Steve Jobs

[msagara]

At Apple.com today is an obituary. It is absolutely done in the Apple style; it’s simple, it’s graphically arresting -- and it is also startling, almost unbelievable

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[mtlawson]

I found out about that shooter via internal e-mail, and the first thing I thought of was that you had to be kidding me. Of all the days...

[roseaponi]

My ambition as an artist and a writer has been to buy a Mac. I now have an iPad - insisted on an iPad, when my more tech-savvy husband and nephew said other things were cheaper or could do more. No, I wanted an Apple. Because there is something about Apple that is inspiring and encouraging - the fun creative stuff that more utilitarian people dismiss - and Steve Jobs built an entire company that proved yes, fun and creativity (and simplicity of use!) are important.

Only a truly remarkable person could do something like that in our more-function-for-less-money, greige-cubicle world.

And the world seems emptier now.

[thinkum]

greige-cubicle

I love this phrase. It perfectly describes the experience of being forced to work with something other than my Mac. :-(

[mizkit]

That was my first thought when he stepped down, too. In one of the stories I read about him today, the writer theorized that maybe with the successful reveal/launch of the iPhone 4, Jobs felt he could let go now. That seems...very likely to me, really.

God, he was young.

[msagara]

Can you imagine being Tim Cook or Phil Schiller? Because they knew, they had to know, during the 4S announcement. If you look at the streams of the reportedly lack-lustre Apple Event just one day after Job's death - they knew.

I honestly don't think I could have done the product announcement without weeping at some point, and they did, and there's no doubt in my mind at all that the enormity of his loss to them is probably life-shattering.

[lassarina]

Not to mention that he shaped computers as we know them--the modern GUI interface was adapted from Xerox because he realized it would make computers usable for the average person.

I was so sad to hear he'd stepped down because I knew it meant he wasn't going to be around long, and everything I know about computers, I learned on a Mac. :/ End of an era.