Steve Jobs has died.

[Joborule]

RIP to Steve Jobs. A Great person in the technology industry he was.

As said in this thread already, F*** cancer.

[browna]

It will be interesting to see the longer term "next big thing" from Apple. The Iphone will continue to get marginally better and keep up with the pack in the smartphone world. Ipad, same thing, it will get updates with probably things like 3D in a few years etc, but what's the next big idea for 5-10 years down the the road that Jobs had in his mind to be the next game changer?

I am sure Jobs did a brain dump of his ideas and patent worthy inventions that may provide a basis for Apple to continue to grow in the short term over the past years since his sickness, but will his more innovative and borderline whacky ideas (for 2011) (as I am sure out of every 10 brilliant ones he had, like most inventors, 2 or 3 saw the light of day, at most) and thoughts come to life? With someone else having to move them from "on a napkin" idea stage into implementation stage, and given Jobs' sense for timing and what the market is ready for, and the need to presented/sold in such a way that the are picked up and R&D poured into to make them a reality, is hard to visualize that happening with him not at the controls to push it through and get all the details in an OCD manner as he seemed to go about in his work.

[megatron]

Still going through all the news/reactions from the tech giants.

The world lost one of the truly creative and innovative visionaries today.

RIP Steve.

[FlameOn]

Originally Posted by browna

It will be interesting to see the longer term "next big thing" from Apple. The Iphone will continue to get marginally better and keep up with the pack in the smartphone world. Ipad, same thing, it will get updates with probably things like 3D in a few years etc, but what's the next big idea for 5-10 years down the the road that Jobs had in his mind to be the next game changer?

I am sure Jobs did a brain dump of his ideas and patent worthy inventions that may provide a basis for Apple to continue to grow in the short term over the past years since his sickness, but will his more innovative and borderline whacky ideas (for 2011) (as I am sure out of every 10 brilliant ones he had, like most inventors, 2 or 3 saw the light of day, at most) and thoughts come to life? With someone else having to move them from "on a napkin" idea stage into implementation stage, and given Jobs' sense for timing and what the market is ready for, and the need to presented/sold in such a way that the are picked up and R&D poured into to make them a reality, is hard to visualize that happening with him not at the controls to push it through and get all the details in an OCD manner as he seemed to go about in his work.

One thing for sure is Jobs was a visionary and a genius at coming up with crazy ideas. He had the willpower and OCD to make sure things were done right. Question is, does Tim Cook have what it takes to continue leading the company the way Jobs did? Or are we going to see an end to that type of innovation and gradual decline of Apple like in the 80s? Time will tell. The guy was a huge force for the tech industry. His ideas will be missed.

RIP Steve Jobs.

[browna]

Originally Posted by FlameOn

One thing for sure is Jobs was a visionary and a genius at coming up with crazy ideas. He had the willpower and OCD to make sure things were done right. Question is, does Tim Cook have what it takes to continue leading the company the way Jobs did? Or are we going to see an end to that type of innovation and gradual decline of Apple like in the 80s? Time will tell. The guy was a huge force for the tech industry. His ideas will be missed.

RIP Steve Jobs.

Yeah, I think Tim Cook's tenure for the next decade should be ok from a business perspective, barring a major messup or tech fallout (not the best comparo, but look at RIM in the past 2 years to see how quickly things can turn stale business wise and thus perception wise, with no real fault other then "not fast enough innovation"). The success over the last decade since the Ipod was introduced, should be able to carry Apple forward as a profitable business, assuming its managed reasonably. The products out there will get better year by year and the cache the brand has and theat Jobs had built into the product, should continue to sell exsisting products to the masses as the years go on thanks to that cache, at least for the foreseeable future.

But with the Ipod in 2001, Iphone in 2006, and Ipad in 2010 as the main pieces to Apple's success, is there going to be somethig in 2015 that will be the next big thing that couldn't be predicted today as being as widely adopted? And if not, does that spell the slow decline of the brand over the preceding decade? Jobs attention to detail from picking out such innane things as materials to be used at the counters in Apple Stores, to the ideas shown off in all his patents, makes Apple is what it is today.

[puckluck]

Damn this is a huge loss. He was truly a great person. I fricken hate cancer.

[Hack&Lube]

Just like how two people may not agree on what makes good art; while I never agreed with his tastes and some of his actions and statements, I have to admit that I admire and aspire to his philosophy in almost every single way.

Originally Posted by Steve Jobs on life and death

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

...

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960′s, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors and Polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: “Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.” It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Thank you all very much.

It's a rare man who can take that philosophy and run away with it, and live it out to it's fullest every day without compromise. Reading his past writings and watching his prophetic statements he has made at various points of his career on Youtube, I find I admire the man much more than I ever did before and that I am very much encouraged and also shamed in the way that I am not making the most of my time.

[Timbo]

RIP Steve Jobs. History will remember you well.

[Hack&Lube]

When Steve Jobs was 12, he phoned Walter Hewlett - you know, the founder of Hewlett Packard and had a 20 minute conversation with him and subsequently got hired for a summer job by HP.

What were you doing at 12?

[MrMastodonFarm]

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

When Steve Jobs was 12, he phoned Walter Hewlett - you know, the founder of Hewlett Packard and had a 20 minute conversation with him and subsequently got hired for a summer job by HP.

What were you doing at 12?

Dicky Dee.

So... similar story.

[oilyfan]

Steve will be remembered not for making great products, because some may disagree, but for having brilliant ideas. He gambled almost everything to bring those ideas to life, that is what I appreciate.

Rest in Peace Steve, you have much to be proud of

[Barnes]

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

When Steve Jobs was 12, he phoned Walter Hewlett - you know, the founder of Hewlett Packard and had a 20 minute conversation with him and subsequently got hired for a summer job by HP.

What were you doing at 12?

Worked for the Montreal Expos. They moved. Not entirely my fault.

[Coys1882]

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

What were you doing at 12?

Probably something along the lines of trying to or trying not to get a boner.

[Canada 02]

CNBC Titans

http://www.hulu.com/watch/286110/cnbc-titans-steve-jobs

http://www.cnbc.com/id/43298711

[SHOGUN]

Rip.





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[saskflames69]

Originally Posted by Bertuzzied

What a dick thing to say.

Yeah, I know. RIP

[Nammer403]

RIP Steve Jobs

[afc wimbledon]

Originally Posted by Coys1882

Probably something along the lines of trying to or trying not to get a boner.

Yes, I remember 12 was mostly boners, well 12 through 45 really

[FlamesAddiction]

I can't believe that the Westborough Church is planning to picket his funeral. They must need the publicity or something.

[underGRADFlame]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

I can't believe that the Westborough Church is planning to picket his funeral. They must need the publicity or something.

What in god's name are they picketing about? He was an inventor and a salesman, whats so un-godly about that?