Comments on: Visionary 1983 Steve Jobs speech foretells rise of mobile computing, iPad

By: 2ndmate

2ndmate — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 19:45:55 +0000

Guess they don’t get Pixar movies over in Russia

By: RastaMouse

RastaMouse — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 21:05:00 +0000

This is quite possibly the best post I’ve read on this site, thanks for posting it.

By: postman

postman — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 16:43:23 +0000

I just want to watch this thread.

By: danilko1

danilko1 — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 16:40:14 +0000

I have a feeling the Newton was on the laundry list, while Steve was still at Apple. Based on what we are learning about this man, Scully couldn’t have “come up” with it, but Steve did and since he left “while pushed,” he couldn’t take that list with him. Think about it. If he shared all his dreams with Apple before ’85, and I think he did, then he lost a whole lot more than Apple, when he left.

For him coming back to Apple, was imperative.

By: Gary J.

Gary J. — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 16:37:20 +0000

SJ repeated what Bill G has already said 5 years prior and yes no doubt with SJ in the room. Gates/SJ and frankly several 1000 others have collectively contributed to the tech world we now live in. I

By: danilko1

danilko1 — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 16:35:39 +0000

I listened to most of this speech, nodding off to sleep at 1AM. My middle school benefitted with Gov. Brown and Apple’s rollout of at least 1 Apple computer per school. Our school had more than one though, but not many. I fortunately had my own Apple at home. The class was amazing, learning BASIC, I got into Assembly that year as well. For me the plan worked. It’s not in effect today though. The technology is there, but no one teaches programming anymore. I don’t get it, it’s like the state is afraid to train the next generation of hackers or something.

As I am listening to this, I find it inconceivable that at 5 years into “Apple” Steve is talking like this. It’s like he’s Dr Who. He just knows what needs to be done, he’s out of time. Seriously, he’s talking about solutions that will or would take 20 years and more to make. This is just blowing my mind. I am sure the vision of “A Radio Station for Software” is not the same as music. The App Store is pretty darn close and free “lite” apps is apart of that.

This audio tape…. If anyone thinks Steve Jobs and Apple is a copy cat, they are plainly nuts. He’s been running with these ideas from his youth. Like Einstein and relativity, It’s just taking a whole career to implement. I think Apple has been well behaved in going after copy cats, in light of a lifetime of “lost” dreams.

By: Dave from Canada.

Dave from Canada. — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 14:13:18 +0000

1 trick poney?
Pixar

Old news. Newton.

By: kingmel

kingmel — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 01:28:15 +0000

All he could ever do…?
It’s all the same thing really?

I doubt that many people around here will agree with you. Do I smell another instance of the anonymous MDN troll?

By: Radio Moscow

Radio Moscow — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 01:18:07 +0000

Steve was a one trick pony, all he ever could envision was a portable computer for the masses, mac, iMac, ipad, iPhone
It’s all the same thing really.

Not saying its a bad trick.
The ipad must have been satisfying for him, when technology finally caught up to his vision.

By: Grammar Police

Grammar Police — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 00:30:35 +0000

dought=FAIL! Doubt maybe?

By: SGT. Kesny

SGT. Kesny — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 00:16:32 +0000

I never had dought that “Small” computers WOULD-NOT be the “Future” of computing…NEVER…

By: 2ndmate

2ndmate — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 23:58:23 +0000

Back to the future