On Oct 6, 2011, at 4:42 AM, Larry Colen wrote: > On 10/6/2011 12:04 AM, Joseph McAllister wrote: >> On Oct 5, 2011, at 20:00 , P. J. Alling wrote: >> >>> When he stepped down from the CEO spot, I expected him to suffer from a >>> long lingering illness, I guess he'd already been through the long >>> lingering part. >>> >>> On 10/5/2011 8:07 PM, Rob Studdert wrote: >>>> Apple co-founder Steve Jobs dead >>>> >>>> http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-10-06/hold-hold-steve-jobs-dead/3317496 >> I think Apple will miss him greatly. In my mind, the rollout yesterday >> (Tuesday) of the new iPhone that was NOT the iPhone 5 felt like the air >> being let out of the company's futuristic technicality. Then the next day >> Steve dies! Something going on there in the corporate Karma department. > It seems that what Apple has always demonstrated was the difference between > products that were designed to please one person in particular, and products > designed by a committee that were designed to offend as few people as > possible. Love them, or hate them, you had strong feelings about them. > ... > I think that history will most remember Jobs for the iOS family of devices. > He created new markets by making the company build toys that he wanted to > play with. If you shared his aesthetic, they were technological perfection > incarnate. If you just wanted shiny toys, that did cool things, they were > slick, pretty, and were easy to make do cool things. He understood that > giving people choices made products harder to learn, harder to support, and > would cause people's brains to freeze in indecision. >
Four things WRT Steve Jobs and computers: 1. Operationilizing the concept of personal computers; 2. Taking the Xerox PARC notion of a GUI and making it work; 3. The switch from OS-9 to OS-X (which oh-by-the-way also paved the way for the iOS); 4. Well designed usable transportable laptops. The ancillary stuff, like iPods and iPhones, are nice gadgets that I enjoy as consumer and stockholder, and they reflect his passion for design esthetics, but I think his computer influence is far more fundamental and I hope that is what history and the common man will recognize. stan -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
