Reply With QuoteI knew it was out there....damn. Defined the term visionary...
Quite a character, undeniably an incredible visionary and businessman.
It'll be quite a while before we see his like again.
:(
I knew it was out there....damn. Defined the term visionary...
Very sad to hear, a real innovator with vision, the likes of which we won't see again.
RIP Steve
Not unexpected but still sad to hear. The man who took the nerdiness out of computing - annoying nerds everywhere - but realising early on the importance of using computing power to simplify and improve, not complicate and confuse. Every home computer user and every smart-phone user, of any type, owes something to his vision.
Paul
Well said that man - truly sad news, but as Paul said, not unexpected :(Originally Posted by Tokyo Tokei
:(
I don't know, even with the news of his health etc it still took me by surprise, seemed so soon after he stepped down.
Clearly a man of vision and drive and someone who accomplished a great deal both personally and with his team.
He fought so much with the cancer and, unfortunately he did not won. :(
RIP Steve Jobs. :sad2:
iGenius.
A real shame but certainly not unexpected.
It's just a matter of time...
Most importantly he delivered most of his promises in the items he sold.
And by far, apple service is the best I have come across among all.
Eric
an obsessive innovator and visionary, the world is poorer without him
Very sad and as always too premature
RIAC
Very sad.
RIP.
The times we live in: "Steve Jobs Dies : Live Blog"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/s ... -blog.html
I was actually really sad to hear the news this morning. :( And only 56 years old. :(
Sad indeed. :(
One of the greatest technological innovators, a man who consistently closed the gap between the idea and the product.
RIP.
This is really sad morning. RIP Steve Jobs.
Very sad - the passing of a truly inspirational mind :(
When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks long into you.........
RIP Steve.
It's never right for someone productive with good ideas to die so young - that's cancer for you, the ultimate in indiscriminate diseases.
However I was struck by something said presumably by an American and quoted in the WSJ earlier:
"Steve Jobs is important to us because the gifts he gave mankind are innumerable"
Mankind? Mankind?
...but what do I know; I don't even like watches!
Sad but not unexpected news. Far too young.
As an IT architect abd some that has to vision services for clients, I have always bee in awe off Steve Jobs.
A visionary who wanted to make technology beautiful and functional, always looking to make cutting edge tech something for the public.
Steve, you will be sorely missed
A remarkable man, and I think he might well qualify for the term 'genius'. Think about it; the mac, the ipad, the iphone, the ipod, the app store, itunes, Pixar...and the ability to make them desirable to everybody. Apples products made the leap from technology to objects of desire.
His mission was to "fight beige box mentality". I think he fulfilled it.
iRIP.
Sad to hear this. Surprised by how quickly this has come since he stepped down.
RIP
Very sad news. :(
RIP
Mark
RIP Steve Jobs.
Boll*x. RIP Steve Jobs.
Fas est ab hoste doceri
As someone else said, not a surprise, but very sad nevertheless
Very sad, think most things have already been said. Will be missed a very sad occurrence, so soon after his retirement
Thoughts to his family
RIP Steve, a visionary.
Summed it up for me...
"The world has lost a visionary. And there may be no greater tribute to Steve's success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented," U.S. President Barack Obama said in a statement.
While not unexpected, still sad news.
Dave E
Skating away on the thin ice of a new day
Very sad loss, the world needs guys like him, he was taken too young. My condolences RIP.
Rod
I find the use of the word innumerable in this context equally disturbing. It's a shame when what should be a straightforward eulogy is marred by excessive hyperbole.
"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart."
– Steve Jobs, Stanford commencement speech 2005. RIP.
RIP Steve - you changed my world for the better.
"Stay Hungry
Stay Foolish"
Sad indeed.
Never been an Apple fanboy, but his mark has been left clearly on all computers and operating systems....
Alex
Very sad news. My thoughts are with his family.
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
One of his quotes....
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary"
When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks long into you.........
A sad loss for his family and friends, and his shareholders. He was surely a brilliant man from a corporate and marketing perspective. But from a technological perspective, there's no loss at all in this news. Potentially a gain for consumers of technology, to be brutally honest, if his death helps to disarm Apple's mystique among the technically naive.
Nevertheless a staggeringly successful man who deserves to be remembered for what he did well (marketing) and not what his company did badly (technology). He certainly did leave his mark on computers, and as one who, as a system manager, had to overcome the downright inadequacy of his products time and again before I replaced them with hardware and software combinations that were not only far more capable and reliable but considerably less expensive, I wish he hadn't. I actually feel a sense of closure this morning, to be frank.
I think the essential key to his success was that he somehow managed to align Apple with fashion rather than function. This meant not only that new versions of his stuff became big news, but that a lot of people who didn't really get technology were inspired to bleat about the latest Apple product in ridiculous glowing terms all over the web. Quite brilliant.
Really sad - another gone too young.
Is it ironic or amazing that tens of millions of people are finding out about his death on devices for which he was responsible?
Cheers,
@monogroover: You appear on every Apple thread with the tedious inevitability of an unloved season. Your opinions are free to be expressed, but I was quietly hoping you would have the grace to leave this one be.
Paul
That absolutely sums it up for me, as well. The iPhone is so staggeringly commercially successful and iconic that even the President of the United States believes that it's an invention. Brilliant.
Only heard this when the Mrs rang me on the journey into work this morning, sad news.
Mind you I suppose the fact that I went on to read about it on my iPhone and am now typing this at my desk in work on an iMac can be my own little tribute to the man.
RIP Steve.
I'd say it was neither amazing nor ironic, just inevitable, surely? I mean, Jonathan Ive will pass away eventually, as (and affecting a far wider audience) will Tim Berners-Lee, Vint Cerf and all the other people responsible for the proliferation of the internet.
...but what do I know; I don't even like watches!
Very rare I hear on the news the story of someone passing and it makes me a little bit sad.
He was a true legend. Changed a generation
I find that the truth of the situation has a value that somewhat outweighs your quiet and misguided hope. I have merely taken the same opportunity to express my sincere view of the situation that others have.
+1, and very much so, not really a debate about Apple thread....
A sad day.
RIP Steve Jobs.
I can't add anything to the tributes paid to Steve Jobs already, he was a "game changer". The dailymash has its take on his passing:
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/s...-201110064389/
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