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dharmen started the forum topic Steve Jobs is Dead in the group News Items that may interest SN readers: 12 years, 7 months ago
Steve Jobs, Apple computer co-founder died today. Rebel with a cause? An innovator for sure. When young, he travelled to India to stay in an ashram. Eastern philosophy continued to be a part of his life, He remained a Buddhist throughout. Around the same time he took LSD* . He called the experience “one of [...]
I reckon your right there, no doubt that was why the Pepsi man got rid of him. and I reckon you right about the other stuff too except you have to, more or less grant the computer’s modern interface to him. He saw the commercial potential of the WIMP (Window, Icon, Menu, and Pointing device) at Rank Zerox ,He’s quoted as saying, ”They just had no idea what they had.”
Yes, the world is asleep! What shall we do about it?
i know, if you want to play him down he was just a marketing man but i am not talking about the guy in terms of whether what he did was a really postive contribution to the world. Only a few rare birds mange that, people like Jobs change things and nobody knows wheter it for the good or not. He’s made computers usable and accessible such that you and i might not ever have had this conversation!!! Millions of people now communicate with one another, that didn’t before, he played a part in that. I’m sure we gained something and we’ve lost something, bit simplistic but I reckon it works something like that.
What the real guy was like we won’t really know but I like the myth, the maverick that makes good, the humble beginnings, etc. Lets face it, he did a lot better than, say, Hitler, another person who was good at marketing!
As for the jobs going to China i wouldn’t mind betting some of those Chinese worker were happy enough to have work. Any way from his perspective he’d had been mad not to, he’s part of a big corporate were their all legally obliged to make a profit. They don’t give such things a second thought. Should they, can they even. Likely to change anytime soon? Well, you never know, people are packing out Wall Street to protest these days.
Unfortunately, its in the nature of things, when countries first industrialise conditions are bad To an ex-peasent farmer i bet $10 to15 a day don’t sound bad.
No, they didn’t.
You can definitely say he was very delibarate in what he did. But, this is not an enlightened guy, he has vision but he does not have big vision, hes just another player in the mass hypnosis show.
Your right there! I’ve owned macs since the early days. I got a real shock once. I had to use a PC to scan some documents for charchter recognition. The PC was devestatingly fast, my mac was good but the pc knocked spots of it for speed.
Just to let you Know I have a simple phone it makes calls and sends texts
Do you mean there are phnoes that do more?
you could try using a leaf bower to deal with the dust problem – works wonders, you must watch out where it settles though.
Seriously, we have a problem – and no solution, what to do?