For my part (and I'm not a huge Steve Jobs fan), I'd say it boils down to two things:
1. He did an amazing job demonstrating that people can enact change and turn a vision into reality through force of will. 2. The Apple Human Interface Guidelines. Number two is more far reaching, I think. Jobs really pushed a design-oriented ideal for technology that really hadn't been there before. Computers were complex tools and no one really paid a whole lot of attention about making it easy to use and certainly not for non-technical people. Jobs said that design is important, that it is part of functionality and not something to be slapped on at the end. And Apple's HIG are a big part of all the computer technologies out there today that don't suck and are a pleasure to use. Judah On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Medic <hofme...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I know I'm not part of the popular crowd by asking this... but other than > make some cool hardware what did Jobs really do to "change the world?" > Everyone keeps saying he changed the way we live, but I don't see it. Maybe > for super dedicated fanbois, but for the average Joe? What did it do? You > have a cool phone and a cool mp3 player, but so what? If everyone was using > non-iPod mp3 players or blackberry's how would life be any less? > > On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Gruss Gott <grussg...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> C. Hatton Humphrey <chumph...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > http://xkcd.com/961/ >> > >> > As obscure as it is, once I "got it" I thought it was a beautiful thing. >> > >> >> Very cool. The guy did so much to change so many things for the >> better and was such an innovator ... and died before his time you can >> see how religion gets started >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:343306 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
