RIP: Steve Jobs

I started with a Apple IIc in the early 80s and have been a devoted user of Apple stuff ever since. Jobs came back and turned a company around that was headed over the cliff into what it is today. Think of all the stuff he had a innovative hand in: bringing the GUI to market, desktop publishing, the first laserwriter, a revolution in the way we get music and of course, IMHO, the revolutionary of modern video editing. I mean where were we all before FCP? Even if you didn't embrace Apple, they (Steve) changed our lives, and usually for the better. I feel like my guts have been ripped out. RIP Steve.

Grant
 
"Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. 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."

- Steve Jobs
 
What a sad day. He has had such a huge impact on what we do, even if you have never used Apple hardware/software. I remember grade school, having Apple computers and learning to write Basic on the spinach-green displays, and in middle school and high school having a computer lab full of Apple computers and spending so much time in there writing papers (and playing games when the lab instructor was out of the room).

The first Apple computer I ever bought of my own, after a few years away from the platform (didn't have access to Macs in college or at the broadcast station where I worked for several years), was a Powerbook G4 Titanium, 400MHz, with which I learned FCP. I still have that computer.

I mean this sincerely... this passing is, to me, just as sad as the passing of Jim Henson.
 
Very sad news. Note that in typical fashion, he seems to have handled this with great attention to detail and precision. He handed over the reigns of Apple a few weeks ago, and his authorized biography is being published in November. An impressive exit that gives even more insight into how he lived life. It's sad that the FCPX debacle was so recent... I wish he had lived to see it surprise everyone and become a respected and beloved pro editing app. In any case, much appreciation for all the things that have moved the computer and media worlds ahead for all of us. Bask in it, Steve!
 
Though I don't use apple made computers, I knew how big an impact he had on the way we live. He was a visionary. Rest in peace.
 
Here's a quote from Steve Jobs someone posted. I think it sums up the man's life and how he lived it:
"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
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My first thought is cancer, not computers-
Pancreatic cancer has a 5 year survival rate of 4%. Jobs was diagnosed in 2004, so I guess he beat the odds by 2 years?
If they start a Jobs end cancer fund, I'll give to it, Apple could probably give a billion or two.
Hope he didn't suffer much at the end.

NYTimes has excellent 5 page obit, this one's been in the can waiting for a while, sadly...
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/06/business/steve-jobs-of-apple-dies-at-56.html

And yeah, he made some very cool stuff- form and function merging as one...

Thanks, Steve.
 
What was your first Apple product? This one was mine. I actually learned to program it in basic pretty well, made a few programs, that my Junior High teacher accused me of stealing from a magazine which probably derailed my future as a programmer.

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Well this was my first apple that I used:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II

And I was programming it in fourth grade, I went to the first schools that had completely electronic classrooms in the united states (so we were told). Apple was there at the beginning of my computer experience. Now, while I used Macintosh in high school, I never embraced it fully until OSX. I hated MacOS (and still do) with a passion. OSX remains my favorite OS experience ever, as it melded the Unix and Non-unix world I live in together.

I've definitely enjoyed his influence on technology and embrace many of his products everyday. It makes me sad to think his vision will no longer mold things to come at Apple, and the technology world in general. A sad day indeed.
 
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