“If any proof were needed of how ubiquitous the bitten-apple emblem has become in Russia, it came Thursday as mourners laid flowers at Apple stores across the country and President Dmitry Medvedev led the nation in a tribute to company founder Steve Jobs, who died late Wednesday night after a battle with pancreatic cancer,” Roland Oliphant reports for The Moscow Times.
“‘People like Steve Jobs change our world,’ tweeted Medvedev on Thursday morning. ‘My sincere condolences to the family and all who admired his wisdom and talent.” The president met Jobs during a visit to California last year,” Oliphant reports. “It was a powerful illustration of just how far Jobs — and more importantly his products — have penetrated contemporary Russian society, especially the business and political elite in the four years since he gave the go-ahead for Apple’s launch of operations in the country.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Glenn H.” for the heads up.]
In Soviet Russia, jobs bury you…
That is impressive. Many people attribute The Beatles and rock’n roll for helping to break down the Iron Curtain and Steve Jobs is no doubt thrilled his efforts have followed one of his favorite groups in Russia to slowly change the world there for the better.
The Beatles helped break down the Iron Curtain? Are you for real?
I’ve heard that they had a part in that break down also. This is not something this person made up.
Here’s a link on it:
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/How+the+Beatles+tore+down+the+Iron+Curtain%3B+Band+inspired+dissent.-a0111664018
Thanks Mac Raven. @Gambo, consider yourself educated in the matter. I have seen Russians talk about their clandestine music collections and its influence. It’s amazing the things in life that effect change. When military might and other forces don’t, something as innocuous and seemingly trite like music works its magic (mostly on the next generation who comes to power eventually). How could the West be so bad with songs like “She Loves You, yeah, yeah yeah”, etc. ? Yah gotta love it. 🙂
That’s right! If it is on the internet, it must be true because . . . internet . . . you know . . . stuff . . . thingy . . .
You’re an idiot.
Браво! Молодец, Стив!
“Bravo! Fine person, Steve!”
wow. i love Russians more now.
i thought your country, like UK/Germany was very Windows-centric.
it’s nice to see you appreciate Apple/Macs.
i don’t know how big they are in Russia…
i am proud as human being, to see that at least one head of state, Medvedev, unlike our Obama or the EU, shows respect to Steve Jobs. respect to Dmitry & you people.
Steve conquered the world like a digital Gandhi. without force or wars. American is kaputt and all Obama can contribute is one line. pathetic. Jobs is the only US co. in black it seems, certainly the only one internationally respected for positive change & symbolizing the only “Made in the USA” quality image. so many Americans disrespect Steve or are blind to his contributions!? no wonder our economy deserves to suffer. we can’t help ourselves. we compete with each other till death – great wisdom!
respect to Russia.
“i am proud as human being, to see that at least one head of state, Medvedev, unlike our Obama…”
Apparently, you missed Obama’s encomium to Jobs. http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/10/05/president-obama-passing-steve-jobs-he-changed-way-each-us-sees-world
@deasystems, you should pay more atention to the world around your “door”, imediately after we knew about Steve Job’s dead. Our President, send a message to Obama and posted on FB his letter.
Greetings from Portugal.
I loved reading this – not only because I’m an Apple fan, but because my wife is Russian. 🙂
Yes, the sad news was #1 in the country.
we lost another world changing visionary just after jobs.
its been reported that Dennis Richie died last weekend.
The man was one of the primary creators of UNIX and the C programming language
Obama missed the opportunity to show more respect to Steve Jobs, unlike Russian president Medvedev…
Steve could’ve made the best president, saving our economy run by idiots & pigs.
at least show some recognition beyond 2 lines.
instead of admiring false American heroes like Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, Michael Dell etc. who produce nothing but diluted crap, mock & spit on user experience & paying customers, lie & cheat, promote genius that is dumbing & numbing
…this is the dilution of quality & moral & inventiveness that ruined us – not outsourcing or the Chinese! enough b.s. & excuses. the buck only stops with us, people, not presidents, and the only way to get up & go is through Steve-like honesty, directness, cutting the b.s. out, hard work, excellence 24/7, vision, no regrets, forward-looking, natural organic growth, fan loyalty, giving more than taking, doing if for the love & passion not business & greed…teaching our generation that success naturally follows respect & passion vs calculated greed etc.
inventing is nothing, without vision, materialization, metamorphosis, thinking ahead, practicality, simplification, implementation. Steve was therefore a unique inventor. talk of actualizing dreams – no one did as much.
respect!
if Steve Jobs sucks according to you or doesn’t deserve the praise, you’re just like our country, not respecting, & blind to real heroes
ONE:
show me one more man, business man, American hero, or any human in the world, who has miraculously like a living phoenix, brought a co. from brink at $1B with debt in 1997, to stratospheric rise in 2011! show me.
POSITIVE:
no, i’m not talking of the silly new age positive thinking hype.
Steve was a real positive human, not in the sense of artificial politeness but in getting real results!
the reason he got cancer, despite his extremely humble & healthy lifestyle & diet, is that he had to constantly fight wars with the stupid humans, bureaucrats, technologists, politicians, media etc. that did their best to make his projects fail, standing in his ways with hurdles instead of future hope for growing an economy, as all of Steve’s ideas were beyond the status quo. stress is what causes cancer.
CHALLENGING:
there’s no challenge this man would not take.
whilst the rest of the industry never really changed or leapfrogged,
as it is the iPhone that interrupted their long lazy-ass abuse of users’ money & time & patience & spit on them with lousy user experiences. it is the Mac, not the Xeroxed IBM or Microsoft that brought easy computing to the masses. it is the iPod that was the 1st & only practical honest music device. it is the iPad that did not make the tablet market useless & bankrupt etc.
FLEXIBLE:
Madonna necessitates total respect. give me one more singer or entertainer who constantly risked their career, changing style with every album. Steve & Apple are chameleons. show me another co. that changed or metamorphosed as often and still produced wonders.
HUMANE:
Apple & Steve humanized technology.
so the mass can understand it.
the mass can easily use it.
the mass can afford it.
the mass can raise their sense of aesthetics & art.
show me another inventor or co. that so elegantly matched tech with human form?!
show me one that envisioned how simpler things can be,
and did not just talk but walk the talk.
ARTIST:
and he was not just a turnaround artist.
he had vision. some people invent. some like Steve think beyond that. they are real geniuses as they change things that defy gravity & standards & laws…whilst making them for the masses, not elite few or rich classes, whilst making it all so simple. ubiquity is genius, not inventing prototypes etc.
Steve: One Positive Artist!
no one beats his vision, challenge, poise, flexibility…
no one can maintain such momentum as long and they’re still not done, as Steve prepared a DNA University to resume his genius…even run by a former Dean of Yale’s Business School, recruited in 2008!
every school system in the world is mostly useless. what’s a degree’s worth and all the subjects we waste money & time on, when most of us stay poor?! no school teaches you truly practical real life survival skills.
how often do you meet a real teacher with real life skills – they’re mostly losers who can’t get another job or one in the field they teach at least. certainly our teachers are not usually unconventional or disrupting convention – useless leaders! all the more respect to Apple University for a curriculum which uses tenets that unleash innovation & sustain success!
several corporate universities or programs existed before Apple. but none really worked, for too long, were given up, as they were out of touch. not Apple University (started 2006 but taking off under ex-Yale Biz Dean Podolny in 2008; not Podolny is not a mere theoretical teacher but a biz leader himself! talk of real practical studies!)
never accept the norm or rules.
that kills innovation, evolution.
grow – don’t stagnate.
there’s always a better solution out there.
to the naysayer who still think Steve was insignificant, just think, or think again! be accountable, responsible. like iSteve.
How about we keep the discussions, under this thread, relevant to Russia and their warming up to Steve Jobs and Apple. I would like to think that people who would click on this news might be curious about that stuff than unrelated lengthy passages better suited for a personal blog.