Steve Jobs

[mallorys_camera]

Steve Jobs is dead.

He was one of those rare public figures I felt a really strong connection with.

Sure, an asshole and a jerk much of the time. But I don't know that I would ever have gotten into computer technology if it hadn't been for Jobs. I feel as though every Apple product is a reflection of some facet of his mind, and it was a quirky, crystalline mind, lithe and beautiful.

I feel a deep sense of loss.

Comments

[saltdawg.livejournal.com]

really?

I'm too lazy to Google this shit.

[mallorys-camera.livejournal.com]

What's to Google?

"Steve Jobs dead."

"Steve Jobs deceased"

"Steve Jobs croaked"

"Steve Jobs pushing up daisies"

But, yeah, really. That DOS interface PCs were using when I was going to graduate school just bored the shit out of me. My uncle gave me an early Mac and it was fun, using it was a kind of a treasure hunt, I made the analogy in a text to you that its industrial design was like reading a great piece of fiction, and that was true. I got so into that within five years I was doing Internet stuff for Time Warner and no, I never would have made that leap on a PC.

[robby.livejournal.com]

I remember how pathetic Apple had become, in the late 90's/early 00's. They were hanging by a thread, and Steve Jobs came back, and had the vision, and the skill to completely transform Apple. Now dead at 56.

[mallorys-camera.livejournal.com]

I'm a Mac user so I never though Apple had become sad and pathetic. I always thought they had a vastly superior product but it was another one of those cases where the public didn't get excellence. But no denying that Jobs diversification business model was genius, genius genius.

Though you gotta wonder why they bothered to make any announcement at all two days ago beyond, We'll be partnering with Sprint on new phones.

[slfisher.livejournal.com]

I was wondering whether they rushed it to try to have Steve be there for it.

[mallorys-camera.livejournal.com]

It was just weird because Apple could easily gotten away with saying nothing and grinning like a Cheshire cat.

[chezsci.livejournal.com]

I've used both over the years - my wife was doing post-grad computer science work with mainframes when the Mac came into being - she said she thought the feeling of using the Mac must have been close to how it felt for people in the 19th century when they walked in a room and flicked on lights. I fell for the design aesthetic right away.
Myself, I still get a little shiver of wonder when I fire up my iPod. Man, to think I used to love my Walkman. It'll be interesting to see what happens with Apple now that the Wizard of Oz is dead.

[mallorys-camera.livejournal.com]

Given how they blew it with the we're-calling-this-press-conference-not-to-announce-the-iPhone-5, I fear the worst.

[lethe1]

How refreshing to read this. Someone else on my flist is always moaning and bitching about those terrible Apple products. (Out of respect she has promised not to do it for three days.) How someone can prefer Microsoft is beyond me.