Steve Jobs passed away today

[DaveSoMD]

I just saw the news, Steve Jobs passed away today.

Steve Jobs, Apple founder, dies - CNN.com

As big loss in so many ways to so many people.

 

[Dawgluver]

So very sad. The guy was truly a genius and a brilliant businessman. Had been so sick for a long time. RIP.

 

[GB]

Very sad news. RIP.

 

[Andy M.]

He delivered revolutionary products to the world for the past 25 years. The original Macinthosh made computing easier for more people. The iPod completely changed the way we all listen to music. The iPhone made the cell phone more like a small computer and the iPad has again revolutionized personal computing.

It must have been amusing, for him to introduce a product then sit back and watch the rest of the industry scramble to develop their version of the very same thing.

 

[pacanis]

He delivered revolutionary products to the world for the past 25 years. The original Macinthosh made computing easier for more people. The iPod completely changed the way we all listen to music. The iPhone made the cell phone more like a small computer and the iPad has again revolutionized personal computing.

It must have been amusing, for him to introduce a product then sit back and watch the rest of the industry scramble to develop their version of the very same thing.

And yet he was the one who joked that he stole others' ideas and improved on them.
I just read a lengthy rundown on his life. Amazing man.

 

[babetoo]

so young, only two years older than my son. a genius, he will be missed, most of all by his family.

 

[PrincessFiona60]

Very sad. I wish his family well.

 

[buckytom]

may he r.i.p..

i think the nicest comment i heard tonight was that he's being compared to great men like thomas edison and albert einstein.

 

[GB]

I heard the Thomas Edison comparison this morning BT and thought how appropriate that was.

 

[Andy M.]

I wonder if we all would still be typing from a C: on a black MS-DOS screen if it hadn't been for Jobs and crew at Apple.

 

[Timothy]

While I chose several decades ago to have a work life in MS programming, Mr. Jobs achievements are known throughout the world as trend setting accomplishments that would change the ways of many parts of the computerized world, and I salute him posthumously for what he did.

 

[chopper]

Talk about man who changed the world. Sad he had to go so young. Who knows what he would have done had he lived longer.

 

[spork]

Things won't be quite the same without Steve Jobs...
Watching the movie "Ratatouille" will have an undertone of sadness.

 

[Dawgluver]

Forgot about Pixar and all the wonderful movies like Toy Story, "To infinity and beyond!". Jobs was such a visionary.

Years ago, following the death of Jim Henderson, the creator of the Muppets, there was a cartoon in the local paper portraying all the Muppets, heads bowed and weeping. I remember several of my coworkers and I tearing up too upon seeing it. I still tear up when I think about that sweet depiction.

 

[pacanis]

I remember that cartoon.

 

[DaveSoMD]

Forgot about Pixar and all the wonderful movies like Toy Story, "To infinity and beyond!". Jobs was such a visionary.

Years ago, following the death of Jim Henderson, the creator of the Muppets, there was a cartoon in the local paper portraying all the Muppets, heads bowed and weeping. I remember several of my coworkers and I tearing up too upon seeing it. I still tear up when I think about that sweet depiction.

That one and the one when Mel Blanc passed away... the empty mic with the loony toons characters bowing their heads...both memorable and touching memorials.