How are you celebrating the life and work of Steve Jobs today?
I’m rocking out on my iphone. (naturally) Going forward I’ll be working hard to put the customer’s experience first in everything we do.
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Enjoying good-natured Steve Jobs jokes.
According to Steve’s wishes he will be buried in a glossy white coffin with rounded corners and no visible hinges or latches. #toosooniknow
Also looking up early Jobs anecdotes I didn’t know.
I am in mourning.
I bought my first MacBook off my neighbor in 2007, (She was upgrading to another Mac) and never looked back. I am not tech savvy – just ask LiberalGeek! The thing that made me a cult member was how easy the Mac was to use. Suddenly, I was using my computer – unlike the Dell desktop we had for years and had become my mortal enemy. 😉
To me, what Jobs did was create products that did what you needed done without having to have computer training or invest hours into learning software. I made my first photo album in twenty minutes. Which was a big deal for me.
Two years ago I downloaded all my CDs to my iPod Classic, hooked it up to my receiver and… wha la!… All my music in one tiny box and dusty CDs packed away. And, yes, I did it all by myself!
That’s the key for me: Being able to do tech things all by myself.
Intuitive is often used with Apple products, and I’ve found that to be true. They just make sense.
Funny story which will make me look like an idiot: The alarm on my husband’s Blackberry went off one morning. He walked in while I was touching the screen (Why yes, I have an iPhone!). After he stopped laughing he pressed one of the tiny buttons on the side of the BB. I took the BB, looked at the button and asked how I would have ever figured that out?
Guess that’s why I love Apple. I don’t want to figure out my technology; I just want to use it.
I’m so sad Steve Jobs is gone.
I never bought into Mac, as I was raised on the evil that is Windows. I’ve heard its great, but so many applications I use are Windows, and I’m scared to come out of the closet.
I am organizing global revolution via my Mac today…I’ve had a Mac since the ’80s. Still have my first “Classic” in the garage. A little tiny thing with a black and white monitor. And tomorrow I am going to pre-order my first iPhone. (It’s just coincidence, I’ve held off because I was waiting for Sprint to start carrying it, and I’m in line for an update, but still!).
I have an iPhone because my employer pays for it. Haven’t used any other Apple product in decades except for a brief flirtation with buying music on iTunes a while back. I don’t have any emotional investment in the Mac vs PC thing; I just never saw the point of paying a very high premium to buy into a set of environments so closed and proprietary they make Microsoft look like an altruistic open-source development shop. Still, I have to give Jobs credit for revolutionizing several industries – first by popularizing (but not inventing!) a real graphical user interface, and then by inspiring all these tiny little gadgets we carry around these days.
“I am organizing global revolution via my Mac today…”
Love it!
I appreciate how Macs have brought the benefits of technology to people who wouldn’t otherwise use it. I was never one of those people, and I love to poke fun at the cult, but all are welcome to the party no matter how they get there.
Before he is canonized “St. Steve” let us remember that he did for years and the company still does use sweat shop labor in Asia. Remember the suicide scandal?
Agreed, I don’t think Mr. Jobs got us any closer to the “Star Trek” utopia liberals desire.
Please. You have your head up your ass if you think that Mr. Jobs didn’t get us any closer to the “Star Trek” utopia liberals desire.
Are you kidding? Steve Jobs built the damn tricorder.
Fair point about offshoring though, and not only in Chinese factories.
I’m doing it right:
I’m going to pay some poor minority kids in east Wilmington fifty cents to bake a dozen brownies, then I’m going to put a pretty bow on each one, then take them over to Greenville and sell them in an upscale boutique to some chumps for $50 each.
Dummy, Chinese kids will do it for eight cents a dozen.
Nice, Zafo. I am going to continue to scorn the apple clique.
It is every American’s prerogative to scorn whatever they want. Even things that made their lives significantly better. (See also, Teabags & Government)
I did not like his employment practices but the Westboro Treatment?????
@MargieJPhelps MargiePhelps
bit.ly/qBVLIP via @TheTorontoSunSteve Jobs spent his days teaching sin. He’s in hell. Tell your neighbor THAT or hush! #picketfuneral
Steve was a brilliant guy made a lot of gadgets but produced them all in China and not here in America so his passing doesn’t effect me more than anyone else.