Here are several of Steve Jobs lasting contributions:
• 1977: The Apple II
• 1984: The Mac Factory
• 1998: The iMac
• 2001: The iPod
• 2001: Mac OS X
• 2000, 2006: The Apple Retail Store, Apple Store Fifth Avenue
• 2011: The iPad 2 / iPhone 5?
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OK, so Jobs gets credit as being a design perfectionist for a vapor-ware product? How about the real deal that has sold 14-million units in 9-months? The real deal that was indeed a paradigm changer.
Don’t forget Jonathan Ives’ hand in the design in some of these products.
@BrilliantSandwich or Braun.
Jonathan Ive (not Ives) had more than a hand in the design of everything since the iMac.
Geez, these stories are beginning to sound like morbid, advanced eulogies. But as long as we are extolling Jobs’ accomplishments, let’s not limit it to Apple. Kudos for NeXT and NeXTStep, and Pixar.
Steve Jobs has been at the top of various lists for various magazines for years! Finally getting the recognition he deserves. Best of the Best.
iPhone and iPad aren’t listed, but some hypothetical future versions of them are? That’s just weird. Just saying.
MDN Magic Word: saying
@ The iPad 2?: “credit as being a design perfectionist for a vapor-ware product”
What’s the vaporware product? I assume you incorrectly mean the iPad 2 or iPhone 5? Neither product has been announced yet, therefore, they are not vaporware. Until they are officially announced by Apple, they are just rumored products.
Love when people misuse terms.
But yeah, I don’t understand how they can choose non-existent products? Unless they’re just basing it off current models and believe they can only get better?
Jonathan Ive does the design, but Steve refines and reigns him in.
Bottom Line.
I recall reading about a review meeting involving an early prototype of the iPhone. Jobs reportedly dismissed it as “crap”. This is why Apple is where it is – they don’t settle for “good enough”. That too is part of Steve’s legacy.
Steve was always thinking ahead, imagining something new, giving it to his design group (Ive) and then acting as the final quality control judge. If it didn’t pass the Steve test, it went back to the drawing board. Hopefully, someone else can be that person, but they’ve got to have the kind of power Steve had to simply put the brakes on something after it’s well underway, and say it isn’t good enough… that was the real difference between Apple and other corporations. It behaved more like a smaller, private company than a huge market cap corporation. No designs and approvals by committee. That will be hard to replace if Steve leaves for good. Not impossible, but hard. He has a special place in Apple’s hierarchy, and the respect of those who work for him. One of the few chief executives who actually lead people to greater things. They don’t come along very often.
Steve understands what embodies
good design -“It should be simple
yet deep”!!!
That is the core of all Apple products!
1984: MacFactory?? What is this? Is it referring to assembly plants in China?
Even if Jonathan Ive is the designer, let’s not forget that with out Steve, they would never be involved in the creation of those wonderful products.
Just looks at Rubinstein, he was directly involved in the iPod design, and now with Palm (now HP) he could not perform the magic he used to in Apple.
@MacDust
No, the automated factories in Fremont, CA and Ireland.
such a random article
Those major products (and others not listed) are certainly achievements. But I think his day-to-day influence is just as critical. He involves himself at work levels way below that of most CEOs, and that’s why Apple’s products are not just very good, they are close to being “perfect” (as perfect as existing technology allows).
He does things like pick the music for Apple’s commercials. He is able to run many of the on-stage demos in Apple’s “keynotes” (particularly for consumer-level software), because he’s been using the pre-release versions, acting as “chief usability tester.” Most other CEOs would hand off doing product demonstrations to an underling and have nothing to do with product testing.
Not only is Steve Jobs a “design perfectionist,” he is a perfectionist in how to execute and market that design.
What about — 2007, Steve Job’s removal of matte screens from the iMac, smaller Mac notebooks and desktop displays (Cinema Displays)? Sure hope that is not a lasting design decision. Sure, not everyone wants matte, but many do – such as many graphic designers and photographers — not all, but many — and a substantial minority at that. See the growing matte petition at http://macmatte.wordpress.com
A note to bozo’s who post on MDN. The i in front of the Mac, Tunes, Pod, Touch, Phone and now Pad stand for Mr Ive. Since designing the first iMac way back when he joined Apple Electronics, Apple’s products have had the monika ‘i’.
Yes it was said that the i stood for internet when the first iMac was released for sale, but the you now know the truth, it has finally been revealed to us all!
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Errors & Omissions included in the last post.
I’m pretty sure that the first Apple Store wasn’t opened in 2000.
2007: The iPhone
2010: The iPad
Don’t forget those.
True, Jonathan Ive was responsible for many of Apple’s iconic products.
Remember, when he joined Apple his talent was not appreciated by Scully, Spindler or Gil Amelio. He was about to resign from the company but when Steve Jobs make a comeback he was quickly utilized to come up with the imac, which was the start to Apple’s rejuvenation. Then came the iPod and the rest.