RIP Steve Jobs

[johnny h]

True genius. Imagine how awful computers / mp3 players / phones / tablets would still be without his amazing vision and focus.

It seemed obvious he was very close to the end when he quit Apple, but its still a shock.

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[Gary M]

today is a very sad day! RIP Steve (Genius) Jobs.

[Frisonic]

I just opened a similar thread in the musicians lounge before I saw this one. Said all I want to say there. Very sad day. He hardly had any retirement at all. RIP

[hollowsun]

Sad. I am shocked and saddened and my thoughts are with his family at their loss. I thought he was kind of ok.

Please don't let this thread descend into a vehicle for ignorant h8rz to bollock on about him rotting in hell and all that crap.

He was a visionary. So he may have 'borrowed' some technologies but he made them work, made them happen, made them practical and usable (well, not him personally perhaps but you get the gist) ... and then people copied his (or Apples') implementations.

Farewell Steve and thanks for everything. I'd liked to have met you for a chat.

[. . . Delete This User . . .]

Ditto Steve, saddened by the news.

, and i think you can assume short shrift will be given to abusive posts...

[Tui]

Incredible. He worked until the very last minute but didn't let on about his true condition. RIP.

[MarcusH]

Indeed. Quite a man. I thought the Apple statement put it rather well:

"Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being. … Steve leaves behind a company that only he could have built, and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple."

I wonder if his spirit will live-on in Apple.

[hollowsun]

and i think you can assume short shrift will be given to abusive posts...

I hope so.

And when I said "I thought he was kind of ok", I meant his condition with the cancer not his character or personality. He inspired me. Especially this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc

He broke rules of convention

56 - too young.

So much to thank him for (and that's before you get into Pixar and all that).

[Aftertouch]

Very sad day. He hardly had any retirement at all. RIP

Inspired people like him never retire. It wouldn't surprise me if he was watching the new iPhone launch.

Glad to see fellow technologists, including business 'rivals' paying their respects: Bill Gates, Google (home page), Microsoft (home page).

[ryan mead]

sigh

[Richie Royale]

Very sad day. He wasn't very old either. I'm sure Apple will continue to tread new ground, but this may hold up a few things, as I'm sure many of the staff will be affected by this for more than a few weeks.

[The Elf]

A courageous man with so many reasons to live a longer life. A sad loss.

[Chevytraveller]

a Sad loss indeed..
with such massive influencing products such as the Mac, the iPod and the iPhone it's easy to forget the contribution to cinema he made through the creation of Pixar..

I really don't want to think of a world without "Monsters Inc", "Wall-E" or "Up" in it...

Pixar Tribute

[ConcertinaChap]

The original Apple logo:-



Indeed, rest in peace.

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[Dave Gate]

56 is far too young to go. I hope that there was no suffering.

[muzines]

Sad day.

[themn]

A very sad day.

RIP.

[ken long]

Peace be with you, Steve.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTvruYaOsxM&feature=related

[OneWorld]

a Sad loss indeed..
with such massive influencing products such as the Mac, the iPod and the iPhone it's easy to forget the contribution to cinema he made through the creation of Pixar..

I really don't want to think of a world without "Monsters Inc", "Wall-E" or "Up" in it...

Pixar Tribute

I hadn't realised he was influential in Pixar as well. "Wall-E" is on my favourite films list. It even made an old curmudgeon like me who was weaned on a pickle smile!

Steve Jobs achieved the impossible, he managed to make being a geek cool. A profound influence..MichaelAngelo, Beethoven, Shakespeare, Jobs?

[Rob Taylor]

Steve Jobs achieved the impossible, he managed to make being a geek cool. A profound influence..MichaelAngelo, Beethoven, Shakespeare, Jobs?

I think that's appropriate.

[MarcusH]

Steve Jobs achieved the impossible, he managed to make being a geek cool. A profound influence.. MichaelAngelo, Beethoven, Shakespeare, Jobs?

Yes. My definition of genius is someone after whom nothing was ever the same - people like: da Vinci, Paganini, Newton, Darwin and Einstein. And Jobs certainly was a genius by that measure.

[The Red Bladder]

Jobs' true genius was as a business strategist. The way he turned Apple around is studied all over the World as a master class in how to rescue a failing company that has lost its way and lost focus.

He stripped the company down to just two basic products, a PC and a laptop, dumped all the peripheral nonsense (printers, scanners, screens etc etc etc) and fired all the useless bods that just wanted to pursue their pet schemes. He also got rid of all the wholesalers and other middlemen and closed down the factory and got Macs built in Taiwan only. He dumped silly new ideas that please engineers, but nobody else (new opperating systems for example) and generally cut Apple back to a core (haha) that was a new lean, mean machine that sold Macs directly to the public. He also got Gates to invest $150m which helped MS to fend off attacks on their monopoly position from the Federal Government.

Until Jobs came back, Apple had 15, yes - 15!!! different models and two levels of distribution. As a result, it was bleeding money and was just a couple of months away from insolvency. Within a year, he had Apple turning a healthy profit.

His roll-out of the iPod, iPhone and iPad are also masterclass material - a vision, focus groups, style and design, all followed by a tightly focused product launch. Just about every pro-audio manufacturer out there could learn valuable lessons from what Jobs did and how he did it.

[Guy Johnson]

Goodbye, Mr Jobs.

[narcoman]

a Sad loss indeed..
with such massive influencing products such as the Mac, the iPod and the iPhone it's easy to forget the contribution to cinema he made through the creation of Pixar..

Indeed, although it was Lucasfilm who started Pixar. Bought from them in '86.

SJ's death is very sad. More positively, he showed how you didn't have to give up when knocked back through brutal illness; he was a huge inspiration to my best mate (fighting cancer) to carry on and still try to realise ambitions. If nothing else - that is a great message to bring forth.

[brucie]

RIP Steve

I whole heartedly agree with all that has been said about Apple and how he was an amazing entrepreneur, but what stands out to me about Steve Jobs was his views about life itself. I think we can all take a lot from his words and apply them to our own lives and for me that is the Jobs I will remember.

I think this sums up perfectly what I mean, and I personally take a lot from these words

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA

Peace

Neil