How different would things be if Steve Jobs were still alive?

[Tozovac]

Because Steve Jobs would have *never* dumped industry standards for what he saw the future of technology.

As much as none of us could ever accurately predict 100% what Steve would have done: Speaking of dumping industry standards, who thinks Steve would have ok’d dumping Apple’s world-class UI for ios 7-11’s UI? Or the elimination of lickable buttons for the amateur-hour buttons of Yosemite. Anyone?

 

[0000757]

As much as none of us could ever accurately predict 100% what Steve would have done: Speaking of dumping industry standards, who thinks Steve would have ok’d dumping Apple’s world-class UI for ios 7-11’s UI? Or the elimination of lickable buttons for the amateur-hour buttons of Yosemite. Anyone?

Too bad you didn’t read the rest of my post...

 

[throAU]

Never said he was a perfect human being that made no bad or wrong decisions.... All I am saying is that Apple had a direction under Steve Jobs and devices were released a bit more finalized and not in prototype form like the iPhone X... No new breakthrough devices have come from Apple that Steve Jobs was not a part of. Apple as it exists today has no direction and no vision for the future. They are currently only concerned with tweaking their products and maximizing their profits.

steve was an unpleasant, uncompromising person to deal with.

this is why the bar for quality was so high.

i think apple has too many yes men in it at the moment.

steve made both good and bad decisions but at least he tried to push things and be daring.

apple right now is trying to play it safe and just fiddling with things.

the need to get an AR wearable headset type device out yesterday before microsoft eats their lunch.

 

[Tozovac]

Too bad you didn’t read the rest of my post...

Sure I did. Steve dumped industry standards like optical drives on laptops, mp3 players that were generally small-capacity (because who wants to pay $400+ for a music player), sub-retina resolution on laptops...

All are things that, if you think honestly about, are just things in-between the user and, ultimately, the content.

Without a doubt...absolutely maybe likely...I know, I think, I believe, I'd be rather shocked otherwise if.....he'd have OK'd all the stripping out of the content and dumbing-down of the user experience via the crap unintuitive UI reinvention of iOS7 that's unfortunately bled over into OSX, websites, and windows apps which turned into lemming copies of iOS's blue/white flat round-circle buttonless theme. Steve would not have ok'd iOS7, this I think I know for an absolute opinionated fact. Nor let his lickable buttons get stripped away and replaced with the amateurish, uninspiring stop lights in OSX today.

 

[0000757]

this I think I know for an absolute opinionated fact.

This sentence is an absolute roller-coaster.

 

[KingslayerG5]

Jobs had vision and was a charismatic leader. Cook, Schiller, and Ive all lack those traits.

With that said, it wouldn't be peaches and roses with Steve. He was a dictator. He would rule Apple like the Mad King. His Macintosh nearly sinked Apple the first time.

SJ wasn't perfect by any means and wasn't the ideal co-worker or boss to deal with. SJ was a control-freak and would rule Apple with an iron fist like Hiroshi Yamauchi did for Nintendo for decades.

This probably didn't happen or at least exactly this way but it was the only good scene from the movie...

 

[Tech198]

He'd be a very, very, old man right about now

It would be tough to predict, since you can only gauge on the path up till now... The direction can always change at any time..

 

[Newton’s Apple]

Steve was a great guy. I miss him alot. Sometimes I wonder where Apple would be today if he was still alive.

 

[hajime]

Steve was a great guy. I miss him alot. Sometimes I wonder where Apple would be today if he was still alive.

If he were still alive, perhaps lots of happy customers who want the best and the latest and perhaps also some unhappy money-driven board members?

 

[Gathomblipoob]

If he were still alive, perhaps lots of happy customers who want the best and the latest and perhaps also some unhappy money-driven board members?

Yeah. Steve hated money.

 

[hajime]

Yeah. Steve hated money.

My friend met him at a bar at Stanford about 30 years ago.

 

[Gathomblipoob]

My friend met him at a bar at Stanford about 30 years ago.

I've met Steven Spielberg. That doesn't make me E.T.