Steve Jobs Stops Innovating

October 5, 2011 | Filed under Breaking News,Celebrities,Deaths | Posted by

Steve Jobs, the man who arguably did more to shape how people think of and use technology, died today. He had suffered pancreatic cancer and had undergone a liver transplant.

 

To focus on Jobs’ death is the wrong thing to do. Rather, we should celebrate the life of a man who lived far more than most people, and touched more lives than we can possibly imagined. In many ways, today we live in the world Jobs made. Between Apple and Pixar, it’s a rare human being on this planet that can say they’ve never encountered the hand of Steve Jobs.

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  • Anonymous

    Thank you, Mr. Jobs, and RIP.

  • http://wizbangblog.com/ Baron Von Ottomatic

    Ten million hipsters can’t be wrong.  There would be no hilarious street theater on Wall Street today without Apple.  Shine on you crazy diamond!

  • Bob Armstrong

    He was on the job up until August. He had a real passion for his work. He could have retired decades ago.

    An amazing career for an amazing guy.

  • Anonymous

    RIP

    He helped birth the home computer along with innovations that have changed how we live today.

  • Guest

    Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement Address

    “No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.”

  • Anonymous

    My Dad died of pancreatic cancer.  When I saw that picture of Jobs when he announced his retirement, I could only think ‘it won’t be long now’.  I wouldn’t wish that kind of death on anyone.

    • http://www.facebook.com/michael.laprarie Michael Laprarie

      Same experience here, GarandFan.  Watching my dad suffer and finally succumb to that horrible disease was one of the most painful things I have ever endured.  I’m at least happy that Jobs is at peace now.

  • http://www.facebook.com/michael.laprarie Michael Laprarie

    The story of Steve Jobs is, I think, a lesson in failure as much as it is a lesson in success.  The handful of successes that “old testament” Apple produced (The Apple II, the MacIntosh) were barely enough to keep the company afloat amid its massively expensive failures (the Lisa, the Newton, the Performa series ‘MacLite’ desktops).  Maybe Jobs simply had ideas that were far ahead of their time,  because when the technology finally caught up (and when he had worked his way back into the chief executive’s chair) the “new testament” Apple that Jobs created became the standard-bearer for innovation and industry leadership.  Thankfully for all of us, Jobs never gave up on his ideas.

  • Anonymous

    There are many of us who were touched by his brilliance and worked to support his products.  He never lost the passion to innovate and compromise us to support his efforts.  He will be missed in the technology universe for time ahead.  An honor to know him and those who worked with him to keep all of those visions alive.

  • http://www.facebook.com/Stan25 Stan Brewer

    I think that I can speak for every hardcore Mac and other Apple products users by saying that the genius of Steve Jobs will be sorely missed in the coming years. A man of true innovation and vision. Just hope God is using some kind of an Apple product.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/EU5DQWQTTHTPO4A4ZYSL3AAV2U Adjoran

    RIP.  He was a passionate and courageous genius.

  • http://www.rustedsky.net Anonymous

    If it hadn’t been for Steve Jobs – I don’t think we’d have anywhere near what we’ve got.  He was the spark that lit the fuse for the computer explosion and the dot-com boom/bust.

    People like him come along very, very rarely.  The Wright Brothers, Edison, Tesla, Borlog, Farnsworth, Zworkin – they get an idea and develop it – and the world changes.

    Thank you, Mr. Jobs.  RIP.

  • Lisa

    With all the talk of government sector intervention in our lives (stimulus, healthcare, education), I would like to tease out how much tax revenue Mr. Jobs, Apple Inc, Apple employees added to our government coffers due to his entrepreneurship – sales tax, income tax – including tax on any dividends paid to shareholders, employment taxes, capital gains taxes on stock sales, property tax etc)  The other part of that discussion is what tax supported loans, credits, tax “loopholes” etc Apple partook of and how much more tax revenue would have been added if Apple products were manufactured domestically – which begs the question of whether Mr. Jobs/Apple could have achieved thier production, price points and profitability by manufacturing domestically.  In a time when so many think government is the answer to economic issues and even innovation (green energy), we are celebrating the life of a private sector innovator who likley did more for government than government ever did for him (other than maintaining law/order, property rights, patent protections and the right environment for captialism).