Remembering Steve Jobs, Who Passed Away 12 Years Ago Today

[SactoGuy18]

No man is perfect. Every major business mogul since the rise of Cornelius Vanderbilt had to frequently trample over lesser people to achieve a high level of success. But yet, we all admire Steve Jobs because he literally is the history of Silicon Valley from 1976 up until the time of his passing in 2011. I think long-time management at Apple still miss the presence of Jobs even now.

 

[Macman1138]

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

There has been very little innovation at Apple since Jobs passed away.
The company is run by people bent on The Message.

 

[Mac_The_Ripper]

Never forget.

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

Hopefully people show you the same respect, when you're gone.

 

[citysnaps]

There has been very little innovation at Apple since Jobs passed away.
The company is run by people bent on The Message.

Outside of AR that Apple is pursuing now, what innovative products would you suggest Apple move forward with?

Feel free to list a few.

 

[xxr]

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.

Interesting points, I’d disagree about the timeframe though.

For me, the iPad 3 release in the March following his death seemed disjointed and lacking. From the naming confusion of it (“the new iPad”) to the lack of a distinguishing feature / look, it was the beginning of a very different company.

The iPhone 5 was the first iPhone release I felt truly underwhelmed by, even though by the current standards of Apple, the difference between it and the 4S would be akin to about 3 years in iPhone evolution. I suspect Touch ID was planned for this release but didn’t make it.

It’s easy to forget just how ahead Apple were at the time. Siri in the 4S was actually groundbreaking.

The next and last potentially innovative iPhone feature was 3D Touch in the 6S but seemed poorly implemented and dropped soon after. By that time though iPhones had acquired a camera bump which was a spectacularly bizarre design choice for those familiar with Apple products at the time and it was clear the company was on a very different trajectory

 

[Mr. Dee]

I need to print out that email reply he sent me when I asked him for a free MacBook Air.

 

[LV426]

If only he was still alive :(

If he was still alive, we wouldn't have the Apple Pencil!

 

[floral]

If he was still alive, we wouldn't have the Apple Pencil!

I don't use the Apple Pencil. >:)

 

[Skyscraperfan]

What's interesting is that he did not care about his personal wealth. He did not use stock options that were worth about $10 billion back then. If he had used those options and not died, those options would be worth so much money now, that he might be the world's richest man today. He was already a billionaire and had no desire to become even richer. That is quite exceptional in Silicon Valley.

 

[vertsix]

Greatest commencement address of all time.

 

[Tyler O'Bannon]

Wow, 12 years. That's hard to believe. That dude knew how to make product launches exciting. Some of that had to do with him introducing iPod, iPhone, iPad, and even the MBA was quite a big launch in my opinion. And the unibody design for the MacBook which became MBP. He definitely got to unveil some revolutionary products. He was a showman when it came to product launches for sure.

 

[Any name]

Wow 12 years! Time flies by in life

Next blink of an eye and we’re there too

 

[Realityck]

I think it's wonderful we all can reflect on what Steve Jobs brought to the world today.

"And there may be no greater tribute to Steve’s success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented."

 

[4odomi]

Today marks the 12th anniversary of Apple's co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs passing away at the age of 56, following a cancer diagnosis.

Apple shared the following message on its website when Jobs passed away:Apple still has a "Remembering Steve" page on its website with condolences shared by customers around the world following his death in 2011.

"There is not a day that goes by that we don't think about him," said Apple CEO Tim Cook, during the first media event at Steve Jobs Theater in September 2017.

The Steve Jobs Archive website contains a collection of quotes, videos, and emails from Jobs, and offers fellowships to young creators to follow in Jobs' footsteps.

Article Link: Remembering Steve Jobs, Who Passed Away 12 Years Ago Today

Whatever anyone thought of him, No one can deny he is an Icon. RIP Steve

 

[kemal]

I was on my mother's door stoop when she broke the news to me. I was angry because I knew he waited too long to have the pancreas surgery that would have saved his life.

Thanks for all the cool stuff SJ.

 

[omihek]

I still go back and watch his keynotes from time to time. He still gets me excited about the products he's announcing.

 

[JPMichaels]

Having had somewhat similar medical problems as Steve Jobs had (at least to the detail that was publicly disclosed), I'm still very sad today that he didn't take doctors advice and have the surgery immediately. While I'm not opposed to homeopathic remedies, that type of progressive cancer gives you so little time to make life saving decisions. He chose his route and it saddens me to know that he could have at least lived a lot longer and ran Apple if not even cured. My boyfriend also died of a similar type of cancer, but he did every surgical option they offered him. It gave him 3 more productive years in his life and that alone is something you never forget. So I'm having surgery again and they tell me, with proper diet and changes in habits, it could be totally successful.

I will always miss the Steve Jobs' speed tests, mocking Pentiums. I doubt anyone at Apple will ever do that again.

 

[boswald]

Miss you, Steve. 😢

 

[lee647]

If only he was still alive :(

i wish he was. apple and the iphone just isnt the same anymore in fact i might switch to older iphone for while for that nostalgia feel again

 

[Hank001]

(...)Also, some - not all - of the design decisions today would've not passed Steve, such as the Magic Mouse charging, (...)

What do you consider 'wrong' with putting the lighting port at the bottom of a mouse? It gives you 2 hours lasting charge by just plugging it in while you gt a coffee or something. And if people really take Apple's advice from the Watch and stand for a minute every hour charging that thing wouldn't be any issue at all.

Just imagine what people would do if the port wasn't perpendicular to the device and looked like a wired mouse. People wouldn't unplug it and burn the battery in 3 or so years. Wouldn't be good for the environement and, well, it wouldn't be a wireless mouse anymore.

 

[lee647]

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.

apple died when steve did its a shame i hate the apple events now its just so boring and not creative

 

[MRMSFC]

I didn’t give a **** at the time, being an edgy Apple-hating teenager.

But over time Apple products won me over, and after reading Walter Isaacson’s biography I gained a respect for the man.

I still think the people who say things like “Apple would do x” or “Steve would’ve never done y” are full of **** though. None of us here knew Steve Jobs like a personal friend.

And I do think it’s funny how Steve is considered a revolutionary CEO when his M.O. was just putting out a quality product. Apparently in the United States it’s an incredible concept that making products well is a successful business strategy.

 

[3xBoom]

That unveiling of the first iPhone was a truly magical moment in the history of technology and, arguably, humanity. Glad to have watched that video stream live. On par with Moon landing but much more consequential.

 

[sack_peak]

أَتَأْمُرُونَ ٱلنَّاسَ بِٱلْبِرِّ وَتَنسَوْنَ أَنفُسَكُمْ وَأَنتُمْ تَتْلُونَ ٱلْكِتَٰبَۚ أَفَلَا تَعْقِلُونَ

Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.

I'm not that religious but the sentiment's there about Steve Jobs being a bad boss, bad person and bad father.

I think the only persons that have the right to judge him would be his bio kids, past loves and the people he did business with directly.

Anyone who can afford or not afford his output are just the audience to his performance in life.

 

[2540497]

He really was one of the most influential people in the history of the planet