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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

Steve Jobs...

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It's hard to imagine what my life would have been like without Steve Jobs. It was as much a mind set as it was an adoption of technology. To be a Mac guy was to be different. I liked that. It drew me in, but I found that the technology Steve was bringing to the world was something more than hardware or an ideology. It fit me, it sang to me, it shaped me. He made computers that I wanted. He made operating systems that I understood, that I gravitated to and identified with. He made the phone I wanted and made it integrate into my life the way I wanted it to. My two favorite loves, photography and music, became intrinsically immersed in the lifestyle that Apple computers made possible. His software organized and amplified my love for both, as my music, all 40,000 songs, reside in iTunes, my computers, my mobile devices and streamed throughout my home to several stereo systems, and my photography left the darkroom behind and has found a home on my 30" display. My work, over the last 20 years, has been inextricably tied to computers. My right side dominant brain wouldn't have made it without Macs. My MacPro wakes me in the morning, my iPod Touch serenades me to work and the rest of the day is spent in front of a MacBook Air or MacPro Display and before I go to bed, I spend one last hour on Mail cleaning up the day. And in-between, the most indispensable piece of technology I have ever known, my iPhone, is my constant companion. With it, and a free app, I lost 60 pounds this last year. To say that Steve Jobs and Apple have made a significant impact on the last half of my life would not be an overstatement.

I don't know Steve Jobs, nor have I ever met him. I would like to one day, as many would, just to thank him. I know what I know about him through media, personal accounts of those who have met him or worked for him and general knowledge of the public record. I have known Jim Jannard. For the last 25 years, I have known him as a client, as a friend, as a collaborator, as a boss, as a father and grandfather and as a man. He, too, has had an extraordinary impact on my life, some business, some personal. Both men are "men of their generation", both have excelled in their respective worlds, both have made impacts on all of our lives and both have taught me that we don't all put on our pants the same way. There are simply people that are gifted to excel and who have a vision and a resolve to see it through. Their integrity and their character mandates it. But given my regard for Mr. Jobs and the acknowledgment of everything that he has accomplished and brought to my life, when it comes to the man, my role model is Jim.

Business aside, I wish Steve, his family and friends and all men who lead and shape our world, the best of health. We need the good ones.
 
I'm grateful to Mr. Jobs for opening iPhone for small independent developers. I was able to quit my full-time job (software consulting) and now I work for myself. By the way, I make one of those apps that help people to get in shape, maybe Jon uses my app :-) I bought my first Mac 3 years ago to write my iPhone app, and now I really like Macs and all other Apple devices, except Magic Mouse :-)

But most important, I really feel a lot of compassion for Mr. Jobs, one of the brightest technical mind of our time. He is in a situation when one can get scared and depressed. Mr. Jobs is dealing with this situation with dignity. I wish him all the best.
 
Another ditto on Jon's eloquent post.

I walked in to my favorite yogurt store on Emerson Street in Palo Alto about a year ago, not long before the iPad announcement. Anticipation was at a fever pitch. I was in kind of a bad mood, in a hurry - then turned around... there sat Steve with a friend, who had been in line in front of me.

He seemed serene. A few people came up to him after his friend left while he stayed alone for a bit longer, sipping a drink and occasionally scrolling on his iPhone; he was gracious. My heart was pounding. Not often you see, much less meet, a hero.

I quietly left, though, a bit overwhelmed with the feeling that I had just been in the presence of someone who has truly changed the world - and was clearly - valiantly - struggling to still be a part of it.
 
Wow, as I read through Jon's post I kept saying, "me too!". Mac/PC debates can get crazy heated, but there's no denying that Steve Jobs is an amazing man who has literally changed our world in a big way. His obsession with quality and precision is a trait I admire.
 
I think people have said what we all feel very eloquently already. The simple fact is that many of us simply wouldn't have been able to do what we do without Steve and Apple. Beyond that though Steve represents a very important life principle - money and power should not be the goal, but by-products of an unending quest to make things 'insanely great', just like Jim and RED.
 
Heya,

Whatever you may think of his style, he has made an incredible lasting impact on computer. My first machine was an Apple II+ in 1980 when I was eight years old. Funny to think how far things have come from my machine - 16 colors, 48k, 130k 5 1/4" floppy and a tiny color TV attached via an RF modulator (and I still have it in storage and yes it works! .. well .. had to replace the power supply and a few 4116s..).

I spent a year and a half working with NeXT Computer starting in 1990 and had a brief moment to meet him when I was taking Objective-C courses in Redwood City, Ca and then later at the first San Francisco NeXT World event. High energy. No bullshit. :)

Never in my wildest dreams would I think that Steve and NeXT would be bought by Apple and then promptly take over Apple. Seeing NeXTStep rise from the grave and morphed into OS X was truly unexpected but very cool.

Hope he feels better and gets some quality time with his wife and kids. Apple will still be there if he feels like returning.

Best!

A
 
I've never met Mr Jobs but I was once gobsmacked to receive a response to an email enquiry (sjobs@apple.com) - that totally made my year :thumbup1:!! Who else would do that (except maybe Mr Jannard of course - I think they're probably cut from the same cloth)? Get well soon, Mr Jobs!!
 
Jobs? He's awesome in my book simply for enabling a whole slew of my idols to do what they did in the beginning of their careers. Get well and best wishes!
 
His story is the stuff of legend...

Perhaps it will be the next shot-on-Red biopic similar to the Social Network. But which actor would/could pull off Steve Jobs?

Wishing Jobs and his family an easy and quick recovery.
 
Kian Marandi said:
Perhaps it will be the next shot-on-Red biopic similar to the Social Network. But which actor would/could pull off Steve Jobs?
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It has already been done, in a way, but in that one Steve is more of an antagonist than protagonist if I remember things correctly. The movie is still kind of hmm, interesting, if you’re in to computer history and especially interested in the beginning of the PC era.
Shoot way before The Social Network and made for TV, but still, it’s a movie.

The Pirates of Silicon Valley
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168122/


Regards /Pontus w



Edit: Bahh, Elsie N, you beat me to it. :)
 
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