Apple co-founder Steve Jobs has died

Farewell we are better because of you.

 

He should have had more time... for that I am sad.

 

A very sad day!

 

He will be missed.

 

amazing legacy. edison, ford, jobs. one of the great ones. a very sad day, indeed.

 

The only apples I ever bought had stems on them, however (comma!) even an unwashed luddite like myself would have to acknowledge that he left a wide and very positive mark.

So long Steve!
Rest Well.

 

As I read this sad news from my imac, his impact on me is right in front of me.

 

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.

R.I.P. Steve.

 

Hopefully the dream he created will carry on as he would have wanted it to. His insight was phenomenal, we use his dreams everyday. What a way to leave a positive mark on the planet!

 

Steve Jobs influence was beyond this world.


Bill Gates died and, much to everyone's surprise, went to Heaven.

When he got there, he had to wait in the reception area, which was about the size of Massachusetts. There were millions of people living

in tents. Food and water were being distributed from the backs of trucks, while staffers with clipboards slowly worked their way through the crowd.

Bill lived in a tent for three weeks until, finally, a staffer in his late teens approached him. The young man was wearing a blue T-shirt with the words TEAM PETER emblazoned on it in large yellow letters.

"Hello," said the staffer in a bored voice. "My name is Gabriel and I'll be your induction coordinator."

Bill started to ask a question, but Gabriel interrupted him.


"No, I'm not the Archangel Gabriel. I'm a guy from Philadelphia named Gabriel who died in a car wreck at 17. Now give me your name, last name first, unless you were Chinese, in which case it's first name first."

"Gates, Bill."

Gabriel started searching through the sheaf of papers on his clipboard, looking for Bill's Record of Earthly Works.

"What's going on here?" asked Bill. "Why are all these people here? Where's St. Peter? Where are the pearly gates?"

Gabriel ignored the questions until he located Bill's records. "It says here that you were the president of a large software company. Is that right?"

"Yes."

"Well do the math! When this St. Peter business started, it was easy. Only a hundred or so people died every day, and Peter could handle it by himself."

"But now there are over seven billion people on earth. When God said to 'go forth and multiply,' he didn't say 'like rabbits!' Ten thousand people die every hour, over a quarter-million a day. Do you think Peter can meet them all personally?"

"I guess not."

"You guess right. So he had to franchise the operation. Now, Peter is

the CEO of Team Peter Enterprises, Inc. Franchisees like me handle the actual inductions."

Gabriel looked though his paperwork some more and then continued. "Your paperwork seems to be in order. And with a background like yours, you'll be getting a plum job assignment."

"Job assignment?"

"Of course. Did you expect to spend eternity sitting on your bum and drinking ambrosia? Heaven is a big operation. You have to pull your weight around here!"

Gabriel took out a triplicate form, had Bill sign at the bottom, and then tore out the middle copy and handed it to Bill. "Take this down to induction center no. 23 and meet up with your occupational coordinator. His name is Abraham--and no, he's not that Abraham."

Bill walked to induction center no. 23 and met with Abraham after a mere six-hour wait.

"Heaven is centuries behind in building its data-processing infrastructure," explained Abraham. "As you've seen, we're still doing everything on paper. It takes us a week just to process new entries. Your job will be to supervise Heaven's new data processing center."

"We're building the largest computing facility in creation. Half a million computers connected by a multisegment fiber-optic network, all running into a back-end server network with a thousand CPUs on a gigabit channel. Fault tolerant, distributed processing, the works."

Bill could barely contain his excitement. "Wow! What a great job! This is really Heaven!"

"We're just finishing construction, and we'll be starting operations soon. Would you like to go see the center now?"

"You bet!"

Abraham and Bill caught the shuttle bus and went to Heaven's new data processing center. It was a truly huge facility, a hundred times bigger than the Astrodome. Workers were crawling all over the place, getting the miles of fiber optic cables properly installed.

But the center was dominated by the computers. Half a million computers, arranged nearly row-by-row, half a million...

Macintoshes... all running linux software! All open source! Not a single byte of Microsoft code!

The thought of spending eternity using products he had spent his whole life working to destroy was too much for Bill.

He exclaimed. "What about Windows??? Excel??? Word???"

"You're forgetting something," said Abraham.

"What's that?" asked Bill plaintively.

"This is Heaven," explained Abraham. "If you want to build a data processing center based on PCs running Windows, then you'll have to
GO TO HELL!"

 

Reactions to Steve Jobs' Death

Tribute Video to Steve Jobs

The news has hit me pretty hard today, even though I'm not currently a Mac user but have plenty of iDevices. Somewhat fittingly, I found out about the news on my iPhone 4 via the Facebook iPhone app.

I'm still amazed by his legacy and how much he's changed the world. It's too bad he had to leave us so soon.

RIP

 

Ohh shit!! Steve Jobs passed? holy f... Despite how much I hate Apple products, I am truly and deeply sadden by this news. I am more sadden by his death than Michael Jackson's death. He is the icon of technology. He truly innovated the technology world. Without his out of the box thinking, there wouldn't be any competition from other companies to move the technology forward. Because of the iphone, the smartphone industry has evolved to what it is today. PocketPC series have been stale for 7 years since its introduction until the iPhone hit the scene. iPhone opened up the possibilities of what a smartphone can do. It catapulted the dull user interface to exciting finger friendly and fun and easy to use interface that everyone's copying and improving upon.
Steve Jobs, you were a genius. I know you're up there looking down but please keep your eye on Apple. Make sure they don't f'k up the next iPhone.
:hail: Mr. Steve Jobs
May you rest in peace.

 

Not to take away the man's greatness, we have to remember that he was very much like Edison--Steve Wozniak and others are the ones who were actually the inventors. Jobs was more of the marketer who promoted these new devices. He also gave direction to the company and made his products successful in the marketplace. For that he deserves great credit.

 

Jobs was an innovator. He didn't invent. But he was able to make the things other people invented work better and usually in unexpected ways.

 

I am saddened for his short life.

I am grateful to have been alive this day and to know what changed with his being here has meant to humanity, and how it has impacted and improved my personal moment breathing air.

I am glad his suffering is now over, and he can rest until he returns in another life.

Thank you Steve.
Bob Jr

 

This terrible news makes me remember very clearly 1984 when we graduate students first got our hands on Macs. Compared to mainframe batch-processing and "DOS dross", they were AMAZING.

I cannot think of another innovator who consistently produced AMAZING throughout his career. Hope I am around to see the next one.

“You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers … If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it."

Steve Jobs Commencement speech, Stanford, 2005.

 

Yep. Even many who might've disliked him or his company's products have to give him some credit.

It's pretty amazing that he the vision to start and guide a company to start or change these areas in a big way, for the better: personal computers w/the Apple I and II, the Mac which helped popularize GUIs (since Xerox didn't seem to capitalize on it and was the impetus for Windows), music w/the iPod and iTunes music store, smartphones w/the iPhone and tablets w/the iPad.

His turnaround of the company from near death from previous sub par leadership to being one of the most valuable companies in the world is amazing too.

It is too bad.... imagine what other industries could've been shaken up or started if he were only able to stick around for another 20 or 30 years.