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Steve's Sendoff - A Tribute To Steve Jobs From His Fans
Carrying On Steve Jobs' Vision
Wozniak on Steve Jobs: Macintosh Experience Hurt Him A Lot
Steve Jobs: 'Computer Science Is A Liberal Art'
What Bill Gates Has Said About Steve Jobs Through the Decades
The Life And Times Of Steven Paul Jobs, Part One
Russia's "Apple Generation" Mourns Steve Jobs
A Video Moment of Silence for Steve Jobs Starring a 23-year-old Macintosh SE
Steve Jobs on Living and Dying
The Truth About Steve Jobs And Xerox PARC
Steve Jobs' Real Legacy Resides with Apple's Competitors
Where Steve Jobs Ranks Among the Greats
7 Best Reads on Steve Jobs's Life
Steve Wozniak On Steve Jobs's Death: 'We've Lost Something We Won't Get Back' (VIDEO)
Steve Jobs interview: One-On-one In 1995
The NeXT Years: Steve Jobs before His Triumphant Return to Apple
Steve Jobs Reinvented What It Means to be Human
Apple Talked to Palo Alto Police Days Before Steve Jobs's Death
Apple Plans Private Commemoration Event For Employees
Apple University Revealed As Plan To Teach Executives To Think Like Steve Jobs
Bogus R.I.P. Steve Jobs Facebook Page Bilks VIsitors
Westboro Baptist Church Plans Picket Of Steve Jobs Funeral
There are literally thousands of tributes and eulogies in blogs, articles, and tweets on the Intenet mourning Steve Jobs's death Wednesday at 56. Here is a sampling of some that we deem especially worth checking out.
Apple Inc. Homepage October 6, 2011
Steve's Sendoff - A Tribute To Steve Jobs From His Fans
Steve Jobs changed the world by changing the way we think about technology. He will be missed.
He is being called the Thomas Edison of our generation. Whether or not you accept this description, there is no denying that he made us all "Think Different" about accepting technology into our lives.
His death on October 5, 2011 will be remembered as the day that we all lost an inspirational genius. He was not only one of the most successful entrepreneurs to ever dominate industry, he also epitomized "cool" in the nerdy world of technology. Only Steve Jobs could take mundane electronics like computers and phones and make them dramatically exciting.
On Monday, October 10th at 9 am PST/ 12 pm EST, a North American tribute to Steve Jobs called "Steve's Sendoff" will take place when fans of Steve Jobs will turn off or simply sleep the screen of their Apple products for one minute of silence to say goodbye to Steve Jobs.
"Steve Jobs has affected the daily lives of millions of people around the world and brought us together" says Colin Firth of mysendoff.com, the creator of "Steve's Sendoff. "It is only fitting that together, we acknowledge the impact he has had on our lives with this symbolic remembrance that gives us a way to thank him for the global communication legacy he has given us. We like to think that Mr. Jobs would approve of this fitting and symbolic tribute from his fans."
For more information on "Steve's Sendoff " tribute, please visit:
http://www.mysendoff.com
Carrying On Steve Jobs' Vision
Low End Mac's John Hatchett Says:
It's hard to know what to write about Steve Jobs now that he's gone. Without his drive - and no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a driven man - we not have the the wonderful world of neat Apple toys that are not only fun to play with, but also have profoundly changed the way we live.
And yet, Steve Jobs will not see more of the vision of the future that he promoted and advocated come into existence. Steve Jobs died at age 56, the same age that I am.....
Steve Jobs has charged all of us to carry on, to reject the commonplace, the ordinary, and the usual. We truly are at the age of an information revolution that will hamstring the efforts of tyrants to rule their fellow humans through force. One of the characters of Joss Whedon's film Serenity says, "You can't stop the signal, Mal. Everything goes somewhere, and I go everywhere."
Today, the biggest weapon that keeps dictators on their thrones is ignorance. Jobs and Apple created increasingly small tools that let us to talk to each other across the globe and access information that would ordinarily be hidden by national borders. It is up to humanity to make use of Steve Job's vision to create a better world.
For the full commentary visit here:
http://lowendmac.com/ed/hatchett/11jh/steve-jobs-vision.html
Wozniak on Steve Jobs: Macintosh Experience Hurt Him A Lot
ZNet's Larry Dignan has posted a video in which Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak reflects on, youth, being naive and the intersection of common sense and building products.
You can check it out at:
http://zd.net/mTol5L
Steve Jobs: 'Computer Science Is A Liberal Art'
NPR says:
When computer visionary Steve Jobs died Wednesday, many people felt a sense of personal loss for the Apple co-founder and former CEO. Jobs played a key role in the creation of the Macintosh, the iPod, iTunes, the iPhone, the iPad innovative devices and technologies that people have integrated into their daily lives.... Below are excerpts from Jobs' 1996 interview with Fresh Air's Terry Gross, including:
"In my perspective ... science and computer science is a liberal art, it's something everyone should know how to use, at least, and harness in their life. It's not something that should be relegated to 5 percent of the population over in the corner. It's something that everybody should be exposed to and everyone should have mastery of to some extent, and that's how we viewed computation and these computation devices."
To read more, click here.
http://n.pr/p7A0a5
Relentless Visionary Who Did It His Way
The Irish Times John Collins says that by any measure of business achievement, Steve Jobs was the most successful executive of his generation, possibly ever. Even more remarkably, Jobs did it his way and was far from the typically cautious chief executive of a massive US corporation.
Collins says "It's a cliché that is used whenever anyone of note passes away, but in Jobs's case it is safe to say that the technology industry will never see his like again.
For the full commentary visit here:
http://bit.ly/oBg4c1
What Bill Gates Has Said About Steve Jobs Through the Decades
Computerworld's Preston Gralla says:
Bill Gates and Steve Jobs have been competitors and friends for decades. Here's a look at some of the things Gates has said about Steve Jobs through the years.
Some examples:
"To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different, it takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination and the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard." --- 1998, as quoted three years ago in an AllThingsD interview.
"I wish I had Steve's taste. In people and product. It's magical." --- in the AllThingsD interview.
For those of us lucky enough to get to work with him, it's been an insanely great honor. I will miss Steve immensely." --- from the gatesnotes site, October 5, 2011
To read more, click here.
http://bit.ly/ozlTeD
The Life And Times Of Steven Paul Jobs, Part One
The Register's Rik Myslewski observes that "In the business world,... second acts are rare. In the corporate rat race, if you slip in Act I, you're trampled by your fellow rodents there's no "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow" on that unforgiving stage.
Except for Steve Jobs.
The career of Apple's cofounder and savior not only had a second act, but a long and successful third act that spanned from his return to Apple in 1997 to his resignation this August.
For the full commentary visit here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/06/steve_jobs_bio_1/
Russia's "Apple Generation" Mourns Steve Jobs
The Moscow Times' Roland Oliphant says:
If any proof were needed of how ubiquitous the bitten-apple emblem has become in Russia, it came Thursday as mourners laid flowers at Apple stores across the country and President Dmitry Medvedev led the nation in a tribute to company founder Steve Jobs, who died late Wednesday night after a battle with pancreatic cancer.
"People like Steve Jobs change our world," tweeted Medvedev on Thursday morning. "My sincere condolences to the family and all who admired his wisdom and talent." The president met Jobs during a visit to California last year.
It was a powerful illustration of just how far Jobs' and more importantly his products have penetrated contemporary Russian society, especially the business and political elite in the four years since he gave the go-ahead for Apple's launch of operations in the country.
For the full report visit here:
http://bit.ly/mVz2t8
A Video Moment of Silence for Steve Jobs Starring a 23-year-old Macintosh SE
Scientific American's Mark Fischetti says:
One of industry's mantras is that form follows function. But for Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, form was function. He hit upon that idea well before the much-heralded iPod and iPhone. Even during his hiatus from Apple in the late 1980s and early 1990s, his philosophy pervaded the company's productsincluding the 1988 Macintosh SE featured in this video, my first Apple product. Yes, it still works.
Hence my video moment of silence - filmed on an iPhone, edited in iMovie, no help needed. That pretty much says it all.
You can check it out at:
http://bit.ly/rmdcBe
Steve Jobs' Mantra Rooted in Buddhism: Focus and Simplicity
ABC News's Susan Donaldson James says:
Long before Steve Jobs became the CEO of Apple and one of the most recognizable figures on the planet, he took a unconventional route to find himself - a spiritual journey that influenced every step of an unconventional career.
...His adoptive parents sent a young Jobs off to Reed College, an expensive liberal arts school in Oregon, but he dropped out and went to India in the 1973 in search of enlightenment.
Jobs and his college friend Daniel Kottke, who later worked for him at Apple, visited Neem Karoli Baba at his Kainchi Ashram. He returned home to California a Buddhist, complete with a shaved head and traditional Indian clothing and a philosophy that may have shaped much of his corporate values.
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http://yhoo.it/oUfISl
Steve Jobs on Living and Dying
Low End Mac has reposted a June, 2005 piece by Charles Moore reflecting on Steve Jobs's famous Stanford University commencement address. Moore observed:
I thought Steve Jobs' June 12 commencement speech delivered at Stanford University last week was pretty darned good stuff, despite the fact that some students were reportedly "bummed out" by the partly somber and serious topical matter Jobs chose to address.
I am impressed by Jobs' willingness to breach certain subjects not normally discussed in polite conversation these days. As his general theme, Jobs chose to illustrate a Taoist sort of concept that "what has a front, has a back."
For example, Jobs had the chutzpah to tell the nearly 5,000 Stanford graduates that dropping out of Reed College in Portland, Oregon, after eight months study was one of his best decisions ever. Even outside the context of university commencement address, that flies in the face of boilerplate received conventional wisdom and postmodern cultural dogma that indoctrinate people with the notion that unless someone has a college degree, their prospects in life are mediocre at best....
However, Jobs really trampled over dysfunctional politeness by talking about death, noting that in his encounter with pancreatic cancer a year ago, he was initially told that he should expect to live no longer than three to six months. Happily, that prognosis was incorrect, and it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery....
But he went on to muse: "No one wants to die, even people who want to go to Heaven don't want to die to get there, and yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent; it clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now, the new is you. But someday, not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it's quite true. Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life...."
Steve Jobs was (forgive me) dead right about one thing: Everyone still has to die.
For the full commentary visit here:
http://lowendmac.com/misc/05/0620.html
The Truth About Steve Jobs And Xerox PARC
The L.A. Times says:
One of the foundation myths of Apple was that Steve Jobs and a team of developers working on Apple's Lisa personal computer cadged a visit to Xerox's legendary Palo Alto Research Center and walked away with a a sackful of secret technologies that it marketed before Xerox did....
The common thread of the multiple and often conflicting versions told me by the participants was that Apple's team paid very close attention to what they were seeing displayed on PARC's pioneering personal computer, the Alto....
But Apple had already developed its own version of the graphical display before the PARC visit - it's just that its engineers kept running into problems that PARC had plainly solved.
For the full report visit here:
http://lat.ms/plmXrt
Steve Jobs' Real Legacy Resides with Apple's Competitors
InnovationNewsDaily's Stuart Fox says:
Looking back at the colorful computers and sleek phones, one can easily mistake Apple Computers and Pixar as the legacy of Steve Jobs. That is not the case.
Most of his products sold poorly in comparison with their competitors and relied on others' inventions to do the heavy lifting....
Instead, Job's legacy resides at Google, DreamWorks and Amazon, where envy of Apple's cultural cache drives up quality in the products actually used by a wide range of people.
For the full report visit here:
http://yhoo.it/niY29x
Where Steve Jobs Ranks Among the Greats
US News's Rick Newman says:
He was indisputably a titan of the digital era. But how does Steve Jobs stack up against the greatest business leaders in American history?...
...Instead of measuring the amount of wealth created, I'm more interested in the impact that innovators have had on life in America, on how they improved living standards, advanced the nation's competitiveness and created opportunity for others. By that measure, Steve Jobs, for all his accomplishments, is up against a pantheon of epic overachievers....
"He was our Thomas Edison and our Henry Ford, all in one brief life," wrote political commentator David Frum in his Twitter feed, summarizing the thoughts of many.
But was he? Edison and Ford devised innovations so profound they transformed whole societies and materially improved the lives of people who never even purchased a Ford or Edison product....
If you're an Apple customer, chances are you feel that Steve Jobs has done something similar for you.....Apple customers simply enjoy using their products, which takes the drudgery out of scanning spreadsheets or speed-reading emails. Nobody really says that about a Blackberry or a Hewlett-Packard PC.....
But many Apple products remain high-end indulgences for people with the money to spend on an enhanced digital experience. Yes, Steve Jobs has done the masses a service by showing his utilitarian competitors how to devise an artful user interface, which usually trickles down to cheaper generic devices once Apple has moved on to version 4 or 5. But Macs and iPhones and iPads remain too pricey for many mainstream consumers, who might read about the wonders of Apple gizmos the way they read about luxury cars or fancy dinners:...
Jobs was truly a brilliant designer, marketer and technologist--all in one. But it's worth keeping in mind that the digital revolution would have carried on without him.....
[Editor's note: Strictly speaking, Seve Jobs was not a designer and inventor in the context of Ford, Edison, or, say Raymond Loewy - to whom he's also been compared. He was more a conceptualizer and visionary, delegating the actual design work to others like Apple's Jonathan Ive. Ed.]
To read more, click here.
http://yhoo.it/pCmjEo
7 Best Reads on Steve Jobs's Life
The Daily Beast's Josh Dzieza links to seven noteworthy Steve Jobs reflections:
Steve Jobs, 1955 - 2011, Steven Levy, Wired
The Steve Jobs I Knew, Walt Mossberg, All Things D
8 Questions About Life After Jobs, Ken Auletta, The New Yorker
My Regrets on Burning Steve Jobs, Brian Lam, The Atlantic
An Oral History Interview, Daniel Morrow, Smithsonian Institution
John Sculley on Steve Jobs, Leander Kahney, Cult of Mac
The Playboy Interview: Steven Jobs, David Sheff, Playboy
You can check it out at:
http://yhoo.it/qKt4oK
Steve Wozniak On Steve Jobs's Death: 'We've Lost Something We Won't Get Back' (VIDEO)
The Huffington Post says:
When Steve Wozniak co-founded Apple with Steve Jobs in a Silicon Valley garage in 1976, he couldn't have known the incredible footprint that Jobs would leave on the consumer electronics landscape.
The two built and marketed the first personal computer to generate color graphics, the Apple II. Jobs would go on to become the showman and the mastermind behind revolutionary products such as the iPod, iPhone and iPad.
Although the two didn't stay as close through the decades, they remained in touch.
Wozniak was among millions mourning Jobs' death on Wednesday at 56.
You can check it out at:
http://huff.to/plIlOn
Steve Jobs interview: One-On-one In 1995
Computerworld says:
In April of 1995, Steve Jobs, then head of NeXT Computer, was interviewed as part of the Computerworld Honors Program Oral History project. The wide-ranging interview was conducted by Daniel Morrow, executive director of the awards program.
From his early years - when he says except for a few key adults 'I would absolutely have ended up in jail' - to how he felt about Apple in the mid-'90s - 'The Macintosh will die in another few years [under John Sculley]' - to his predictions about how the Internet would change the world, this is a rare look at Jobs after his first string of innovations but before he returned to Apple.
You can check it out at:
http://bit.ly/qIjo1W
The NeXT Years: Steve Jobs before His Triumphant Return to Apple
LowEnd Mac's Tom Hormby chronicles the interregnum between Steve Jobs departure from Apple in 1986 and his return 10 years later.
For the full commentary visit here:
http://lowendmac.com/orchard/06/steve-jobs-next-years.html
Steve Jobs Reinvented What It Means to be Human
Forbes' contributor James Marshall Crotty says:
It was often written that Steve Jobs was a ___ (fill in the derogatory term: controlling, arrogant, demanding, perfectionist, and that favorite epithet of angry girlfriends everywhere that has a hole at the end of it). Steve Jobs may have been, at times, all these things and worse. And while I am all for treating fellow humans with grace, aplomb, and gentle encouragement (all of which Mr. Jobs no doubt exhibited at times too), I also ascribe to the Moe Greene Theory of Management (expressed to Michael Corleone in a Vegas hotel room): I gotta business to run. I gotta kick asses sometimes to make it run right.
Steve Jobs had a clear vision of business and product excellence. And no doubt he had to kick asses sometimes to convey that vision to those who were tasked with helping him implement it. Those of us who use Apple products are the beneficiaries of that drive and commitment, though Jobs himself no doubt paid a heavy physical and psychological price for singularly resisting the killjoy calls for conformity.
To read more, click here:
http://onforb.es/pPXO2M
Apple Talked to Palo Alto Police Days Before Steve Jobs's Death
Bloomberg Businessweek's Karen Gullo reports that Apple Inc. security officials met with police in Palo Alto, California, this week to notify them that Steve Jobs was close to death, according to a spokeswoman with the police department, noting that Apple representatives told the police department there was a possibility Jobs's death could happen this week, and thatpeople might come out in masses, noting that Jobs lived in a home that was modest, for a person of his means, on a public street open to pedestrians and traffic, so extra patrols were necessary for safety reasons
For the full report visit here:
http://buswk.co/ouRMqu
Apple Plans Private Commemoration Event For Employees
The BBC reports:
Apple said that it was "planning a celebration of Steve's extraordinary life" following his death on Wednesday.
In an internal memo to staff, Apple chief executive Tim Cook said those who worked closely with Jobs had "lost a dear friend and an inspiring mentor".
"We will honor his memory by dedicating ourselves to continuing the work he loved so much," he said.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15197037
Apple University Revealed As Plan To Teach Executives To Think Like Steve Jobs
Appleinsidr's Daniel Eran Dilger reports:
A secretive "Apple University" program that the company initiated in 2008 has been clarified to be a way to teach executives to emulate and perpetuate the successful strategies of Steve Jobs.
For the full report visit here:
http://bit.ly/pYv4fc
And then there are the bottom-feeders......
Bogus R.I.P. Steve Jobs Facebook Page Bilks VIsitors
PandaLabs reports:
As you all probably know, Steve Jobs passed away yesterday. These are sad news, and everyone is talking about him and his life as he has achieved so many fantastic things. Social Networks are flooded with quotes from Steve, and all of us have only good words to talk about him.
But as you can imagine, there are always people trying to take advantage of these situations. Some cybercriminals created a Facebook page called R.I.P. Steve Jobs, and innocent people have been joining by the thousands. In just a few hours it had more than 90,000 fans. Criminals published a link using the popular shortener service bit.ly, where they said that Apple will be giving away 50 iPads.
Of course all the stuff is a scam.....
For the full report visit here:
http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/r-i-p-steve-jobs/
Westboro Baptist Church Plans Picket Of Steve Jobs Funeral
The Register's Iain Thomson reports that members of the infamous Westboro Baptist Church have announced their intention to protest at the funeral of Steve Jobs, in a Twitter message sent via an iPhone. Thompson notres that he WBC has built a name for itself by protesting at the funerals of soldiers and those in the public eye, and is seen by many as the unacceptable face of free speech. A Supreme Court ruling this year cleared the groups protests under free-speech rules, so there is unlikely to be anything the family of Jobs can do to stop the protests by the renegade Topeka, Kansas based group spearheaded by Fred Phelps, a former civil rights activist and lawyer, and consisting largely of members of his extended family, with the whole group numbering fewer than 100 members.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/06/steve_jobs_funeral_picket/
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