From CNN:




Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple, has died, according to the company. He was 56.

The hard-driving executive pioneered the concept of the personal computer and of navigating them by clicking onscreen images with a mouse. In more recent years, he introduced the iPod portable music player, the i Phone and the iPad tablet -- all of which changed how we consume content in the digital age.

Jobs had battled cancer for years, took a medical leave from Apple in January and stepped down as CEO in August because he could "no longer meet (his) duties and expectations."





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RIP Steve

Thanks for posting 'Grove. Sad news. He has certainly changed the world, touched all of us. Brilliant vision and success. RIP.

Sad news

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Keep On Rolling

A visionary.
Very sad news.
Only 56 years young.

Sad to hear. RIP Steve Jobs.

A true genious. A tremendous loss. He was the Thomas Edison of our time. RIP.

Sad news. Saw and heard him in Paris a couple of years ago, all about Mac of course. RiP Steve Jobs.

So sorry to hear this sad news, especially with him so relatively young. RIP and thank you for all your inspiring work and innovations.

Very sad news.
I always admired him.

You could of bought Apple stock at $2.00 in the 90's. last month it was over $400 because of Steve Jobs.

Very sad. A true pioneer with a fine mind of his own.

Very sad news indeed. I figured he probably was not doing well when he resigned but did definitely not expect this news so soon. He was a creative genius, be interesting to see how Apple will fare in the future without him. RIP

Lose your dreams and you will lose your mind...

"And all your money won't another minute buy"
--Kansas, "Dust In The Wind"

It must have been heaven to work in Silicon Valley from the late 70s through the early 80s. Really exciting times. Those were the glory days and they changed the world.

Then it happened again in the 90s.

RIP Steve. Apple II forever!

He was a Stones fan, and was at the Filmore during No Security rehearsals when Apple did an ad campaign using a stones tune, I believe for "she's a rainbow" ... Talk about going out with your boots on, he really stayed to the end

The Apple II computer and then (many years later) the iPod were the two greatest toys I've ever owned. Both of them changed my life and made it immeasurably richer.

Thank you, Steve, and may you rest in peace.

Drew

RIP Steve, you helped change the world.

Thank you, Steve J, for my computers over the years, laptops all, my iPod and then my iPhone(s).
I missed you doing the Apple update keynote speech yesterday.

An American icon. He will be talked about for generations to come. He is like the Jimi Hendrix of music. Very sad to hear.

Very sad to see him pass at that age and from "an unusual form of pancreatic cancer".

I've heard the same discription way too often. is it that unusual? makes me think that they don't have a clue.
except, cancer is a bitch.

R.I.P. Steve Jobs

Steve, this is for you:

The Doors: "Tell All The People"

A remarkable life, and a loss that has come way too soon.

I guess not a shock, but I was still shocked.

Brilliant person, gone far too soon.

Yesterday at the i-phone introduction event there was an empty chair in the first row. The presenters must have known that he would die soon, they all seemed timid. And just before the event started, JJF was played.

RIP Steve Jobs



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I knew something wasn't right when he resigned and had read about the cancer struggle, but as some have mentioned here, I didn't think it would be this soon.
This guy was a revolutionary and has impacted the way we live forever.

Anecdote about Mick: seems Jobs had a Stones connection from the beginning...



A Mac For Mick
Author: Andy Hertzfeld
Date: January 1984
Characters: Bob Belleville, Steve Jobs, Lynn Takahashi, Patti King, Bill Atkinson, Mike Murray, Andy Hertzfeld
Topics: Marketing, Celebrities, The Launch
Summary: We present a Mac to Mick Jagger
Revision: most recent of 18


Mick Jagger
The last couple of weeks before the Macintosh unveiling on January 24th were extremely hectic. The software still wasn't finished, and it wasn't clear if there was enough time left to get it into adequate shape. Meanwhile, the Apple PR machine was revved up to full speed, so there were also plenty of unusual diversions, like being interviewed and photographed for the national press.

The absolute deadline for finishing the software was when the factory opened at 6am Monday morning, on January 16th, eight days before the introduction. When I came into work on Friday, January 13th, I knew that I would probably stay there all weekend, along with the rest of the team, working as hard as possible to shake out the remaining bugs before Monday. Steve Jobs, Mike Murray, Bob Belleville and others were in New York city doing a press tour, so I thought we would be relatively free of distractions, and would be able to focus on bug fixing.

I came into work later than usual, around noon, since I had been at Apple until 3am the previous evening, and I wanted to get one decent night's sleep before the final push. As I went to sit down, I noticed that a handwritten note had been placed on my chair. It was from our software librarian, Patti King, who had taken a message from Steve Jobs' secretary, Lynn Takahashi.


actual note
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"Andy - Steve J. called - we can deliver a Mac to Mick Jagger tomorrow. You can fly out to meet them by tomorrow noon and bring lots of neat software. If you can come, make arrangements for the trip through Lynn. Steve will call back in a couple of hours, also, he'll be at the Carlyle Hotel tomorrow."

Wow! A chance to meet Mick Jagger was a once in a lifetime opportunity. But we still had three more days before the deadline, and I would be absent for at least 30 hours if I tried to go to New York, plus I would be relatively useless when I returned from all the flying. I called back Lynn to tell her to tell Steve that I couldn't make it. But I was curious to find out about Mick's reaction.

I found out from Bill Atkinson when he returned from the East Coast on Sunday afternoon, and I got more details from Steve and Mike Murray a bit later. Steve had apparently gone to a party on Thursday evening, where he was introduced to Andy Warhol. Andy got really excited about the Macintosh when Steve demoed it to him. "You must show it to Mick,", he proclaimed, and arranged for Steve and the Apple crew to go to Mick Jagger's townhouse on Saturday afternoon to present him with a Macintosh.

Steve Jobs, Mike Murray and Bill Atkinson got out of the cab in front of Mick's two-story brownstone townhouse, hauling along a Macintosh in its canvas carrying case. They knocked on the door at the address they were given, but there was no response for several minutes. Finally, the door was opened by two huge guys who were obviously bodyguards, who didn't seem all that impressed to be talking to the co-founder of Apple Computer and his entourage.

The Apple folk were led upstairs into an elegantly furnished room to wait for Mick. Bill set up the Mac and launched MacPaint, and started to fool around with it. Then, abruptly, Mick Jagger strode into the room, dressed casually in a T-shirt and blue jeans.

Mick was polite, but he didn't seem to have heard of Apple Computer, Steve Jobs or the Macintosh. Steve tried to strike up a conversation, but he wasn't very successful. Steve told me that Mick couldn't seem to put together a coherent sentence. "His speech was slurred and very slow", Steve described it later, "in fact I think he was on drugs. Either that or he's brain-damaged." After a few minutes, it was clear that Mick had absolutely no interest whatsoever in Apple or the Macintosh, and an awkward silence ensued.

Fortunately, Mick's twelve year old daughter Jade had followed Mick into the room, and her eyes lit up when she saw MacPaint. Bill began to teach her how to use it, and pretty soon she was happily mousing away, fascinated by what she could do with MacPaint. Even though Mick drifted off to another room, the Apple contingent stayed with Jade for another half hour or so, showing off the Macintosh and answering her questions, and ended up leaving the machine with her, since she couldn't seem to part with it.



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He arrived with the Macintosh and left the iPhone and iPad

Steve Jobs will be missed. RIP

Jobs really seemed to be a big time class act. He helped create a culture that is with us for better or worse. Certainly people are buying more eyeglasses as a result...A real visionary.