As a person who remembers the world before personal computers, I can say that Jobs is right up there with the Wright Brothers, Edison, Henry Ford, etc.

He has truly changed the world.

Steve Jobs did more to shape this current American culture than anyone else: from the original PC — the Mac — to the iMac to the iPod to the iPhone. Each product became the “kleenex” of its type. The iPod opened the digital music “egg” for all music lovers. The podcast created an entire new way to distribute audio, especially talk.

I’m gonna sue these stinkin’ patent trolls. I inventing and patented the patent trolling business concept and they are violating my patent. I’ve got proof; I’ve got my patent right here (but I can’t show it to you, because I don’t want anyone else to copy my idea). Help me sue them and we’ll be rich!!!

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If you were looking for a “robber baron” corporation to penalize for “not paying its fair share” I don’t think you could find one better than Apple. Don’t they make like 30-35% before tax and something like 17% post-tax? Why doesn’t Harry Reid want to take some of that back? Doesn’t he think that Apple makes enough at 10% or 5%?

And yeah, Steve Jobs is alright, he had an idea about the GUI after visting Xerox PARC, but I think most of his stuff is hype. I wouldn’t have owned an early Apple computer. In fact I wouldn’t have owned most of them, I don’t own an iPad, an iPod, or an iPhone. I think they’re glossy shiny gadgets.

Some of them are OK computers, but I’ve just never really understood the cult of personality.

I don’t like to speak badly of the dead but I just don’t have the reverence for him that a lot of people who are currently making money off his company’s stock seem to, as a person. I’m sad he’s died prematurely of what looks to have been a long and difficult struggle with a very painful disease. But as far as the computers are concerned and the other products? They’ve always reminded me of the Jordache Jeans of consumer electronics.

Steve made a difference the way few people do. I’ll miss him.

I have been a PC user, but recently bought an Ipad. I love it and use it all of the time.

The Ipad is also quickly becoming popular as a communication devics for children with disabilities and as a learning tool for children with ASD. They are literally a fraction of the cost of the other communication devices on the market and with much more versatility.

I think it is poised to make a tremendous positive impact in the disability world. It is a shame that Mr. Jobs will not live to see it.

I’ve never owned an Apple product, and have never been a fan of Apple’s propensity for turning computers into cute, fuzzy pets. But even a hardened PC user can see that Steve Job’s death is a great loss to the world.

Based on what I’ve read about him, Mr. Jobs always brought his best, and expected the best from his employees. In doing so, Apple has forced everyone else to raise their game just to try to keep up. As a result, we’ve enjoyed a steady advance of technology that has improved lives across the world.

People like Steve Jobs are few and far between. I don’t think we’ll see his like again in a long time.

the cure for cancer will be discovered by someone conducting research on an Apple product, and bring it full circle back to Steve.

RIP

For all the Microsoft bashers the reality is they saved Apple in 1997….if it wasn’t for that Apple wouldn’t be what it is today…

http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2009/08/dayintech_0806/

Steve Jobs was a true genius. He will be remembered along the likes of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford as one of the greatest businessmen and innovators in history. This is a sad day because genius cannot be replaced. Steve Jobs was an adopted child of a poor family, and he dropped out of college His life proves that anyone can succeed in America if you put your mind to it.

I was thinking of Apple earlier, prior to the news of Mr. Jobs passing, while watching scenes from the Wall Street protests. It appeared that many of the protesters were using iphones and other capitalist technology to plan their demonstrations. Where they got the money to buy the instruments and the subscriptions is anyone’s guess. Maybe they should have a ritualistic demonstration against Capitalism by throwing all their tech equipment – all manufactured in China – in a big pile and burn them.

Jobs was nothing more than a PT Barnum of computers, “There’s a iFool born every minute” and “An iFool and their money will soon be parted” . Jobs was most likely the best marketer ever. he could sell a Freezer to an Eskimo but he never invented anything. Apple does make good products but the computers themselves a just big paper weights. .If IBM had not made the mistake they did with the microchip and allowed it to be cloned most likely we wouldn’t have nearly the amount of computers in the world as we do now. Apple and their arrogance charge way too much for their products and even back in the beginning not many people could afford computers.

I use to develop software and build computers for companies in the 80′s and 90′s. Apple I could design my software to run on mainframes, min-computers and PC’s. When i would try to convert my software to run on the Mac platform it would cost me almost tripple to write them same software and get it installed as it would for any of the other platforms. The arrogance i encountered trying to work with the people of Apple was intolerable. As a consultant many times i wuol dbe call din to upgrade the Apples in an office with more disk or memory. I could go into a firm and totally convert them from Apple to a PC platform with more powerful PC’s than the cost of upgrading the Apple’s they had.

Jobs was brought back to save Apple and he did but if it had not been for the iProducts Apple would not be the giant it is today. AS better products like the Androids etc get on the market and become cheaper without jobs to continue to market the Apple crap it might just go by the wayside. One can only hope.