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Apple's Co-Founder Steve Jobs Passes Away
(10-06-2011, 05:23 PM)sugarkid15 Wrote: ^Can we refrain from the useless comments as caty and munch said.....anyways, we need to remember Steve Jobs for more than just his work as the CEO of apple because Jobs achieved a lot more than just that. He was also a co-founder of the incredibly successful Pixar Company, which has pumped out so many great animated movies like Monsters Inc. He was quite the well rounded man who should be remembered for all his amazing accomplishments.
Whoa, I never knew he was the co-founder of Pixar. O.O Pretty legit.
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I typed up a massive collection of paragraphs correcting everyone’s flaws about Apple and Steve Jobs, but then I realized no one would read a small paperback novel about things/statements/facts that would royally **** off both pro-apple and anti-apple supporters. So here’s the tl;dr version:
Steve Jobs didn’t pioneer anything we know in the modern world. Schools had deals with IBM, digital media distribution was already on the rise, smartphones were well founded by REM, and people already hated Microsoft for no reason (other than ‘windows sucks hurr durr bill gates is the devil’). However, what he did accomplish was spearheading several markets (specifically hand-held tech markets, such as mp3 players), and bringing them into the public eye in ways that no other corporation had done before. In doing so, he found a way to make products viral (iPod), mark up prices (Mac computers), re-create tech made in 2004 (iPad), and still have it appeal to all ages, audiences, and demographics; all the while keeping it trendy. Before long, the pressure Jobs’ ad campaigns put on the consumer to be ‘hip’ and ‘with it’ made Apple products mainstream, and their market success only went exponentially from there. In fact, his ideas generated so much money for Apple that the US gov’t got all jellymad and tried to put a cap on their earnings.
If you have any questions about this, I’d be happy to answer
Personally, however, I respect him as a businessman and no farther than that.
Steve Jobs didn’t pioneer anything we know in the modern world. Schools had deals with IBM, digital media distribution was already on the rise, smartphones were well founded by REM, and people already hated Microsoft for no reason (other than ‘windows sucks hurr durr bill gates is the devil’). However, what he did accomplish was spearheading several markets (specifically hand-held tech markets, such as mp3 players), and bringing them into the public eye in ways that no other corporation had done before. In doing so, he found a way to make products viral (iPod), mark up prices (Mac computers), re-create tech made in 2004 (iPad), and still have it appeal to all ages, audiences, and demographics; all the while keeping it trendy. Before long, the pressure Jobs’ ad campaigns put on the consumer to be ‘hip’ and ‘with it’ made Apple products mainstream, and their market success only went exponentially from there. In fact, his ideas generated so much money for Apple that the US gov’t got all jellymad and tried to put a cap on their earnings.
If you have any questions about this, I’d be happy to answer
Personally, however, I respect him as a businessman and no farther than that.
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Macintosh was the first, easy to use, personal computer ever made. Pre Mac era, you had to be a computer genius to use a machine. The Mac was developed with the average young person going through college in mind. In fact that was his very demographic. He personally made sure that computers were cheaper and easily accessible to students in colleges and universities; and yes, it was considered to be the most cost efficient computer for schools, homes, and businesses at that time.
Not to mention he takes otherwise mundane technologies and makes them 10x better. Lets take the ipod for example. Remember pre Zune era mp3 players? Pieces of ****. Ipods are not just sold because it's "hip", but because it's easy to use, sync and purchase music using itunes, AND IT LOOKED GOOD! He did the same thing with the smart phone and touchpads. Of course, the later not being cost efficient.
Just saying Madman, it's pretty hipster of you to not like Apple products. Someone's just **** jelly mad they couldn't afford them. :P
Not to mention he takes otherwise mundane technologies and makes them 10x better. Lets take the ipod for example. Remember pre Zune era mp3 players? Pieces of ****. Ipods are not just sold because it's "hip", but because it's easy to use, sync and purchase music using itunes, AND IT LOOKED GOOD! He did the same thing with the smart phone and touchpads. Of course, the later not being cost efficient.
Just saying Madman, it's pretty hipster of you to not like Apple products. Someone's just **** jelly mad they couldn't afford them. :P
Going along the thread of Pixar, if any of you guys have netflix, watch The Pixar Story. Its so awesome. I don't believe Steve Jobs cofounded... He was more of an investor in the company. He saw something in it that he liked and saw the future of the computer generated animation. He invested 5 million dollars and then more into Pixar. Sorry... I love Pixar and Disney. Steve Jobs helped bring Pixar back and wouldn't let it just fade away. I respect him so much for that.
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(10-07-2011, 03:03 AM)LordLladar Wrote: Just saying Madman, it's pretty hipster of you to not like Apple products.
Don't get me wrong, I still love my Gen3 iPod, and I love(d) my old-**** physics-textbook-sized-Mac-laptop from 1995. I like the products, I just hate how the brand operates.
As I said, they spearheaded several small markets and made them into something big.
I just don't agree with how they managed it after they got the publicity.
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