I was ****ing around. If you read earlier, my main gripe was with Jobs being put on the level of Einstein and Edison.
I saw that movie and it was pretty good. Noah Wylie does a very good job (no pun intended) as Steve Jobs and captures what made Jobs both great and infuriating. Obviously a lot of this stuff is dramatized but it seems like one thing that drove Jobs, Gates and Zuckerberg was social awkwardness and insecurity that they compensated with a will to succeed.
I personally don't agree with the Einstein comparison, but as my wife likes to point out, perception is reality. Love him or hate him, when you have the mayor of the biggest city in America making that comparison, there will be some people following that perception. The Edison comparison is pretty valid though. Edison is believed by most to be a great inventer, and he was. He also has a lot of patents tied to his name, but if you read up on him, you'll see that much of his brilliance was in his business acumen and his ability to surround himself with and lead a LOT of brilliant people. If somone can only think of one thing he invented, it is isually the incandescent lightbulb.........but that is widely disputed. To the victor goes the spoils, I guess. Apple has been pretty victorious lately, so I wouldn't be surprised if history is pretty kind to Steve Jobs. Only time will tell.
Triumph of the Nerds might be a little more informative; mid-'90s so pre-internet, but actually has a clip of Jobs saying he didn't think Microsoft ever developed anything impressive. Also had some interviews with the IBM sales guy who hooked up with Microsoft after the deal with Digital fell through.
And Xerox PARC is Tesla. They invented tons of stuff from the GUI interface to ethernet and even the mouse and get zero credit for it.
And i still don't get how i was being a troll or disrespectful earlier. This is a message board. It's not like im sitting at the funeral in front of his family asking why people are shedding tears over him. Some people are too damn sensitive. The guy was part of a change towards a bad ass future that i dream of or picture when i watch sci-fi movies. But, what i respect most is that it seemed he lived in peace knowing his death was upon him. That is bad ass and I doubt while he was alive, he ever hoped to be placed in the same sentence as Einstein. A place he probably knew he didn't/doesn't deserve.
Steve Jobs is just one of the many innovators and he is nowhere near the important contributor such as Einstein and not even close to that of Edison. Another thing is that he can't even program. He might be a genius businessman at knowing to jump on an idea and push that technology. But if you're talking about the father of computer or the person that make computer possible is Alan Turing.
It only seemed a matter of time that this obit thread would involve whining about Apple fans and OS wars. That's what's actually turned me off from frequenting the the board in general... Watching Jobs' and Gates' joint interview at All Things Digital now, just amazing how these two have cultivated the technological revolution we're in. Just looking at everything over the past 10-15 years it's amazing how far we've come. <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/hM8K1yexO6s#t=0m34s" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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Possibly in the 'visionary' sense. It's really pretty fascinating, when you listen to stuff like Jobs' WWDC keynote in 97, or read some of the stuff in Gates' 1995 book The Road Ahead (though Gates was pretty far off on a few things) you can really see how some people are more capable of predicting these sorts of things and have that kind of vision. They don't get everything right, but clearly they can project a lot of where they need to go to be successful, and they do. Yeah, it's become pretty bad. Though the thread is better than I thought it would be (so far). That whole interview is a pretty amazing thing with the both of them there.
I find this a great interview about him. The guy is pretty knowledgeable and the innovative software is the reason why Apple is being so successful today. Even though I hate the way Apple practice but I deep down I knew they are the one who are pushing their software while the rest are doing half ass on their software programming and relying on hardware. But the problem with this approach of software programming does have a limit. <iframe width="640" height="480" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Scf6dV4FSf8" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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RIP Steve Jobs I dont have any Apple stuff, but he was a genius, he revolutionized the technology, and the computers.
