Steve Jobs 1955-2011

[xeus]

http://www.apple.com/stevejobs/

[Jumpy]

What the #¥<{?

[GuyFawkes38]

what a fascinating life.

It feels like just yesterday when Jobs was known as the brilliant but tragic visionary who fell to Bill Gates and Microsoft. He had an incredible, mind-boggling comeback.

[Jumpy]

He was the living embodiment of the saying "where there's a will, there's a way." He took his singular idea of what Apple should be and built the most influential company today.

[xeus]

Not sure which was bigger, his brains or his balls. Incredible man, incredible story.

[X-band '01]

We've seen 2 icons pass away today - Jobs and the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth.

Cincinnati Enquirer remembers Rev. Shuttlesworth (http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20111005/NEWS01/111005023/Rev-Fred-Shuttlesworth-dies?odyssey=tab|topnews|img|FRONTPAGE)

They're both incredible stories in that technology and civil rights wouldn't be the same without their accomplishments.

[nkymuskie]

We've seen 2 icons pass away today - Jobs and the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth.

Cincinnati Enquirer remembers Rev. Shuttlesworth (http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20111005/NEWS01/111005023/Rev-Fred-Shuttlesworth-dies?odyssey=tab|topnews|img|FRONTPAGE)

They're both incredible stories in that technology and civil rights wouldn't be the same without their accomplishments.

Whose gonna fill the last spot to complete the rule of threes

[Muskie]

I am not a MAC user, but no one can ignore the tremendous contributions Steve Jobs made to technology. His genius will be sorely missed.

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[xu95]

It seems everything I own technology wise was made by Apple. Steve Jobs is a genius and will be missed.

xu95

[Porkopolis]

I was a convert to Apple products in the late 90s and Steve Jobs is the primary reason. His vision of how new technology could integrate into our lives was game changing. Seemingly every new idea he had seemed ridiculous and almost pointless; several years later you had trouble remembering what life was like before. Only a handful of people have had the impact on technology that he did. He will be missed but hopefully Apple, Pixar and all the other organizations he touched will continue his legacy.

[xu95]

I remember reading an article about the original founder of Atari. Steve Jobs started out as a game programmer for Atari. This article said that Atari had to create a night shift just for him because he was rubbing all of the other programmers the wrong way.

xu95

[blobfan]

When Lady Di and Michael Jackson and other celebrities of that caliber passed I'd see people crying on TV, leaving flowers and Teddy Bears at their residences. I always thought it was a little nuts. But when I heard he passed, for a moment that's what I wanted to do: shed a tear and leave a rainbow bouquet at the door of Apple's Cupertino HQ. I own so many Mac products, stock, and have followed company news for years as if it was its own form of entertainment. Steve Jobs was iconic.

It's interesting that Fred Shuttlesworth passed on the same day. One commentator said he was too direct and abrasive to have quite the following of MLK but was at least as important to the Civil Rights movement. We lost 2 men who. like them or not, greatly affected our lives. I pray their families find peace and their legacies live on.

[Jumpy]

I have the day off work today and I had planned on going to the Apple store in Kenwood to get a new bumper for my phone before I had even heard the news last night. When we got there this morning, there were a ton of flowers sitting in the front window and the staff and patrons alike were visibly upset. It really hit home then how many lives the man touched because, like many of us on this thread, his vision transformed technology and in turn transformed our lives.

I remember when I first got an iPhone. Before I had it, I couldn't really understand the near cult-like attitude of iPhone users. Once I did get one, it wasn't long before I it was hard for me to remember how I ever survived without one. This one little device was an everything gadget- all in my pocket. A phone, a gps, an mp3 player, a computer that had the answer to any question I've ever had just a few clicks away no matter where I was. And it worked flawlessly and intuitively. All because Steve Jobs knew there was a better way.

[SixFig]

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This belongs in the bacon thread