R.I.P., Steve Jobs!

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Pat Anderson

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Steve Jobs passed away today.

All of us owners of iPods, Macbooks, iMacs, iPhones and iPads know how personally involved Steve was in these incredible products.

Apple will go on, but it is hard to imagine it being the same in the future...
 
Absolutely agree, Pat. Steve Jobs was the Thomas Edison of this era...just when you thought he couldn't come up with anything new, not only did he, but he blew you away in the process. How "Jobs like" is it that he passed the day after a big Apple announcement...it's almost like he didn't want to take any attention away from the company when they were going to market.

I hope to live long enough to see another like him, but doubt I will.
 
As pat indicated, Steve Jobs was a true "hands on" business person that personified innovation throughout his career. He will be missed.
 
Sad news, but something we all kinda knew was coming. Our first Apple product was a IIe, and we bought our first Mac when they came out in 1984... we've been "supporters" of the product line since that time, having owned a bunch of them over the years. Jobs was the face of Apple for many years and guided them through many changes and innovations. His presence will be missed, but his influence will be felt for a long time.

R.I.P., Steve Jobs.
 
As I sat down to write this and tried to think of something appropriate to say it struck me that Steve Jobs was like the Wright Bros. They were not the first to fly, there had been gliders and balloonists galore, they were the first to make powered flight work and changed the world. Steve Jobs was not the first to make a small computer but he was the one who put the PC, even though he called it an Apple, on home desks and changed the world. I wonder where the next Jobs is?
 
The history of pancreatic cancer is almost always grim. We had a friend who also "beat the odds" and lived 5 years...It is a sad day, and Steve Jobs was a great innovator. He was working for Atari when he and Steve Wosniak joined to build the first apples. Actually they were not bad computers. One of my friends wrote a program to cut sails, and it still works very well today (if you have an apple II computer!). I didn't have an early apple, but bought the first Macs for my kids. I have gone back and forth between Mac's and PC's for the last 14 years..the last 5 of which I used mostly Macs...

The question is can the company still be as competitive as it has been. I think many of us are disappointed in the new i phone--but it is still an improvement.
 
As noted above. An innovator with a vision, and endurance, driven to the end. If there were baseball cards for hero's, his would be marked "MVP".

Harvey
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