Steve Jobs is dead.

[Flying Chickens]

ITT: Nobody knows what Steve Jobs actually did in creating personal computers.

He drew the apple, intercourse er.

[Tupin]

Steve Wozniak did quite a bit for Apple as well, if there were no Apple I and Apple II, there wouldn't have been a Macintosh.

The company had no idea what to do for the ten years Jobs was gone, and didn't do too well as a result. It was Jobs that came in with his prediction that MP3 players would be big and that people wanted a new kind of Mac. Then again, he did support the puck mouse and released the Twentieth Anniversary Mac. At least he killed off the Newton and clamped down on any third party users of MacOS.

I still don't get their popularity. Why would I buy an underpowered machine for way more than what a machine that is way more powerful? Image can only take a company so far, but it's taken them pretty far in the past decade, especially compared to where they were before.

Then again, Apple has always been like this. It's like they never got the memo in the early 2000s that computer parts were getting cheaper. They do tend to take advantage of people who want an easy system, but hey, it works. It's worked for over thirty years.

Add in the fact that they appeal to educational institutions, and they have a huge profit.

[Zero]

ITT: Nobody knows what Steve Jobs actually did in creating personal computers.

Oh no, I do.

Just stating the truth mang.

[The Riddler]

Steve Jobs is also responsible for getting Pixar on it's feet.
Fuck all of you haters.

[Zero]

Steve Jobs is also responsible for getting Pixar on it's feet.
Fuck all of you haters.

He did a lot of good. He did a lot of bad.

So did Bill Gates.

I don't see the problem here.

[Custom]

Steve Jobs is also responsible for getting Pixar on it's feet.
Fuck all of you haters.

hate hate hate hate hate

[Zero]

hate hate hate hate hate

[Custom]

that's what was playing in my head as i was typing it
nailed it

[PsychoYoshi]

Then again, Apple has always been like this. It's like they never got the memo in the early 2000s that computer parts were getting cheaper. They do tend to take advantage of people who want an easy system, but hey, it works. It's worked for over thirty years.

gogo 700% profit-to-part-cost margin. No, seriously. I mean it.

Steve Wozniak did quite a bit for Apple as well, if there were no Apple I and Apple II, there wouldn't have been a Macintosh.

Woz was the engineer and the one who did all of the intellectual heavylifting, and he's also an infinitely more pleasant and modest man than Jobs was (he fully admits that he loves Android as much as iOS, refused to take on a title at Apple above Lead Engineer, etc.). Jobs was a salesperson with vision. Jobs was a good salesperson with vision. In the end, that's all he was. The iCultists will mourn his death, yet life (and Apple) will continue without him.

My sympathies to his family, but having never known him personally, I cannot mourn for him. Any Apple fan that does actually grieve is either a poser or has some serious adulation issues.

[Tupin]

The Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh cost $7,499 in 1998. A Mac with the same specs as a Twentieth Anniversary Mac cost $2300. If Steve Jobs had helped sell it, it would have sold millions.