“Love him or loathe him, Steve Jobs is a figure of social and historic significance who has arguably had as much impact on the daily lives of global consumers as anyone you can name,” Rich Jaroslovsky writes for Bloomberg.
“In an odd way, Apple’s recent spectacular success, combined with Jobs’s larger-than-life image and lightning-rod personality, have obscured just how important a force he has really been, and for how long,” Jaroslovsky writes. “After all, an Inc. magazine cover proclaimed that ‘This Man Has Changed Business Forever’ — in 1981.”
Jaroslovsky writes, “In an age when we routinely carry miniature supercomputers in the form of smartphones in our pockets, it’s hard to fully grasp the impact of Jobs’s first great product, the Apple II personal computer. The technological wizardry behind it — Those high-res graphics! That disk controller! — largely belonged to co-founder Steve Wozniak. But the vision of placing technology in normal people’s hands, and the passion to build a company devoted to that concept, came from Jobs.”
Much more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
I’ve loved Steve Jobs since the late 1970’s. A worthy hero indeed!
What’s not to love, there’s no other like him.
Greatest visionary of our era! People like Gates and Ballmer will be mere footnotes.
Obituaries already?
Strange, this article gave me a “déjà-lu” experience. Is this an update? (with only the publishing date updated to generate MDN copy?)
Steve not only care about the technology but also humanity.
Thank you Steve
This is ludicrous! The guy is not dead yet not even hospitalized or anything like that and people are talking like if he was 6 feet under! GET A GRIP PEOPLE! Steve Jobs just took a medical leave of absence. Let him be! Or we are all going to turn BLOOMBERG 2008 and start posting obituaries about a living person?
What do all the NAYSAYERS have to say now? eh? Anyone? Bueuller?
My record speaks for itself…. Go to Seeking Alpha…
God Bless Steve Jobs! My prayers are with him for a healthy return. Tenacity, Perseverance & Guts just to name a few….. Are what make up that man!
He has been through THE RINGER to get to his place. Keep in mind people through all his illness he has PROVEN!!!! What REAL GRIT AND CHARACTER he is made of…. Any other Human in the corporate world would have given up Long Ago.
See what you get Bill Gates for STEALING someones else’s IP and then Backstab the very fellow who gave you an opportunity to do something RIGHT AND GOOD THE FIRST TIME!!! See what you GET?!!! A BROKEN OS WITH YEARS OF COBBLED CODING PRACTICES! I SAY GOOD RIDDANCE WINDOZE it won’t be soon enough.
My rant is done!
It is nice to have heroes and role models in life.
He is a great one.
He needs an action figure!!!
Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated…
Try again in, oh, about twenty five years.
Nice of you all to be so kind.
Further allusion to the fact that we’ve very likely seen the last of Jobs at Apple. Karma and life have come full circle for him. What an amazing ride…..
Aren’t premature obituaries an invasion of privacy- or at least a lack of respect for Steve and his family?
Then again, he can’t read them when he’s gone.
Why would anybody loathe Steve Jobs?
He sure will walk among giants!!!
A true gift to humankind…
“While Jobs oversaw Pixar’s success, he wasn’t truly its auteur.”
This is quote from the article; what an ignorant nonsense to write. With Pixar, Jobs, as always took risks and made bold decisions — without him there would be absolutely nothing in the area Pixar developed; he was years away in the future comparing to others.
Wow, Woz actually got mentioned in the same breath…
@ Splat,
You are totally wrong about Bill Gates being forgotten.
He is the first man in recorded history to buy his way into Heaven.
Major kudos there.
will miss you jobs
🙁
*cry*
One man’s passion & vision trump “market research” every time. Too many large corporations design by committee and are slaves to the whims of focus groups. My impression is that if a flawed product is presented to Mr Jobs, he throws it against the wall and sends those responsible back to the drawing board. This is how great products are made.
Who said the I phone was a mini computer?