Remembering Steve Jobs, Who Passed Away 12 Years Ago Today

[ArtOfWarfare]

Certainly an interesting character; a lot can be learned, particularly for me the illustrative influence of unwavering conjecture. His death marked the death of Apple and the birth of a very different company with the same name.

Birth and death are both processes. We like to think of them as occurring instantaneously, but it really doesn't happen that way.

Apple died with Jobs. It took a few years. Tim Cook loves to take credit for the Apple Watch, but it's clearly nonsense (compare the Nano Touch to the Apple Watch - it's quite clear that the Watch is just a next iteration of the Nano). I think the Apple Watch was the last time we saw Job's hands involved in a product. Maybe we could argue M1 has something to do with him - IDK if when Apple got into designing chips for the iPhone if the plan was always to eventually grow them into being chips for the Mac or not, or if that was an original idea that came post-Jobs.

I'd say HomePod has nothing to do with Jobs. I don't think he would have ever released that product. Siri would have either been developed to be useful, or sidelined - he wouldn't have left her as useless as the day he unveiled her and simultaneously made her the sole feature of a product like the HomePod.

 

[syklee26]

If he was alive today, Apple would’ve moved much faster. Apple is just moving too slow today. Every year I looked forward to what Apple would bring to the world when Jobs was at the helm. Not anymore under Cook.

 

[Motawa]

I’m not a blubbering “miss Steve” kind of guy. People pass and that’s a fact of life.

But I gotta tell you, I really miss those keynotes he used to lead because he sure could get me excited about new Apple products. Even the couple that Apple had a hard time going live with. It was really something to hear an auditorium hoot and cheer him on and then for the finale…….

”Oh. One more thing!”

That brought the house down! Loved those words!

Now we watch these cringeworthy forced pre-produced stale toast events that everyone looks like they are miserable videoing.

The life of Apple truly left when Steve did.

amen brother

 

[Mac_The_Ripper]

🐐 CEO, hands down. Miss you Steve. A true legend!

 

[davidf18]

I remember exactly where I was. I was with a friend working from Starbucks which had an overhead TV and heard the news while using my Thinkpad. I still remember that feeling of being stunned.

 

[robertcoogan]

An extraordinarily difficult man, who transformed home computing in ways that Microsoft and others never could.

 

[t0rqx]

Where would we be without this visionary.

Stuck with Vision Pro. Savings on heatsinks and heat pads. Overheating iPhones. Beta OSes. Violent shaking cameras and fake green hues.

 

[Pinkyyy 💜🍎]

RIP Steve. Such a great man. Miss him a lot ❤️

 

[k1121j]

Thankful to have been able to know him. RIP Steve

 

[HiVolt]

If only he was still alive :(

We'd still be using 3.5" screen phones.

 

[Jimbonatius]

Steve had an impact on countless millions of people with the company he made.

 

[Macman1138]

I met him twice whilst in Cupertino for my Apple Engineering training. He was a fascinating man to say the least.
I will always remember him.

 

[vertsix]

If he was alive today, Apple would’ve moved much faster. Apple is just moving too slow today. Every year I looked forward to what Apple would bring to the world when Jobs was at the helm. Not anymore under Cook.

Undoubtedly. Although a lot of the work during the 'Renaissance' was also due to the incredible engineers at the company, Steve spearheaded the vision and made things happen.

Also, some - not all - of the design decisions today would've not passed Steve, such as the Magic Mouse charging, 1st generation Apple Pencil charging, the notch, the Dynamic Island, etc.

 

[Skyscraperfan]

He may have been a visionary, but it was very questionable how he treated the people below him. He behaved very much like Elon Musk behaves today. Imagine Elon Musk also dies from cancer in a few years from now. Will we all forget how rude he treated his staff? Will we just remember him for all the companies he helped to grow?

 

[vertsix]

He may have been a visionary, but it was very questionable how he treated the people below him. He behaved very much like Elon Musk behaves today. Imagine Elon Musk also dies from cancer in a few years from now. Will we all forget how rude he treated his staff? Will we just remember him for all the companies he helped to grow?

Not defending the way he treated his staff (it is unethical), but he did release the best out of his staff. Without his pushes, a lot of the innovations Apple came forth with in the Renaissance would've not happened.

 

[vertsix]

Steve had an impact on countless millions of people with the company he made.

It's crazy how Apple today, 12 years later, is still wholly reliant on a product line he spearheaded: the iPhone.

 

[Spaceboi Scaphandre]

I think what’s most interesting about him was his ability to ride the line between the often opposing interests of the company and of the customers, & more often than not manage to produce output that exceeded both of their expectations rather than end up with a disappointing compromise. As the stories have revealed in the last decade, some of those battles were epic. Pretty dang good at what he did.

This is what I tell people regarding Valve when Valve announces new hardware and not a sequel in a game they wanted. Better to get something unexpected that even you didn't know you wanted.

 

[MrENGLISH]

I remember where I was and what I was doing that day when I found out. The true GOAT. We miss you Steve,

Same for me. Both, when he announced he was stepping down as CEO and when he passed away.

 

[Pinkyyy 💜🍎]

Apple Vision Pro.

“Headphones for the eyes” is actually a brilliant way of marketing it. Jobs had such a talent for this.

Well, it has been confirmed that Apple has been working on the Vision Pro since 2007.. Steve must have been somehow involved with it !

Apple has been working on Vision Pro since the first iPhone launched - 9to5Mac

Vision Pro may only have been announced this year, and go on sale in 2024, but we’ve known for many...

9to5mac.com

 

[HiVolt]

He wasn't the greatest person, as has been discussed many times.

But he was able to lead the vision like no other. It was very evident in the immediate few years after he passed away, that his leadership was missing.

 

[MrGimper]

I often watch one of his events/presentations after watching a recent one, just to remember what it was like when someone was more interested in the technology and customer than the money. Cook has the charisma of something devoid of any charisma.

 

[CPark98]

I was 13 at the time, and I was just sitting on the floor of my living room watching tv with my family and on my iPad 2. I was scrolling through twitter and saw tweets saying that he had passed. I immediately turned on CNN and then in bright yellow, there it was: "Steve Jobs Dead at 56."

 

[Pinkyyy 💜🍎]

I’m not a blubbering “miss Steve” kind of guy. People pass and that’s a fact of life.

But I gotta tell you, I really miss those keynotes he used to lead because he sure could get me excited about new Apple products. Even the couple that Apple had a hard time going live with. It was really something to hear an auditorium hoot and cheer him on and then for the finale…….

”Oh. One more thing!”

That brought the house down! Loved those words!

Now we watch these cringeworthy forced pre-produced stale toast events that everyone looks like they are miserable videoing.

The life of Apple truly left when Steve did.

Exactly ! I miss those keynotes given by him. The way Steve presented the new products and features has always made his keynotes very fun and interesting to watch no matter how long they were. His character, humor, and the One More Thing moments… those were the real golden days ❤️✨

The current pre-recorded keynotes are done in a more professional way, but they just seem overall quite soulless and boring. Especially the most recent event with all those Mother Nature/Carbon Neutral fillers…

 

[Dan From Canada]

He may have been a visionary, but it was very questionable how he treated the people below him. He behaved very much like Elon Musk behaves today. Imagine Elon Musk also dies from cancer in a few years from now. Will we all forget how rude he treated his staff? Will we just remember him for all the companies he helped to grow?

I remember him not having anything to do with his birth father.
To everyone there is a good and a bad side. Jobs is not an exception.

 

[^^BIGMac]

Never forget.

And, “one more thing — you’re holding it wrong”.