“Steve Jobs was out to change the world. He said so on more than one occasion, and yelled it on others,” Forbes reports. “He irrevocably altered the worlds of computers, communication, cinema and creative arts: His products sent tremors through the markets they entered and created new landscapes for others to build upon. These 10 products represent Steve Jobs’ most iconic creations –perfect blends of groundbreaking tech, sleek design, keen marketing, and most importantly, Steve himself.”
Steve Jobs’ most important products:
• Apple II (1977)
• Macintosh (1984)
• Pixar (1986)
• Mac OS X (2001) – Its origins lie in work that Jobs and his team did on NeXTSTEP, an operating system built at NeXT, the company he founded after leaving Apple in 1985.
• iTunes (2001) / iTunes Store (2001)
• iPod (2001)
• iPhone (2007)
• iOS App Store (2008)
• iPad (2010)
• The Apple Image
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I think the author researched the article on MDN.
iMac?
Agreed – I would drop the Apple image (which he did create) because it is not a product and add the iMac. The iMac is the creation that saved the company.
What about the Macbook Air?
“These 10 products represent Steve Jobs’ most iconic creations…”
I call BS.
Just for the record… Steve Jobs’ did not create any of these items. They were created by others. Steve’s greatest capability is to know what’s good, what’s the future, and what is not. The vast majority of the time when he sees an item (product or service) he knows whether it will be the future or not. When he sees such an item he supports it and pushes it despite what the “current wisdom” is.
He’s not perfect, e.g., the hockey puck mouse. He sometimes sees too far into the future, e.g., optical media only on NeXT, for which the world really was not ready until the iMac. However, his track record of knowing what the next great thing shall be has been far, far better than *anyone* else in the industry.
Now that sounds like a very informed opinion.
Got to love him, but he didn’t do it all alone.
Jobs did not personally do all of the work inventing/producing these products. That much is true. However, without Jobs do any of them exist at all, much less today? It is extremely clear that the answer to that question is a definite NO. We salute his vision in recognizing and supporting Ives, for example, as his genius. So in that sense he is responsible for them (as opposed to Al Gore claiming responsibility for the internet because he did not vote against the funding for the agency that supported much of the original work).
Since the Internet, as we know it, was invented on a NeXT computer, the NeXT computer deserves to be on that list as well.
Wait!…..
I thought Al Gore invented the Internet…
What about the Apple Retail Store?
Apple. Period!
The leadership team and its related virtual & talent benches at Apple Inc.
Jobs, rocks!!!
Have you seen the app on iphone? it’s cool 🙂