[Vision2020] Steve Jobs

[Art Deco]

It's not only sadness that is felt but the loss of someone who was willing to take huge risks in developing advancing/useful technology.  Not everything Apple did/does was successful, but the ones that were were truly fine products and advanced the state of the art of user friendliness/orientation.  Jobs/Apple learned from their failures to go on to developing even better products.

Both my wife Linda and I have several Apple products.  I am currently waiting to see Windows 8 before finally deciding to drop the MS line altogether in favor of the Apple line.

I enjoyed the Apple TV ads where actors portraying Gates and Jobs had a number of friendly but telling face offs.

My iPods go through a Headroom amp/stereo re-processor into a set of Sennheiser headphones.  The sound is superb, better than any of expensive stereo systems I have owned, thanks to the iPod DAC.  The ease of use of the iPod with iTunes as the master librarian is great.  The iPod was probably the most important paradigm changer in the sales and delivery of music in our times.

Thank you, Steve Jobs.

I am not certain that Apple can continue its leader of the pack position in advancing user oriented technology without Jobs.

w.



From: Paul Rumelhart 
Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2011 7:38 AM
To: Kenneth Marcy 
Cc: vision2020 at moscow.com 
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Steve Jobs



I'm saddened to see one of the true visionaries that helped bring 
desktop computing to the masses pass away.

I don't generally use Apple products, though I do own an iPod shuffle.  
The last Apple computer I used I think was the Apple IIc (or was it a 
IIe?) that was, iirc, in the foyer of the Principal's office in the 
Junior High when I was going to school here.  Maybe it was at the High 
School.  It's been too long ago.

Anyway, without the early entrepreneurs like Jobs, we wouldn't be where 
we are today.  The world of computing could have taken a different turn, 
and been much more closed and distant.  Think massive mainframes and 
public computer terminals.

He was also involved in Lucasfilms and Pixar, and anyone connected to 
Pixar rocks in my book.

Paul

On 10/05/2011 10:03 PM, Kenneth Marcy wrote:
> Steve Jobs, Apple co-founder, has died. Here are his thoughts on everything
> from design to the internet and death itself
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> http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/oct/06/steve-jobs-quotes
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