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sepiareverb
10-05-2011, 16:43
He had quite the impact on photography for the masses as well as those of us who are a bit more involved with image making.
I've never really used anything but a Mac, besides looking up things at the library.
robklurfield
10-05-2011, 16:45
Hard to estimate how far his creative reach really extends given how much copying of his ideas everyone in the tech realm has been doing for 30 years now.
djcphoto
10-05-2011, 17:08
His ill health was well known, but this news is still immeasurably sad, and really quite shocking. He was a true visionary.
I just finished reading about it in sf chron and uk guardian web pages. So sad, too young at 56. Rip. He was truly one of a kind, with a vision and the strength to push it thru.
Gary
BillBingham2
10-05-2011, 17:14
The best CEO ever. He will be missed.
Thank God he has built a great team to continue on. They have big shoes to fill but I think they will do fine.
I wonder what would have happened if Mr. Sugar Water had not kicked him out. He is proof that the visionary does not always need to be replaced as a company grows.
B2
He was born from a Syrian father and American mother, and was adopted by two Americans.
Supposedly, his father was born in Homs, Syria to a Muslim family.
May Steven Jobs rest in peace.
kshapero
10-05-2011, 17:16
sad just plain sad
kiemchacsu
10-05-2011, 17:20
With all respects, RIP!
He had quite the impact on photography for the masses as well as those of us who are a bit more involved with image making.
A very difficult character and not an easy man to be friends with, but definitely a man with visions and the energy to follow through on them. A lot of the things he picked up turned to gold (Apple, Pixar) or, if not, were recognized as visionary and had a huge impact on the field (NeXT). The computer industry is poorer without him.
That said, I don't really think he had an impact on photography though; I don't think anyone's photos look all that different because they were postprocessed using Photoshop for Mac, as opposed to Photoshop for Windows. When the original Photoshop for Mac came out in 1988, Jobs had already been away from Apple for years. He still was a significant man in fields such as the IT industry, or the consumption and distribution of popular music, but photography? Not really, the impressive character of the man notwithstanding. It's like writing an obituary for Henry Ford because you use a Ford to drive to shootings every day.
gilpen123
10-05-2011, 17:22
I am a Mac convert and never looked back. Such a vision and execution is phenomenal, Steve's a legend. May he rest in eternal peace.
jan normandale
10-05-2011, 17:33
Seems strange because I was just looking at a shot of him on flickr taken at an industry convention just 20 minutes ago.
When he 'retired for medical reasons' I was hoping he'd have time with his family for a few years at least. I've got to thank him. My first computer was an Atari and when they abandoned the field I went to the next closest but more expensive thing an Apple.
Take care Steve.
PS to rxmd... I think that the iPhone 4 is probably responsible for more photographs and permutations of art photography single handed than the Canon MkII 5D.. and that's a hell of an impact on photography. That's just my opinion though.
wgerrard
10-05-2011, 17:33
...I don't really think he had an impact on photography though
Jobs did not change the photo -- who has, really? -- but the iPhone certainly means a lot more people are taking a lot more photos.
I see the point you're getting at with the iPhone (but would like to point out nonetheless that before the iPhone even came out, more than half the world's phones had a built-in camera...) Maybe this can serve as a posthumous tribute to Jobs' marketing genius.
wgerrard
10-05-2011, 17:43
I see the point you're getting at with the iPhone (but would like to point out nonetheless that before the iPhone even came out, more than half the world's phones had a built-in camera...) Maybe this can serve as a posthumous tribute to Jobs' marketing genius.
Marketing -- adoption rates -- counts. That's why Edison gets the hype and Tesla is a geek favorite.
Benjamin Marks
10-05-2011, 17:49
Well, he was an outside-the-box thinker who defied group-think. Not enough of that in the world.
Ben Marks
andersju
10-05-2011, 17:49
Inappropriate comments that were in accurate.
Perhaps spare such comments for a more appropriate time and place?
An opinion that was inappropriate.
that may be an opinion, but as an engineer at Apple, i don't know of anyone who has worked for him who doesn't hold him in the highest regard. He built an incredible company.. both in products as well as an environment that brought about the best in his employees. I've been working in Silicon Valley since the early 80's, and no where else have I felt more a contributor, as well as having my ideas respected.. .then here.
'he will be missed' is an understatement.
Mackinaw
10-05-2011, 18:00
A true visionary. My respects to Mr. Jobs and my condolences to the family.
Jim B.
Hugely creative person. RIP.
blah blah blah.
Well, I don't read many posts on RFF, but I can say confidently that this is not your only inane comment of the week. The most inane--yes--this one takes the cake.
RIP Steve.... You lived your vision, and changed the world around you... literally!
I see the point you're getting at with the iPhone (but would like to point out nonetheless that before the iPhone even came out, more than half the world's phones had a built-in camera...) Maybe this can serve as a posthumous tribute to Jobs' marketing genius.
The were a lots of smartphone with cameras. The Sony and Nokia lines had some of the Best cameras. The iPhone actually had an inferior camera originally, but Apple opening up apps to the iPhone and then all the various camera apps really did it.. Of course Apple kept on makings things better and iPhone became the default camera that u always had with u.
Gary
kshapero
10-05-2011, 18:16
Poor taste comment that was not based upon fact.Not completely true. He was tought to work for, no doubt, but he was not ruthless and he did not steal ideas. I think you have him confused with Bill Gates. Anyway can't those that admired him have a chance to mourn before bashing him?
Very sad tonight. Here's the commercial (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8&feature=youtube_gdata_player) that pretty much started it all.
BillBingham2
10-05-2011, 18:29
I've worked for Apple and known a lot of people who have and still do. One friend years back created a wonderful product that could have pushed Apple down a different path towards success. The product was never released because a different company forced Steve's hand into not releasing it. The engineer never had a bad thing to say about him. His truly met terms of being insanely great and wildly successful. His clarity of vision with a big picture perspective but intimate knowledge and focus on every detail was one of a kind.
B2
sepiareverb
10-05-2011, 18:34
That said, I don't really think he had an impact on photography though; I don't think anyone's photos look all that different because they were postprocessed using Photoshop for Mac, as opposed to Photoshop for Windows.
I've got to disagree in that I don't think that Windows, let alone PS would be anything like it is without the Mac.
I think the thread is going down the path of trolling...
To have achieved so much, and impacted uncountable number of people in 56 short years, I think Steve Jobs lived many lifetimes in that short span.
*Mac Addict* though I do work for Microsoft :)
Hey guys, those are just computers and pieces of software. This thread is the one place where the usual Mac/Windows mudfights are pretty inappropriate.
BillBingham2
10-05-2011, 18:55
I think the thread is going down the path of trolling.......
I'm trying as hard as I can to keep them away. :eek:
*Mac Addict* though I do work for Microsoft :)
Worry not my friend. I am going to attend and protest at a satellite Occupy Wall Street rally and I have an MBA and have worked in the Finance Industry over 15 years.
B2
I have used Apple products for years; nevertheless I am not going to whitewash history or engage in blind hero worship. I apologize if this offends the tender-hearted among RFF readers.
And, why do you assume that we are engaging in blind hero worship or we are white washing history? Jobs was a leading Technology Innovator of our times. He could see a great product or an idea years ahead of anyone else, and that is also a fact. Can't we just acknowledge him for that?
a little more sensitivity about time and place (ie. this thread, on the day a person passes) would probably display a little more humanity. completely baffles me as to why you would even think about fueling something like this at this moment.
blah blah blah......
back alley
10-05-2011, 19:34
i'm reading this from my ipad...rip
robklurfield
10-05-2011, 19:35
One thing that always has struck me about Apple, and Steve Jobs in particular, is that these folks always designed products that they thought were cool, that they wanted to use themselves, that they had paid attention to how they felt to use, etc. At a lot of large industrial companies, more attention seems to be paid to "how many units can we move and at how high a margin." Don't get me wrong; of course Apple has always been concerned about these business imperatives, too. But, the thing that set them apart, and I hope will continue to set them apart, is their own personal concern about "if I could make the product any way that I wanted - with total freedom in design and features - what would I personally want in it? Have I done that with this gizmo? Would I actually use this myself?"
fotomeow
10-05-2011, 20:00
He is a giant who's shoulder's future giants will stand on. A great example of evolution and of self-actualization.
"this is your life, dont live someone elses". It is quite sad.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-q3RwdAosJ9U/To0nlw9KphI/AAAAAAAAC10/CIekMZrZz5Y/s800/PA060537.JPG
Ken Shipman
10-05-2011, 20:16
This hurts a little. I'm sorry you didn't have more time to smell the roses, Steve. My wife and I will miss you greatly. So long.
He believed whole-heartedly that someday everyone would have a computer in their homes, when computers were still gigantic machines that took punchcards for running algorithms. In hindsight the home compter seems so obvious, but once upon a time, it was crazy. People will claim that he stole ideas, but in actuality, he saw the possibilities and eventualities for inventions that the inventors themselves did not. I think visionary is indeed the proper term.
All of the POSITIVE comments so far are of course true. And regardless of western sensitivities at the time of death the fact is, none of you would have your gadgets without a few of these.
back alley
10-05-2011, 21:06
when did we become such a classless forum?
a little decourum please...
Richard G
10-06-2011, 04:16
In Melbourne Australia my Mac using slightly anti-Mac daughter rang my wife from the tram to uni to tell her of the sad news and my wife's next phone conversation with me began with a very diplomatic exploration of whether I had caught up on important events today. She is very saddened and shocked. I just marvel at the timing. What class to have the iPhone 4S announcement over first. You see mothers doing that, hanging on one more day to see the late-comer of her children. After all he's achieved Steve Jobs has left Apple and now the world with his company in the absolute best position he could possibly engineer. A Bladeruuner quote comes to mind. The Apple site, homepage on a number of my Macs, has a very dignified tribute photo. Very sad for his family.
PS have a look at www.wired.com
I Love Film
10-06-2011, 04:30
If you don't understand what this man did, and how the world you live in was influenced by him, you understand nothing.
Very mean-spirited and ignorant to criticize Steve Jobs at this moment in time.
burancap
10-06-2011, 04:39
RIP Mr. Jobs
hteasley
10-06-2011, 04:43
I don't like celebrities. I don't like our (the USA's) obsession with celebrities, with media personalities, and our general naivete that we can believe we know someone and like someone because they're famous.
But I'm having a pretty emotional reaction to Steve Jobs' death. The computers I use for my job, the computers that brought me and my wife together, they are products of Steve Jobs' vision. Bill Gates wanted everyone to have a computer but didn't have any clue as to why. Steve Jobs wanted everyone to have a computer, and he wanted those computers to make everyone's life more graceful and enjoyable. Before Macs, no one associated computers with images, or music. They were associated with spreadsheets and were maybe useful for storing recipes, or something.
No single person I don't personally know is more directly involved in my moment-to-moment existence, every day, and my life is much better than I think it would have been without what he did.
mabelsound
10-06-2011, 04:45
I don't think I've ever been sad about the passing of a corporate CEO before. Apple's project of social engineering through technical design is an extraordinary achievement--as profound, I think, as Barnack's in his time.
sdotkling
10-06-2011, 04:45
I took the first $4000 I ever got for writing a book (a very bad book) and spent it all on a Mac 512 in 1984. It was a miracle. Ever since, I've always been tied to a Mac. When Apple was on the ropes (remember the IBM-like PowerMac line? Remember Mac clones?) I feared for my professional life. When Steve Jobs came back to Apple, I breathed easier. This guy was the Edison of the age, and even if he was mercurial, cruel, driven and occasionally rude to the people who worked for him, I forgive him. It takes a rare man to change the world by his own vision. The best thing he ever said was "It's not the consumers' job to know what they want." As a veteran of umpteen focus group sessions, wow. Thank you.
Very sad indeed.
RIP Mr. Jobs.
Steve Jobs is one of my great curiosities, and will continue to be. I share a lot of traits with him and have always been drawn to his unshakeable vision. At this moment, I use mainly apple products and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future, because they deliver on what they promise, and have a special blend of aesthetics, design, and functionality that I do not see in other products.
I'm a little bit shaken up by his death - we all knew it was coming but I think I admired him so much that it will take a little while longer to sink in.
In his own voice: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rwsuXHA7RA&feature=player_embedded
Sad that anyone has to go at 56, never mind all the potential that is lost with his passing.
I hope Apple is able to maintain the high level it's been working at without him.
I think for some people (the haters) it's easy to forget Apple's first act and how influential it was. It's a cheap shot to say he stole this or that or really it isn't that big a deal. He was a huge and influential figure in one of the world's biggest/most important industries.
I agree, not many corporate big shots I'd mourn passing away. But Steve is one of them. Obviously not a man without fault, but who is? His impact on our daily lives is immeasureable.
I'm trying as hard as I can to keep them away. :eek:
Worry not my friend. I am going to attend and protest at a satellite Occupy Wall Street rally and I have an MBA and have worked in the Finance Industry over 15 years.
B2
Good man Bill, on both counts.
Regarding the passing of Jobs, I have developed on and used Apple machines for years (decades, actually), and have admired what he and his company achieved, on both the purely technical and the design sides. He was a true innovator and a strong individual, characteristics that can be surprisingly unwelcome in our "entrepreneurial" culture. I will really miss him. At the same time a lot of people "get" what he was pushing for, and I think he has made an impact on our culture that will endure.
Randy
R.I.P Steve :(
his kind is so rare in our times. only person I truly admired without hesitation or reservation.
fixbones
10-06-2011, 05:40
Great man, great product.
Thanks Steve. May you rest in peace......
unixrevolution
10-06-2011, 06:22
As a worker in the IT industry and computer hobbyist for many years, I've always admired the polished, whole-design approach Apple used for its products. Heck, I'm using an Apple right now!
What I don't like about Apple is the way they strong-arm the industry into getting their way. Microsoft hasn't even been as bad as Apple lately about this.
That said, I will miss Steve. His vision and brilliance were rare, and every time I use my iPhone, Mac, or any other Apple device, I'll know he's the one who made it possible.
Rest in Peace, Steve.
ever heard about FOXCONN ????
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-06/foxconn-s-woo-comments-on-the-passing-of-apple-s-steve-jobs.html
Gentlemen (to those for which this statement is applicable), with all due respect to each other and Mr Jobs' family and friends, please don't look at RFF as your playground to be a miserable jerk.
No other warnings will be provided.
Thank you
mabelsound
10-06-2011, 06:40
What I don't like about Apple is the way they strong-arm the industry into getting their way.
That's the genius of Tim Cook right there. He has got those supply lines sewn right the hell up.
If Microsoft had spent its capital more wisely, instead of splurging on, and then burying, other companies, they might be in a similarly sweet situation.
digitalintrigue
10-06-2011, 06:49
Having been in the Mac industry for 20+ years, my life would not have been the same without him. Nor would my daughter's be the same, without 'Toy Story' and other great Pixar creations, her MacBook, and her current job at Apple. RIP Steve.
adamjohari
10-06-2011, 06:53
I didn't know that I could feel so sad for the passing of someone I'm not related to. Thanks Steve, you made great products and you did it with an unrivalled passion.
RIP.
sepiareverb
10-06-2011, 07:33
Gentlemen (to those for which this statement is applicable), with all due respect to each other and Mr Jobs' family and friends, please don't look at RFF as your playground to be a miserable jerk.
No other warnings will be provided.
Thank you
Thank you. Kinda sorry I brought it up now.
A great and fearless leader is gone... :-(
digitalintrigue
10-06-2011, 07:59
My daughter reports that everyone at her office @ Apple is wearing black shirts and jeans today.
digitalintrigue
10-06-2011, 08:33
http://www.chicfactorgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/steve-jobs-uniform-apple-iphone-ipad-mac-pc-black-shirt-jeans1.jpg
doolittle
10-06-2011, 08:35
R.I.P. Steve Jobs. Genuinely moved to hear of his death. Can't say that for many C.E.O.s! For many, including me, he has rock star status.
Anyway, I am going to watch 'Pirates of Silicon Valley (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168122/)' with the kids over the weekend. I know is fictionalised, but i think it captures the excitement of the time.
michaelbialecki
10-06-2011, 08:35
R.I.P. Steve Jobs.......you rocked.....thank you so much.......
cheers, michael
Richard G
10-06-2011, 09:19
Moment to moment - well said Harry Teasley. Same for me. My iPhone, iPad, MacBook, iMacs and Mac Minis. I lost my iPhone 3GS last year and waited 4 (FOUR) days for an iPhone 4: those four days were hard strange days. I'm serious, my life is just so efficient with the benefits of Steve Jobs's vision. I dread the possibility of it all slipping and in ten years we are wading through concrete lamenting the inertia and decline of a post Jobs era. I'm an optimist and I tell myself that won't happen. I'll have my M2 and some nice paper and my pens and my binoculars to console me and I'll retire and spend more time outdoors and won't even try to tell my grandchildren just how good and how exciting it all was.
Frank Version Two
10-06-2011, 09:56
I'm not a fan of over-zealous moderation but you did the right thing by cleaning up this thread.
Woz's comments: http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/06/steve-wozniak-on-steve-jobs/ wait for the end.
RIP Steve
I am born about 3 weeks before Steve Job. What a loss of a genuis mind, and so early.
paulfitz76
10-06-2011, 10:24
To me, computers are like musical instruments. I've worked with them for so long and incorporated into business, pleasure and artistic endeavors they're just second nature. Perhaps I am lucky to be this way, but I think I owe some of this to Mr. Jobs. Some write the music for the instruments, some make the instruments and others just perform with them. Steve was one of the extremely rare individuals who did all three.
What's truly remarkable is that he could pass that along to so many.
RIP Steve. Thanks for Quickdraw, the system toolbox and system heap. Those were the seeds of a completely different road.
tunalegs
10-06-2011, 10:37
I'm not a fan of over-zealous moderation but you did the right thing by cleaning up this thread.
Woz's comments: http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/06/steve-wozniak-on-steve-jobs/ wait for the end.
RIP Steve
Woz is such a nice guy. I feel kind of bad that their business pulled their friendship apart, when it's obvious Woz still had a lot of respect for Jobs as a person, and not just a business partner.
Jobs certainly had a very interesting career, and a good bit of luck too. It's kind of interesting how things just happened to fall into place for him. I honestly believe that Apple would have gone down the wrong road if he hadn't left/been fired in the 80s - and he was lucky enough to come back, an older, wiser man, to put them back on the right track when they needed it a decade later.
It's a bit of macabre coincidence that Jeff Raskin who started the Macintosh project passed away in 2005, also from pancreatic cancer.
Peter Wijninga
10-06-2011, 10:44
Gentlemen (to those for which this statement is applicable), with all due respect to each other and Mr Jobs' family and friends, please don't look at RFF as your playground to be a miserable jerk.
Dear oh dear.
f16sunshine
10-06-2011, 10:55
His most memorable quote for me was from 2005. I see that the NYT ended their article today with it.
"Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish".
We know what he meant.
RIP Mr Jobs and thanks for all you left behind.
robert blu
10-06-2011, 12:44
I have been away for a short holiday without listening to radio, tv and no connection to the net. Back home this was the first news I got, Very sad. At my age I still remember that my second computer was an AppleII and later I bought the first Mac. RIP Steve, and condolences to the family and friends.
robert
Brian Sweeney
10-06-2011, 12:54
Very sad news. I felt this way when John Postel died, in '98. Steve Jobs was about the same age as John Postel when he passed away. All too early.
He leaves behind a legacy, and will be remembered for a long time. Anyone with these accomplishments should be at peace with theirself, I certainly hope that he was.
BillBingham2
10-06-2011, 13:25
There was another OS that was called Pink that became Talagent as it matured. Completely Object based from the ground up. Very very cool. Kind of like Lisa, too far ahead of the hardware at the time. I doubt we would be where we are today without him getting thrown out, building Next and coming back. I do not think he would have been the masterful leader he became without that set of events. It mellowed some of his communication and need to control everything somewhat without defocusing him from being insanely great.
Pink was pretty dang cool, lots of great people worked on it. Like osX, it broke the internals of classic Mac OS, but it was worth it.
B2
shadowfox
10-06-2011, 14:02
A visionary, a man with class, must be a ruthless critic and a perfectionist (probably towards himself even more).
I am not big on celebrities, not an Apple fan either, but Steve Job deserves his cult-like status.
I can't think of anyone else on his level that approaches his style.
He will be missed greatly.
being computer geek, one of moves I especially liked about 10 years ago was when Apple chose Unix as their foundation for OS X. Unix was always stable, secure, efficient etc. but hardly very user friendly, and tricky to bring into mainstream computing. yet its now ticking under the hood of almost every Mac out there, and people choose OS X because its easy and hassle free compare to alternatives. if some average CEO had been behind steering wheel of Apple that the time, doubt this would have never happened.
OS X might be giving away to future iOS, and Microsoft's "we get it right third time" also eventually brings results, but past 10 years would have been difficult without Steve's vision :)
RIP Steve Jobs. An interesting guy-- there was a good NPR radio show about him today. It's probably worth trying to track down on their website.
As an overachiever himself, Steve had the talent to inspire (or drive) others to overachieve themselves. He had assembled a telented crew to design the Lisa and Mac and the graphical user interface elements that are now common across platforms. All personal computer users have benefitted from this.
In early 1984 I was shopping for a PC, reading Creative Computing to bring myself up to speed on the choices. At this time the IBM PC was primo, and its BIOS hadn’t yet been reverse-engineered, so there was the issue of various degrees of being “IBM compatible”. I figured a solid choice would be an IBM or Apple II, or maybe the DEC Rainbow... and then along came the Mac and I was captured. It was a radical conversion to the GUI. Delightfully, the Mac was the only PC then that didn’t ship with BASIC. Although I could write Fortran, I didn’t want to deal with that sort of thing on a personal machine. Sure was the right choice for me. Thank you, Steve.
As a fellow Zen Buddhist, I anticipate Steve's next incarnation.
Last Friday I took delivery of a MacBook Air, my first Mac computer. We have multiple other Apple devices in the house -- 4x iPod touch, a few Shuffles and an AirPort Extreme. All of which did their part in motivating me to save my money for the cash to purchase the MBA.
Maybe it's pure sentimentality and makes no difference, but I'm glad I got the MBA before Jobs died.
For all who feel it necessary to trash talk, maybe just sit with yourself and look inside a bit. The man died.
posted from my MacBook Air 13"
f16sunshine
10-06-2011, 15:45
His next Incarnation?
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6211/6218895796_79abc296c6_o.png
His next Incarnation?
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6211/6218895796_79abc296c6_o.png
Insanely good
Apple Artifacts
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalmuseumofamericanhistory/sets/72157627833333804/
charjohncarter
10-06-2011, 16:55
I could care less about Apple, but Steve Jobs started a company that now employs 49,000 people. That is impressive. Go to the billionaires list and see who beats that (maybe Carlos Slim, and possibly William Gates, but I'd like to hear of any others).
LeicaFan
10-06-2011, 16:59
On an somewhat unrelated note, how many of you are familiar with Ronald Wayne? He was a co-founder of Apple and had a 10% stake in the company. He sold off all his shares in 1976 for $800, yes, eight hundred dollars.
Currently, that 10% is worth over $35,000,000,000.
Is this man still alive? Did he ever get over it?
This is so sad.
finguanzo
10-06-2011, 18:35
Yup, still alive. We interviewed him when Jobs retired, didnt look too depressed talking about it..
tunalegs
10-06-2011, 18:47
Is this man still alive? Did he ever get over it?
This is so sad.
I remember reading an interview with him a year or so ago. Says he doesn't really care. He wanted to help the Steves get their company going, but wasn't particularly interested in computers, so he left. He also felt that if something went wrong, creditors might go after his property (Jobs and Woz owned basically nothing at the time).
Jobs did later offer him a job at Apple, but he turned it down.
From an article (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/7624539/US-pensioner-Ronald-Wayne-gave-up-15bn-slice-of-Apple.html):
"He has remained in intermittent touch with his two former partners and last saw Jobs five years ago.
Mr Wayne said: "He had a computer show and invited me. He paid the plane fare and I was VIP, front row. We met Woz and the three of us had lunch. I'm pleased for them. Whatever Steve Jobs has achieved he deserves it. He worked hard for it.""
Thank you steve jobs......
for the Powerbooks, iMacs, Macbooks, ipods and ipod touch....... that I have been using since the 90's in no particular order.
May you rest in peace.......
jsrockit
10-07-2011, 04:22
He sold off all his shares in 1976 for $800, yes, eight hundred dollars.
Currently, that 10% is worth over $35,000,000,000.
Not many people would have kept those shares through 35 years, ups and downs, and many splits...
doolittle
10-09-2011, 13:05
Good documentary from 1996, Triumph of the Nerds. Apple, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak feature throughout, but especially in part 3
Part 1: http://youtu.be/CFL9IyJ_qHk
Part 2: http://youtu.be/IbRmaIzGTOM
Part 3: http://youtu.be/n1Bg461mnN8
robklurfield
10-10-2011, 18:33
Fifth Ave NYC
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6231/6229014621_38080c38ab_b.jpg
paulfitz76
10-11-2011, 07:52
Not sure anyone has posted this link yet, and if so I apologize if it's a repost:
Diana Walker's Photos of Steve Jobs (http://lightbox.time.com/2011/10/06/in-a-private-light-diana-walkers-photos-of-steve-jobs/#1)
These are much more to my liking and I'm sure to fellow RFF'ers for sure.
jarcher697
01-04-2012, 06:39
RIP Steve.
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