How many proffies can claim to have had the impact this person had on academia?
Wow.
Apple's revenue just this year alone will be more than three times Harvard's entire endowment. The trolls can have a field day with that, if they want. Or they can talk trash about Apple products being overrated.
But I'm simply in awe of the insanely great innovations.
Thanks for my iPhone.
Thanks for shaking things up.
Thanks for being interesting.
Thanks for all the crazy shit.
Thanks.
Thanks.
Thanks.
Thanks.
Thanks.
I bought my first computer in 1986. A Mac Plus. The following year I bought a hard drive to go with it. I wrote my PhD on a Mac because only Macs could handled the accented fonts I needed.
ReplyDeleteI've never used anything but a Mac. I've never had to.
Yeah. Thanks. Damn we'll miss you, Steve.
(written on my iPad)
Death comes too soon sometimes. I've been on the Mac track since the late '80s (Mac LC).
ReplyDeleteWriting this on my iPhone while waiting for camera card to copy over to my MacBook Pro.
I am sorry that Mr. Jobs died, and painfully as well. I have never been a hardware snob; I own both types of machine (Apple and WinClone) - whatever does the job, I use.
ReplyDeleteAs we put Mr. Jobs into the ground, let us remember the machines of his that also died young:
The NeXT Workcube
The NeXT Workstation
The Apple Newton
The Apple Lisa
The Apple III
The Macintosh XL
The Apple Bandai Pippin
The Apple Interactive Television Box
The Macintosh Quadra
The Macintosh Centris
The Apple QuickTake (camera)
The Apple I (kit computer)
The eMac (edu-computer)
Also, we should not forget all the clones of the Apple II which were made everywhere from Hong Kong (Vtech Laser 3000) to the Soviet Union (Agat series), even in the US (the Franklin Ace); Bulgaria would not have had a microcomputer industry at all, if not for illegaly making copies of the Apple II and the Sinclair Spectrum. Similar things could be said of Brazil, Yugoslavia, and other developing nations: ripping off Steve Jobs put them on the ladder of electro-technical manufacturing.
Thank you, Steve Jobs.
RIP.
I'm a PC. I've only owned one piece of Apple hardware - an iPod that never worked properly. I do like Pixar movies, though.
ReplyDeleteNone of this matters. What does matter is that a woman has lost her husband, and four young people have lost their father. My sympathies go out to them.
RIP, Mr. Jobs.
Converted to a Mac five years ago and have never thought of going back.
ReplyDeleteMy sympathies to Mr. Job's family. RIP.
What Kari said. Steve Jobs was famously reticent about his personal life, and rightly so. But sympathies and prayers are due to his family.
ReplyDeleteI, too, resist buying Apple hardware; it's overpriced for what I need to get done, and WinClones will do it just as well for half price. But --
If I were a graphic artist or an animator, the only alternative to Apple is Silicon Graphics, which is even more expensive. Our Math department seems to prefer Macs, too.
And Apple makes the only non-phone PDA on the market any more, the iPod Touch. I don't use a phone enough to pay for a monthly plan.
So thank you, Steve Jobs.
My mom was a huge Apple freak -- we got our first one in 1984, and I went to college in 1985 with a brand new Apple IIc. She kept me in Apple computers till I finally got an academic job that supplied me with one. I hope she gets to meet Steve Jobs in that great computer lab in the sky. What an amazing guy he was.
ReplyDeleteAnother PC/WinClone user here (PCjr in the '80s to netbook today) who nevertheless admired the guy. Never mind the hardware and software, think what our campuses would be like today if he hadn't helped make it cool to be a nerd. An awful lot of our more serious, rewarding-to-teach-and-know students play with hardware and/or software in one way or another, from actual computer programming to digital humanities and digital art.
ReplyDeleteWhat Kari said. The public thinks it's lost a visionary, but real people have lost a man whom they loved dearly.
ReplyDeleteRIP, Steve Jobs, and comfort to the loved ones left behind.
When I started my undergraduate dissertation on hamster bones, I had a lot of spreadsheets. One month in it became clear that my computer couldn't deal with them and my partner-in-crime bought me a new Mini Mac for Christmas/birthday/anniversary. It was the best present ever and it's seen me through some long days. It still sees me through them.
ReplyDeleteSo thanks Steve, for giving myself and others the tools to advance our fields. Thanks for giving me something to watch films on when I'm out in the field. Thanks for giving me a phone that acts like my brain on good days. Thanks for virtually being Tony Stark. You will be missed.
Thanks, Gordo, for the new look for today's page.
ReplyDeleteI think that when someone has so much impact on the world, the public feels a right to grieve, even when there is a family who feels his loss in a different, more personal way and feels the loss of his passing more deeply.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Steve Jobs!
Thank you, CC. I never met the man, but I have been feeling weepy all day.
ReplyDeleteWhen the Canadian Liberal Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier passed away John Kenneth Galbraith remembers seeing his relatives and their neighbours, sturdy Southern Ontario Conservative farmers all, sitting in his parents' farmhouse kitchen bawling like children. Of course we feel it deeply when a well-loved public figure dies.