Apple CEO Tim Cook Remembers Steve Jobs On Fifth Anniversary of His Death (macrumors.com) 117
An anonymous reader quotes a report from MacRumors: As he has done over the past four years, Apple CEO Tim Cook has shared a tribute to the late Steve Jobs, touching on the importance of remembering the Apple co-founder and former CEO today, which marks the fifth anniversary of his death on October 5, 2011. In previous years, Apple also updated its website to remember Jobs, creating a two-minute slideshow of his various keynote presentations and most famous audio clips on the one year anniversary of his death. In the days following his passing, Apple started posting "Remembering Steve" comments from fans on its website. The company noted that well over one million submissions came in for the project, all from well-wishing fans in the wake of Jobs' losing battle with pancreatic cancer. "'Most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.' Remembering Steve and the many ways he changed our world," tweeted Apple CEO Tim Cook with a picture of Jobs. In remembrance of Jobs, Recode has compiled several of Steve Job's best interviews conducted at the D: All Things Digital conference. You can watch Recode's reflection video directly on YouTube here.
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That's happy Zombie Steve day, you heretic!
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Hopefully the rabid fanbois can handle a little truth. The truth is, Steve Jobs was a real asshole
I only met SJ one time: In 1978, when he was at the Apple Booth at a trade show in Chicago. I was working at a small I dependent computer store at the time. We sold Apple ][s, as well as S-100 bus systems by Polymorphic and Vector Graphics, plus proprietary x86 systems by Compucolor and a company called DTC, that had a black on paperwhite monitor..
Anyway, I walked up to Jobs and introduced myself and shook his hand. What I received in return was a withering glare and immediate dismissal. I got the feeling that Jobs wanted to go wash the "common man" off his hand...
So although I admire Jobs for his obvious talents and persistence-of-vision, I am under no illusions of hero-worship of Steve Jobs, the man.
Jef Raskin, OTOH, enthusiastically grabbed me by the collar (he didn't know me from Adam!), and showed me in detail what was doubtless confidential documentation on an upcoming version of Apple DOS, which hadn't even been released yet...
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But on the other hand, would SJ have let the Mac Pro languish for so many years in a row?
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But on the other hand, would SJ have let the Mac Pro languish for so many years in a row?
Unknown; since it was he that killed the XServe.
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You mean the same Steve Jobs that let the PowerMac towers wither on the branch for 18 months without an upgrade?
Yes.
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I find it interesting that someone found it necessary to mod the parent Flamebait, considering that it's written by Apple cheerleader/apologist-in-chief on /. It's actually an interesting anecdote, and shows, if taken on its own merit, that our friend macs4all does have some capacity for objective judgment. Kudos to you, sir, and try to apply that objectivity to discussions of Apple's products; you'd come across as less of a foaming-at-the-mouth fanboy.
Thanks for the props, man! You seem to have alerted some mods to change that "Flamebait" to "+4 Interesting"!!! (watch now as the Haters mod it back...)
But as you can see from that Anecdote, I have been an Apple-follower and I would guess, fan (not "fanboi" as some assert), for quite a long time (actually, since 1976); and so have a different (I would say "deeper") perspective on what Apple is, and isn't, and what their underlying motives are likely to be. I don't know how to phrase that to sound less con
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Most of the people that criticise Apple have never actually owned any Apple products and so haven't a clue about their qualities.
As to Jobs, I believe it's exactly the same people that give Elon Musk a hard time too. There's something about a commercially successful visionary that really annoys them.
Sure Steve Jobs personally was an perfectionist to the point of being an asshole. But then so is Linus Torvalds, but most here give him a pass. Whilst it's an ugly characteristic, in both cases it may be a key i
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Most of the people that criticise Apple have never actually owned any Apple products and so haven't a clue about their qualities.
As to Jobs, I believe it's exactly the same people that give Elon Musk a hard time too. There's something about a commercially successful visionary that really annoys them.
Sure Steve Jobs personally was an perfectionist to the point of being an asshole. But then so is Linus Torvalds, but most here give him a pass. Whilst it's an ugly characteristic, in both cases it may be a key ingredient of their success.
I agree with everything you said, wholeheartedly.
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I don't dislike Apple products, I think they're generally very slick and with very visually appealing and stylish UIs. I had an iPad Air for awhile, which was admittedly given to me. I used it for a while, and sold it off about a year later, because I just wasn't using it anymore. It was an extremely nice piece of hardware, very good battery life, fantastic screen, very slick UI. But it just felt so limiting and constrained, tablets in general are a compromised middle ground between smartphones and actual l
I'll probably get modded troll but... (Score:5, Interesting)
It was his own fault.
http://gawker.com/5849543/harv... [gawker.com]
Re:I'll probably get modded troll but... (Score:4, Insightful)
(1) he chose alternative treatments
(2) he died
(3) therefore...he might have died in the same amount of time, or died earlier, or died later with conventional cancer treatments
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I agree with OP for different reasons. It's his own damn fault. If he wasn't born, he wouldn't have died. My casual observation over the last several decades has indicated a perfect and direct correlation between being alive and being dead. Generally, I have found that if you hadn't wasted time being alive in the first place, you don't die, and therefore you have the substantial benefit of being able to ignore the Alex Trebek life insurance commercials.
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Well, by that standard, it's also the fault of Apple's VP team for not making him undead. (Insert obligatory comment about sacrificing engineers here.)
I'm suddenly imagining their VP team chanting, "Theena eesa betta" over and over.
Re:I'll probably get modded troll but... (Score:5, Informative)
Correlation is not causation.
(1) he chose alternative treatments
(2) he died
(3) therefore...he might have died in the same amount of time, or died earlier, or died later with conventional cancer treatments
Absolutely false. Read the link I posted, specifically this bit:
The condition might have been nipped in the bud if Jobs had acted right away. Jobs's cancer manifest in neuroendocrine tumors, which are typically far less lethal than the "pancreatic adenocarcinoma" that make up 95 percent of pancreatic cancer cases. Amri said neuroendocrine tumors are so "mild" that...
"In my series of patients, for many subtypes, the survival rate was as high as 100% over a decade...
However he figured alternative medicine is better and tried some stupid hippie vegetarian diet thinking it would work, and needless to say it didn't.
Jobs ultimately had a liver transplant, which meant that he gave it a TON of time to metastasize rather than having it removed.
Re:I'll probably get modded troll but... (Score:4, Interesting)
> However he figured alternative medicine is better and tried some stupid hippie vegetarian diet thinking it would work, and needless to say it didn't.
He had an operation to remove his pancreas months after his diagnosis. That was years before he had his liver replaced.
> In my series of patients, for many subtypes, the survival rate was as high as 100% over a decade...
Steve Jobs did live 8 after his diagnosis. Note that the initial diagnosis was likely not accurate, because by the time he was operated for, they found the cancer has been spreading for a long time *before* his 2003 diagnosis.
I wish people who are so ignorant, wouldn't be so quick to condemn. But that's the Internet, where it's ok to blame cancer on the cancer victims.
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"Correlation is not causation. "
But the correlation between ignoring cancer as it riddles your body and an early death certainly is.
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he might have died in the same amount of time, or died earlier, or died later with conventional cancer treatments
Those three alternatives are almost certainly not equally likely, though.
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Correlation is not causation.
Saying that in justification for his use of alternate medicine is worthy of further study. I vote we repeatedly kick you in the balls with varying amount of force and get you to grade the resulting pain. Let's see if at the end of it you look at the graph and then say "correlation is not causation".
I am wet while walking outside on a cloudy rainy day while it's raining. It must be due to the rain, but hey correlation is not causation.
I got sun-burnt while at the beach on a really sunny day. But hey correlat
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Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition......
Even if it goes against accepted medical science.
"You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? Medicine." - Tim Minchin.
Re: I'll probably get modded troll but... (Score:1)
What do they call someone pretending to pull a chicken gizzard out of your chest?
Dipshit.
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Huh, I thought it was something along the lines of, "Tribal faith healer".
Re:I'll probably get modded troll but... (Score:5, Insightful)
Had a friend many years ago who died of a (generally) treatable cancer because she didn't want to deal with traditional "evil" western medicine and tried all kinds of weird alternative therapies, none of which worked. Then she decided to go BACK for chemo, etc, but by that point it was too late.
She was a really neat, kind person too, sounds stupid I gues --, but I'm still pissed at her to this day for dying when she really didn't have to.
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I personally am a favour of alternate medicine and prayer to treat all illnesses. They are very good specifically when combined with Darwinism to treat stupidity within our gene pool.
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Could we also remember how he ran his company? (Score:1)
The same company that released products when they were done, not on some yearly schedule (this applies to hardware and software). The same company that actually cared about GUI design, so their stuff was obvious and easy to use and not filled with ultra thin fonts and neon vomit. The same company who cared about professionals, and generally had a usable high end workstation available... etc.
The list goes on and on.
I think Apple would do good to remember some of the things Jobs did to made them a great compa
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Well we've had "IOS without Steve" longer than we had "IOS with Steve". Tried using an iPhone running IOS3 or 4 lately? It's fucking uuuuuuuugly.
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Tried using an iPhone running IOS3 or 4 lately? It's fucking uuuuuuuugly.
So basically the same as IOS 10?
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It's the day innovation died at Apple (Score:5, Insightful)
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Sorry, but you were right the first time. Jobs brought some fashion sense into a world of beige-box PC's, and gave us the first smartphone that didn't suck, but really what else? Oh I guess the iPod and iTunes, but those are starting to die already.
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That's a nice equation Albert but really what else do you have for us?
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It's offensive both to science and Einstein in general to equate his accomplishments with the business savvy of a guy like Steve Jobs.
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Yet one of them dedicated their lives to work that will lead to the inevitable destruction of mankind.
Oh come on, Apple aren't that bad.
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Not just the way it worked, to Jobs it was the whole experience. From buying it to disposing it, you felt good about your purchase. It was similarly priced, had all the latest features (Bluetooth, WiFi AND Data) AND a finished OS with free apps for mail and web browsing that weren't just scaled down Desktop versions.
Compared to other "actual" smartphones (there were barely ANY), the iPhone was slightly cheaper and a hell of a lot better then either WiMo (not really all that hard, the thing showed a "Start"
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What did he/apple actually do, though? Turn computers from beige boxes into brightly coloured fashion accessories... that were sealed boxes you couldn't upgrade or repair? Build a phone that was marginally better but much "hipper" than the competition? I guess the ipod was nifty... just like the other small music players that came before it. Itunes? Meh, that was just the music industry catching up with napster.
I guess I could almost pay the ipad in terms of novelty - I'm not aware of anyone previously
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Seems more a triumph of style over substance than anything else.
Spoken like a person with no style, and no recognition of substance.
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spoken like a true apple zealot that values style over substance! personally I don't give a shit about style when it comes to my tech, performance, practicality, efficiency, robustness etc etc all rank a million miles above style.
You can have both, you know. That's what you will never understand.
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You're right - I have no style. Or fashion sense. And I am in no sense cool.
For these blessing I am eternally grateful.
LOLOL!!! I am in no sense cool. In fact, if you saw me, you'd call me a neck beard. I live in jeans and pocket tees both at home and at work. My hair is long and a bit scraggly, and I haven't shaved or trimmed my beard in many months. I don't eat sushi, nor sip soy lattes. My breakfast and dinner is as likely to come from McDonald's than it is to come from the freezer.
But I also recognize good design when I see it. And I see it in Apple products. I have built my fair share of beige boxes, so I know the di
Re:It's the day innovation died at Apple (Score:4, Interesting)
He was a great coordinator of ideas and technology. He sensed the right time the market and matching tech capability was ready for something.
He brought out the first practical GUI computer (Xerox Star was clunky), helped start the 3D animation craze (Toy Story) when everyone else was spooked by the financial failure of Tron, simplified music players, looked at the physical keyboard of the then popular Blackberry, and said, "Fuck the physical keyboard, it's a dinosaur!" (paraphrased).
And he also had a nose for cool designs, like the "Daisy" iMac. [pinimg.com]
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It seems they both influenced it (for good or bad). Quote:
http://history-computer.com/Mo... [history-computer.com]
"The [Mac project] caught the attention of Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple. Realizing that the Macintosh was more marketable than the Lisa, he began to focus his attention on the project. Raskin finally left the Macintosh project in 1981 over a personality conflict with Jobs, and the final Macintosh design is said to be closer to Jobs' ide
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It would be interesting to see how the no-mouse idea would fly.
RAM was expensive back then and the Mac was already pricey. Software publishers could squeeze more out of limited memory if they wanted to, but it took more time to program that way. Job's difficult-to-upgrade RAM decision was dumb, but not a show-stopper.
It didn't sell well
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Re:It's the day innovation died at Apple (Score:4, Informative)
Like so many geeks, you just don't get it. So what, he didn't improve tech. He made products that people love. |He made products that he loved. He brought a company back from bankruptcy to being the most valuable company in the world - not because the tech is good or bad, but because he knew what people wanted before they wanted it.
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Jobs reminds me of the what the band Kansas sings: "nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky. It slips away, and all your money won't another minute buy" Good thing too. These people are psychopaths, not innovators.
Really, was that really necessary?
Okay, yeah, great ATD video retrospective... (Score:1)
But do they have one showing every time the word "cyber" was mentioned [parkerhiggins.net]?
Ok salesman, craptastic human being (Score:1)
He's dead, so are a lot of (better) people, move on...
Also, his death is partly a result of his own arrogance and stupidity when it comes to ignoring science (ironic as hell really)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
So, Silverware right? (Score:1)
Lost interview (Score:2)
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Oh yeah, that guy (Score:2)
Apple CEO Tim Cook Remembers Steve Jobs On Fifth Anniversary of His Death
That makes it sound like he'd completely forgotten him up until now.
"October 5th... now why does that ring a bell?"
Maybe he could also remember (Score:2)
Fourth Anniversary of the First Anniversary (Score:2)
"Apple also updated its website to remember Jobs, creating a two-minute slideshow of his various keynote presentations and most famous audio clips on the one year anniversary of his death."
So we are remembering the one year anniversary? The fourth aniversary of the one year anniversary ....... right? Also let us celebrate the third anniversary of the second anniversary, because by a happy chance that is today as well.
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Meh. (Score:5, Funny)
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panicky trip to the Guru store before camp ends (Score:2)
Apple CEO Tim Cook Remembers Steve Jobs On Fifth Anniversary of His Death
"Heh, check out this picture. It's a turtle wearing a turtleneck. Say, that reminds me of that Steve guy who used to work here. Remember him? He was my boss for a while? Sure you do, he was that guy who used to say all these crazy things, and from time to time he would present what were really pretty ordinary tech advances as earthshaking paradigm shifts of breathtaking ingenuity? Oh, and he used to eat just fruit. Not just vegetables or just plants, but just fruit. They actually put me in charge of
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The only product category you can really credit to SJ was the GUI. He didn't invent it, but his was the first commercial success. That was 30 years ago.