Steve Jobs (1955-2011)posted 06 Oct 2011, 10:16 by KickassTorrentsSteve was a great inspiration to us all, so it's kind of a sad day here at HQ. For us he will always be a great visionary and a man that truly changed our everyday lives.
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Isaac Newton discovered gravity from the falling Apple
Steve Jobs created the Apple computer.
The three Apples that changed the world as we know it.
Mr. Jobs you were a genius with a legacy that will stand the test of time may you rest in peace and your family as well.
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R.I.P
So was Bill Gates back in the day.
Pretty much ALL the people who launched the information age were. Ask anyone who grew up near computer ground zero when all this was happening right in front of us.
Steve Jobs, unlike your mythology claims, didn't invent the Apple computer (][e or Macintosh).
Steve Wozniak invented the Apple computer. Woz actually WAS a technical genius. Jobs was the marketing genius that made it popular.
Steve Jobs didn't invent the iPod. Neither did Apple.
Sony did. It was called the Walkman. The iPod was simply a digital version of the same thing.
Steve Jobs didn't invent smart phones. Neither did Apple
Barry Haskell and the Bell Labs research team did before Bell Labs closed up shop and the majority of them went to Apple. Suddenly the iPhone appeared.
Steve Jobs didn't invent the mouse or the GUI (the basis of all modern popular computing platforms). Neither did Apple.
Xerox did, and those complete morons that headed up Xerox PARC at the time let him steal the technology. Hell, they basically showed it all to him and let him walk out the door with it. Maybe it was better that this happened as it's really unclear as to what Xerox was planning on doing with the tech.
Steve Jobs didn't invent a damned thing.
He made all that complicated cool incredibly simple and user friendly and that was where his genius lay. Today we would have called him a usability or user experience engineer if he wasn't already the CEO and face of the company.
While he couldn't invent sh!t, he had a brilliant way of taking what others had invented, seeing what could be improved upon (which typically meant features HE wanted because HE would use them) and putting it into a simple package (or at least bullying his designers into making everything simpler). The brilliance of Steve Jobs was in taking complex, difficult systems and making them simple and user-friendly. That's why Apple products are so popular.
Understand that I don't hate Steve Jobs. I hate the mythology that surrounds him (mostly created by himself). This mythology blurs and detracts from his actual accomplishments and gives him credit for things he had no hand in at all. 300+ Patents? Yeah right. Anyone who's ever worked in technology knows that your company owns everything you come up with, so the actual Apple engineers who designed all the cool stuff got little to no credit because of the massive cloud of hype surrounding CEO Steve Jobs. That bothers me because the truth gets lost and all that remains is mythology.
I reject the mythology surrounding him:
*he was the FACE of Apple, not the be-all end-all of the company.
*he didn't invent anything.
*all projects are signed off by the CEO of a company. That's part of their job and doesn't necessarily mean they had any hand in it's creation.
*same goes with patents.
*his personal life, which unfortunately spilled over into his management style. 'nuff said.
*his hippie philosophy which preaches that I should feel better about participating in the Apple experience rather than actually using their products.
I respect him for his actual accomplishments:
*his minimalist design approach made complex machines easy enough for any Luddite to use
*his exacting attention to detail
*his ability to recognize how to make complex systems easy.
*he basically brought computing to the masses when they didn't even know they needed it.
Thank you Steve.