OFFICIAL from APPLE.com | Steve Jobs 1955-2011

[Persius]

http://www.apple.com/

For those who keep saying it's Fake...

[Intrinsic]

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[NETbilling]

Sucks - what a visionary he was

[digitaldivas]

RIP Steve Jobs. I got my first mac 6400 in 1997 and never looked back. Since then, I have learned how to repair them, modify the operating systems and ...yeah. I felt like I knew him, or at least his genius in designing ridiculously beautiful modern PC architecture systems. You will be missed!

[Tofu]

Damn.

[INDY500DRIVER]

As far as inventors and innovators.. I think he probably was the Thomas Edison of the last 60+ years.. No one else really did anything that amazing.. I mean, his ideas have all but been a revolution.. and im still using windows and blackberrys but man.. just the iPod alone..

Worth a major mention.. Dont think there will be anyone like him ever again..

[AsianDivaGirlsWebDude]

Steve Jobs RIP...

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[bronco67]

Apple has a ton of momentum, and will go on just fine -- but there's a spark that will be missing, and can't be replaced.

[2MuchMark]

Sad day - he was really young - only 56.

[livexxx]

Thomas Edison
1000+ patents
phonograph
Kinetophone
Zoopraxiscope
first motion picture
incandescent light bulbs
carbon microphone
flouroscope (xray improvement)
stock ticker
electric trains

Steve Jobs
a PC but prettier and a phone with a screen.
however thats not to say it was a revolution in adapting existing tech to become something more than just technology. Aka the ipod, nothing new, but with the leasing of the MP3 track identifier it made ripping your CD's to Mp3 worthwhile so you could read them as a title, instead of just a number. technology and merging UI and that kind of thing, well worth a mention

[Persius]

Originally Posted by AsianDivaGirlsWebDude

Steve Jobs RIP...

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[porno jew]

Originally Posted by INDY500DRIVER

As far as inventors and innovators.. I think he probably was the Thomas Edison of the last 60+ years.. No one else really did anything that amazing.. I mean, his ideas have all but been a revolution.. and im still using windows and blackberrys but man.. just the iPod alone..

Worth a major mention.. Dont think there will be anyone like him ever again..

churning out trendy techno-junk that will be forgotten over the decade does not a edison make.

[GatorB]

Guy made overpriced stuff with propreitary crap in them. No thank. Hopefully in a few years that stupid attitude will change. THEN maybe I'll buy an Apple product.

[PastorSinAlot]

This is so sad

[RyuLion]

RIP Steve, a good man.

[CaptainHowdy]

So long, stranger ...

[Bladewire]

RIP Steve

[ruff]

Originally Posted by GatorB

Guy made overpriced stuff with propreitary crap in them. No thank. Hopefully in a few years that stupid attitude will change. THEN maybe I'll buy an Apple product.

I would imagine, given the corporate mentality, that you will see just that. Probably sooner than a few years. They will drop the prices of computers and open their system to select vendors. It's the capitalist desire for short term profits and destructive behavior. Now that Jobs is gone, Apple is wide open.

[GatorB]

Originally Posted by ruff

I would imagine, given the corporate mentality, that you will see just that. Probably sooner than a few years. They will drop the prices of computers and open their system to select vendors. It's the capitalist desire for short term profits and destructive behavior. Now that Jobs is gone, Apple is wide open.

Good. Maybe no more $50 for "special" Apple adapters when everyone else uses the same $10 ones. Bad enough they charge a 200% premium on their products to begin with.

[AsianDivaGirlsWebDude]

My neighbor, Steve Jobs, has been in the news lately.

The talk of the town is the recent announcement he will be stepping aside to let other seeds grow at Apple. The business press, the general press, the blogosphere, and just about everybody else has waxed poetic about the ?greatest CEO of all time? saying that this ?boy wonder? has shaped the very nature of our lives with his genius.

It?s all true, but here in Palo Alto, Steve Jobs isn?t just an icon, he?s also the guy who lives down the street.

I first met Steve (does anyone call him Mr. Jobs anymore?) years ago at a backyard pool party. I was so flummoxed by the off chance I was breathing in his DNA, I could barely say a word. I am sure I made a winning first impression as I stumbled over my own name when we were introduced.

I watched as he swam in the pool with his son. He seemed like a regular guy, a good dad having fun with his kids.

The next time I met him was when our children attended school together. He sat in on back-to-school night listening to the teacher drone on about the value of education (wait, isn?t he one of those high-tech gods who didn?t even graduate from college?) while the rest of us sat around pretending having Steve Jobs in the room was totally normal.

Not long after, I saw Steve as I was running in our neighborhood. He was deep in conversation with a younger version of himself?his very own mini-me in jeans, black T-shirt, and wire-rimmed glasses. I must have looked like an idiot as I tripped over a crack in the pavement trying to give them wide berth.

It was at Halloween not long after when I realized he actually knew my name (yes, my name!). He and his wife put on a darn scary haunted house (to be specific, a haunted garden). He was sitting on the walkway, dressed like Frankenstein. As I walked by with my son, Steve smiled and said, ?Hi Lisen.? My son thought I was the coolest mom in town when he realized The Steve Jobs knew me.

Thanks for the coolness points, Steve.

From then on, when I saw him holding his executive meetings in our neighborhood, I didn?t hesitate to smile and say hi. Steve always returned the favor, proving he may be a genius, but he is also a good neighbor.

In time, things changed. The walks were less frequent, the gait slower, the smile not so ready. Earlier this year, when I saw Steve and his wife walking down our street holding hands, I knew something was different. Now, so does the rest of the world.

While Newsweek and the Wall Street Journal and CNET continue to drone on about the impact of the Steve Jobs era, I won?t be pondering the MacBook Air I write on or the iPhone I talk on. I will think of the day I saw him at his son?s high school graduation.

There Steve stood, tears streaming down his cheeks, his smile wide and proud, as his son received his diploma and walked on into his own bright future, leaving behind a good man and a good father who can be sure of the rightness of this, perhaps his most important legacy of all.

Jobs quotes:

"It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them."

[BusinessWeek, May 25, 1998]

"Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?"

[The line he used to lure John Sculley into becoming Apple's CEO, according to Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple]

?That?s been one of my mantras -- focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it?s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.?

[BusinessWeek, May 25, 1998]

"This is not a one-man show. What?s reinvigorating this company is two things: One, there?s a lot of really talented people in this company who listened to the world tell them they were losers for a couple of years, and some of them were on the verge of starting to believe it themselves. But they?re not losers. What they didn?t have was a good set of coaches, a good plan. A good senior management team. But they have that now.?

[BusinessWeek, May 25, 1998]

?You can?t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something ? your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.?

[Stanford commencement speech, June 2005]

?Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. 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. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don?t settle.?

[Stanford commencement speech, June 2005]

?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."

[Stanford commencement speech, June 2005]

?Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn?t matter to me ? Going to bed at night saying we?ve done something wonderful? that?s what matters to me.?

[The Wall Street Journal, May 25, 1993]

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[digitalfantasies]

gotta have a lot of respect for the man... RIP

[Barry-xlovecam]

Only 56 ... Robbed of a full life ... RIP


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[AsianDivaGirlsWebDude]

Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam

Only 56 ... Robbed of a full life ... RIP


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A full life, well spent...

Some interesting insights:





Peace and Love,

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[D Ghost]

RIP Steve

[AsianDivaGirlsWebDude]

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt:

Today is very sad for all of us. Steve defined a generation of style and technology that?s unlikely to be matched again. Steve was so charismatically brilliant that he inspired people to do the impossible, and he will be remembered as the greatest computer innovator in history.

Disney CEO Bob Iger:

Steve Jobs was a great friend as well as a trusted advisor. His legacy will extend far beyond the products he created or the businesses he built. It will be the millions of people he inspired, the lives he changed, and the culture he defined. Steve was such an ?original,? with a thoroughly creative, imaginative mind that defined an era.

Despite all he accomplished, it feels like he was just getting started. With his passing the world has lost a rare original, Disney has lost a member of our family, and I have lost a great friend. Our thoughts and prayers are with his wife Laurene and his children during this difficult time.

Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes:

The entire Time Warner family mourns the loss of Steve Jobs. The world is a better place because of Steve, and the stories our company tells have been made richer by the products he created. He was a dynamic and fearless competitor, collaborator, and friend.. In a society that has seen incredible technological innovation during our lifetimes, Steve may be the one true icon whose legacy will be remembered for a thousand years.

RIAA CEO Cary Sherman:

Like all music fans, we are saddened to hear of the passing of Steve Jobs. Steve was a larger-than-life personality ? passionate about music and one of its biggest fans and advocates. He was a true visionary who forever transformed how fans access and enjoy music. With the introduction of the iTunes software and other platforms, Steve and Apple made it once again easy and accepted to pay for music. His legacy will live on, long past his all-too-short time on earth.

New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg:

Tonight, America lost a genius who will be remembered with Edison and Einstein, and whose ideas will shape the world for generations to come. Again and again over the last four decades, Steve Jobs saw the future and brought it to life long before most people could even see the horizon. And Steve?s passionate belief in the power of technology to transform the way we live brought us more than smart phones and iPads: it brought knowledge and power that is reshaping the face of civilization.

In New York City?s government, everyone from street construction inspectors to NYPD detectives have harnessed Apple?s products to do their jobs more efficiently and intuitively. Tonight our City ? a city that has always had such respect and admiration for creative genius ? joins with people around the planet in remembering a great man and keeping Laurene and the rest of the Jobs family in our thoughts and prayers.

Former Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz:

It?s the ultimate sadness?He was a very special person, and he didn?t get to where he was by having people like him all the time. He got to where he was because he had a vision and a purpose. It?s easy to try and please everyone, but he kept to his principles.

Think Different:

Over the 25 years Jobs worked at Apple, the company was an extension of himself and his vision for computing, industrial design, and a digital lifestyle.

Jobs more lasting legacy will be his impact on disrupting entire industires, bringing the music business kicking and screaming into the 21st century and transforming the mobile device landscape.

He was not an inventor in the classic sense, tinkering with program code to create the Worldwide Web or tinfoil to reproduce sounds on a phonograph.

Jobs was more of an orchestral conductor, charismatic and dictatorial, assembling the people and pieces of existing and emerging technology to craft an object of desire that reflected his personal aesthetic and vision for how people and machines should interact.

It was an expression of American individualism, buoyed by the kind of self-confidence that insists on pursuing a personal vision regardless of the risk.

Steve Jobs thought different. In his time on earth he pursued with intense focus his vision to create ?insanely great? products for what he called ?mere mortals.? He changed the world and pushed the human race forward.

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[AsianDivaGirlsWebDude]

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[Avalana]

Rest in peace little bird

[seeandsee]

Thanks for ipods steve, i love them !!! rip

[Crystal Scripts]

RIP. He was young, only 56