Steve Jobs To Appear On US Postage Stamp 184
Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes "Steven Musil writes at Cnet that the US Postal Service hopes Steve Jobs can do for it what he once did for Apple as the late Apple co-founder will be featured on a commemorative US postage stamp along with Johnny Carson, Ingrid Bergman, Elvis Presley, and James Brown. The former Apple CEO's stamp is still in the design stages and will be released at some point in 2015. Jobs, who passed away in 2011 after a battle with pancreatic cancer, has also been posthumously honored for his visionary achievements with a special Grammy Merit Award and a Disney Legends Award. Jobs was also inducted into the Bay Area Business Hall of Fame, has had a building at Pixar named after him, and was featured in an exhibit at the US Patent Office Museum. "The profitable first class mail business has been decimated by email over the past decade, thanks in no small part to the contributions of Steve Jobs and Apple," writes Derek Kessler. "It's no small feat to be so impactful that the USPS feels compelled to honor you despite the fact that the work that you've done is dismantling the core of their business.""
Re:Obviously.. (Score:5, Insightful)
despite the fact that the work that you've done is dismantling the core of their business
Yes, all the advances made in email, texting & IMing were made possible by Apple.
No wonder journalists are considered a joke these days.
Pathetic (Score:5, Insightful)
Yes, let's honor a "man" who was a billionaire who refused to acknowledge his daughter's existence for 17 years, while she and her mother lived paycheck to paycheck. While this was going on, he named a computer after her.
instead of artsy fartsy designer (Score:5, Insightful)
shouldn't Woz be on a stamp for whatever technological and contribution to progress the Apple systems have made?
Dennis Ritchie instead! (Score:5, Insightful)
Dennis Ritchie, the creator of the C Programming Language, along with Ken Thompson, co-creators of the UNIX Operating System, Brian Kernighan, and many, many others, laid the groundwork for ALL Operating Systems, and technology that followed. Linux, all flavors of UNIX, Android, etc... lead the world in O/S's, NOT Apple.
Steve Jobs would still be a amateur Geek in his garage if it were not for all the Giants of the industry that came before.
Considering that they only died 6 days apart, where is Dennis's stamp?
Dennis's home page: http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/dm... [bell-labs.com]
Re:Dennis Ritchie instead! (Score:5, Insightful)
What about Dennis Ritchie? (Score:5, Insightful)
He died the same year, and was way more important than Steve Jobs.
Re:instead of artsy fartsy designer (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Obviously.. (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Pathetic (Score:5, Insightful)
I kind of agree. Even without the personal baggage, I'd feel better if our stamps honored contributions to humanity, not stylistic creativity, monopolistic business strategies, or modern day robber baron philosophy. I recognize his contribution to technological progress, I just don't think, on balance, that we should honor him with a stamp. That's just my gut reaction...I could be wrong.