“Steve Jobs, whose death was announced Wednesday night, Oct. 5, 2011, wasn’t a computer scientist. He had no training as a hardware engineer or industrial designer. The businesses Apple entered under his leadership — from personal computers to MP3 players to smart phones — all existed before the company got there,” Harry McCracken writes for TIME Magazine.
“But with astonishing regularity, Jobs did something that few people accomplish even once: he reinvented entire industries,” McCracken writes. “He did it with ones that were new, like PCs, and he did it with ones that were old, like music. And his pace only accelerated over the years.”
McCracken writes, “Jobs’ confidence in the wisdom of his instincts came to be immense, as did the hype he created at Apple product launches. That might have been unbearable if it weren’t the case that his intuition was nearly flawless and the products often lived up to his lofty claims. St. Louis Cardinals pitching great “Dizzy” Dean could have been talking about Jobs rather than himself when he said, ‘It ain’t bragging if you can back it up.'”
Steve Jobs’ career at Apple (in two minutes)
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Never mind Dizzy Dean. There’s no joy in Mudville without Steve Jobs.
I can’t wait to see what Apple dreams up in the post jobs world.
Once the mourning process calms down i expect the team to really pull off some amazing feats.
Although it is hard to see at first, the loss of a mentor and friend can often push people to higher realms if only because of the drive.within them to not let the departed down.
you need flash to watch a video on Steve Jobs! The irony!
Follow the link. Just watched it on my iPad.
How IDIOTIC to post a flash video about Steve–in October 2011!!