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Today marks the one-year anniversary of Steve Jobs’ passing and to commemorate the occasion Apple has updated its website with a video tribute to its late co-founder and CEO. "Remembering Steve" presents a slideshow highlighting some iconic moments and famous quotes from Jobs’ time at Apple, including the launch of the iMac and iPod, which would set the stage for perhaps the greatest turnaround in corporate history.
Along with the two-minute video there’s a letter from Tim Cook, who replaced Jobs as CEO after he stepped down in August 2011, describing Jobs’ death as a sad and difficult time as well as reflecting on how he touched people’s lives: “One of the greatest gifts Steve gave to the world is Apple. No company has ever inspired such creativity or set such high standards for itself. Our values originated from Steve and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple. We share the great privilege and responsibility of carrying his legacy into the future.”
Jobs died at age 56 on October 5, 2011, a day earlier the iPhone 4S was announced, following a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Although some things have changed with Cook at the helm -- Apple paid dividends for the first time in 17 years and has been more open about the labor conditions at its supplier plants in China, to name a couple -- plenty remains the same. And that’s a good thing. Apple is still the most valuable public company in the world, it operates as efficiently as ever, and people are still buying their products in droves.
This week we’ve seen a number of stories commemorating Jobs’ life as the one-year anniversary of his death came closer, including Forbes’ recollection of untold stories from friends and colleagues, and a piece by Wired comparing Jobs with history’s greatest engineers and industrialists Nikola Tesla and Henry Ford.
Whether you are an Apple fan or not, it’s hard to deny Jobs is one of the most iconic leaders in the history of our industry. As the company’s famous ad proclaims regarding the ‘crazy’ ones, “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.”
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"Call me when the quickest way off this planet and into another habitable atmosphere is available, I promise to have a picture of the man/woman next to my bed and kiss it goodnight every night for the rest of my life."
Why wait for a habitable atmosphere?
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There is a very large difference between idolizing and respecting. Not once did I ever say I idolize those people. I hate the Beatles but I respect them. I hate apple, but I respect what they've done. Apple's strategy of making easy to use computers made them a multi-billion dollar company. Facebook was successful because every American seems to have ADHD and can't just do nothing in the 10 second gaps of bordem. Respect is earned, not given. They've earned it. Idolization is given by retards.
Except the problem is, Apple didn't make the computer easier, they just marketed the Macs as such and people were brainwashed into thinking they were. Much like it brainwashed people into thinking it was virus/malware free.
Facebook's failure wasn't its users, it was the fact it was saving user's data and selling it to some company. Also, blaming just Americans for something every country does (read: being stupid) is rather asinine.
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1 person liked this |Except the problem is, Apple didn't make the computer easier, they just marketed the Macs as such and people were brainwashed into thinking they were. Much like it brainwashed people into thinking it was virus/malware free.
Facebook's failure wasn't its users, it was the fact it was saving user's data and selling it to some company. Also, blaming just Americans for something every country does (read: being stupid) is rather asinine.
How feeble-minded does a person have to be to be"brainwashed"? Macs are better at some things, less so at others, I'm not at all keen on Apple in general, but your rabid "Apple is the antichrist" baloney is just wearing!
And if Facebook is a failure, I wouldn't mind sharing in it's awfulness
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And if Facebook is a failure, I wouldn't mind sharing in it's awfulness
Trigger happy mod deleted my post.
Basically, learn to read. We weren't talking about its financial success.
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Trigger happy mod deleted my post.
Basically, learn to read. We weren't talking about its financial success.
Re-read the above, then you might understand.
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Re-read the above, then you might understand.
That makes no sense whatsoever. You can't simply fumble and tell me to "re-read the above", we weren't talking about Facebook as a financial success, we were talking about its impact on society and its shady practices, which make it a failure as an "advancement of society".
Also, a lot of Apple users think its easier and safer to use a Mac than Windows when that isn't true, so Apple only has a die-hard fanatic base behind it that are easily brainwashed. There is also nothing an Apple can do better than a Windows.
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1 person liked this |That makes no sense whatsoever. You can't simply fumble and tell me to "re-read the above", we weren't talking about Facebook as a financial success, we were talking about its impact on society and its shady practices, which make it a failure as an "advancement of society".
Also, a lot of Apple users think its easier and safer to use a Mac than Windows when that isn't true, so Apple only has a die-hard fanatic base behind it that are easily brainwashed. There is also nothing an Apple can do better than a Windows.
(Yawn) OK, as it all needs to be spelt out for you:-
(1) I can and did suggest you re-read something.
(2) Yes, you weren't talking about FB as a financial success; I was (other people sometimes say things too!)
(3) Of course Apple products occasionally do things best, more often vice-versa. If you had read properly, you would have seen me write that I wasn't very keen on Apple generally, only that I objected to knee-jerk responses like yours (ranting away at me as an Apple fan because you didn't understand - that's why I suggested re-reading, thus provoking another knee-jerk retort)
Hope this helps.
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Doctor John said:
@Zoltan:- From reading the previous posts, I think you may have to simplify this further, to be in with a chance!
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(Yawn) OK, as it all needs to be spelt out for you:-
(1) I can and did suggest you re-read something.
(2) Yes, you weren't talking about FB as a financial success; I was (other people sometimes say things too!)
(3) Of course Apple products occasionally do things best, more often vice-versa. If you had read properly, you would have seen me write that I wasn't very keen on Apple generally, only that I objected to knee-jerk responses like yours (ranting away at me as an Apple fan because you didn't understand - that's why I suggested re-reading, thus provoking another knee-jerk retort)
Hope this helps.
1. Very well, what is it you'd like me to re-read?
2. You misread our posts, replied with something unrelated and once I pointed it out, you went into full damage control instead of admitting your mistake.
3. I never called you an Apple user, and its hardly a knee-jerk reaction if I've said the same thing for years and people keep buying Apple products without doing any sort of research before hand.
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I tried to make it to his memorial.
But the maps sent me in the wrong direction...
Lol Nice one
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1. Very well, what is it you'd like me to re-read?
2. You misread our posts, replied with something unrelated and once I pointed it out, you went into full damage control instead of admitting your mistake.
3. I never called you an Apple user, and its hardly a knee-jerk reaction if I've said the same thing for years and people keep buying Apple products without doing any sort of research before hand.
1) What I said.
2) I misread nothing, I made an independent comment which you can't/won't understand.
3) I never said you did call me an Apple user (re-read again!).
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