STEVE JOBS IS DEAD!

Yes everyone Steve Jobs is dead! I hate to admit it, but it's true.

It was expected to happen at some point. All living things must meet their demise one day and Steve Jobs was no exception. Let us remember this pioneer in technology as a great man who inspired many and as a man of his time.
Without Steve Jobs, we may have never attained neat gadgets such as the iPhone/iTouch, iPod, and iPad. Albeit I'm not the biggest fan of the company Apple, I still believe that if it were not for Steve Jobs, the technology we have today would, well, not be as good as it is today.

Link to a Yahoo! article on the topic.

Discuss.

Also, I'm not sure if this has already been posted or if a post of this has already been made sometime before this was posted (and I'm assuming this is the correct section to post this topic as it pertains to technology). If so, I'll just delete the thread (if I can). However, I looked around and searched for keywords related to "Steve Job's death" and found nothing so I'm assuming this is the first (and original/serious) post on this grave topic. If there is a topic already made before this, please let me know!

Note: Citation for picture can be found at: www.apple.com

You know... I'm not an apple kind of guy, but, I'm really upset he died... Cancer... You son of a bitch... one of these days, somebody's gonna find a cure for you... Who kills who then cancer?

Never expected the guy to go down so quickly. I've always admired the contributions he has brought to personal electronics. Even though I use windows computers, the iPhone and iPad are probably one of the coolest things I've seen.

The World has lost a visionary today.

Oh man I hope Apple dies as well.

Killed by Pancreatic cancer? I guess you could say that PC *cues sunglasses* killed Steve jobs.

YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Now that I've finally gotten over the shock of today's tragic news, I really want to say to myself that Apple will do just fine without Steve just because Tim is the one he chose, but then I remember that John Sculley was also chosen by Steve…

Steve is not your average CEO, and that's what made Apple not your average company. He is a college dropout. He never finished higher education. Tim on the other hand finished his MBA at Duke and is totally a by-the-books CEO. If you look at the Keynote yesterday and listen to the earning calls, you can really tell that Tim is a man or numbers and economics - and not a man of arts or creative genius.

I know, I know, having artistic sense is not selection criteria for a CEO. However, Apple is a company of liberal arts and creative genius! They're not a regular company. I really want to quote Steve here:



That quote is what defines Apple at its core, and why it's so successful. The music industry sucked, so Steve changed it with iTunes + iPods. They were successful, but Apple under Steve didn't stay still. They changed phones again with the iPhone. After the iPhone sells millions and was still selling millions - BAM, out comes the iPad. No matter how successful Apple got, they never stood still. They moved onto the next wonderful thing.

You know, when Steve left Apple the first time, they were years ahead of the competition. They were looking like a beast. But then what happened? They stood still and Microsoft caught up. Just take a look at what radical new products came out in Sculley's reign. That's right - absolutely nothing. The CEO came in at the best time when Mac OS was years ahead of Windows 1.0 and the company was worth more than Microsoft, but still managed to drive Apple to near bankruptcy in just a few years.

People may think it's absurd that Apple can fall given they are the second most valuable company in the World right now, but they don't realize Apple was in a similar position 15 years ago! When Steve left, Apple WAS looking just like they are today - being years ahead of the competition and being an innovator.

Apple is not a company that makes cheap things. They make expensive things. How do you get people to buy expensive things? By constantly evolving - making sure that your expensive things are DIFFERENT from the cheap replacements. For a company to succeed with such a business model, the man in charge must have phenomenal insight and creativity. John Sculley was a great CEO by normal standards. He did well for Pepsi, but did Pepsi need new products constantly to keep people buying them? No! Trust me, if Sculley became CEO of Apple in 2009 when the iPhone was selling like hotcakes, he wouldn't bother making the iPad because Apple is already doing so great. Not Steve. He just took another gamble and made the iPad. Sculley's mindset is what ruined Apple within a few years.

One thing's for sure. Apple has been led to success by a man without a Bachelor degree. Apple is currently successful because they're constantly innovating and the leader is a man who doesn't sit on his achievements. Tim is radically different to Steve. Tim is a great CEO for normal companies. He has an MBA. He knows his economics. Who does this remind you of - you nailed it: John Sculley.

All I know is, last time Apple was run by a by-the-books CEO like Tim, they almost went bankrupt. It didn't happen overnight because Steve left on such a high note - it happened because they stood still. At this time when Google is so rapidly advancing and innovating, Apple standing still will most certainly kill themselves faster than anyone can imagine.

For Haruhi's sake, I hope I'm wrong and Tim can keep innovating, but let me say one thing - if by 2015, Apple's main product line still only consist of just Macs, iPhone 8 and iPad 6 - they will most certainly die. That's how they almost died 15 years ago.



Does Tim seem like a 'crazy one'? Uhh...nope.

Like him or not, the guy left a huge impact.

and even if you DONT like Apple, gotta hand it to him for creating things that sparked competition.

That man was my arch-nemesis... ):

I used to hate Apple until I realized that all computer companies suck in one way or another.
And he was my nemesis only because I was jelly :/
Although I did find him sort of creepy during the iPad conference. That was the day that I claimed him to be my arch-nemesis

EDIT: And without him, I would have never been able to see my favorite Pixar movie, Toy Story

Lets not forget that he was the main financial contributor to Pixar, so we also have those movie to thank him for

Thread title and first sentence makes it sounds like you enjoyed his death.. *sigh*

R.I.P. Steve Jobs.

He wasn't the contributor. He owned Pixar.

He mostly just funded them though, he wasn't really involved with the company

Never Expecting.... My Heart just stopped... It's feels like there is a death in my family

damn it... I want to cry..

I agree. I'm mainly a Windows user as well but that doesn't stop me from admiring the cool things the iPhone/iTouch and iPad had to offer. I wonder where Apple will do now that their *previous* CEO is gone.



It does doesn't it? Whoops.
But after that it's just what I felt about the situation.




GOOD JOB! You made me laugh a bit.

I never really cared...

EDIT: Looks like I popped a nerve of a homosexual stevejobs lover

Leave him alone faggots. I hope your precious Bill Gates dies too.
Sony > Microshit.
Apple > Microshit

RIP Steve Jobs

Hopefully Apple doesn't go down with him

I personally don't like Apple products except the ipods. I also did not like Steve/Apple because
1. He's a dick
2. Apple policy of restriction/secrecy is ridiculous and just plain outright wrong.
3. They think they're the shit.
4. Apple fans think they're the shit.
5. Over prices their shit and tweaks their products every year with claim of "All-new, revolutionary, buy-this-even-though-you-have-the-same-item sceme"
6. They're almost always incompatible with the rest of the world (technology wise).

I will admit this. I shouted hallelujah when i heard he died. Then i realized that was immoral and a total dick move and regretted i said that. But he's still a dick nonetheless.

doesn't matter if the man was a dick, he was a great inventor. He basically reinvented the computer. He was a smart "dick" by overpricing his shit because he knew people would buy it. People buy their overpriced shit and keep buying it and loving it. Their designs & the hype will keep them running strong for a long while.

personally i think we lost a great inventor and I'm curious to see how apple is going to run from now on.

RIP apple will do just fine without Job, he never invent anything by himself anyway.