“I spent this past week in Dublin at Web Summit, and I couldn’t help but notice, we are still fascinated, dare I say obsessed with the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs more than three years after his death,” Rom Miller reports for TechCrunch. “If you knew the man or even had a meeting with him back in the day, interviewers wanted to hear about it.”
“It seems if you had any connection to Jobs, you’re in demand,” Miller reports. “Jobs died over three years ago, but his influence on the technology industry will very likely go on for a long time to come, and if Web Summit was any indication, our desire to hear stories about a man who had so much impact on the industry will likely continue too.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Of course he does.
Weird, I was just thinking of Steve when I clicked on MDN and saw this link. I doubt if he will ever be far from our minds.
3 years is very little really; though we will be saying the same thing 30 years after…. “we are still fascinated, dare I say obsessed with the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs”.
I owe my career to Steve Jobs. Being a Mac Tech is the coolest job I could have hoped for. I’ve met some of the most creative, artistic, talented people in the creative industry. I once worked on Ralph Lauren’s Mac. And this was after working 14 years for GM. My coworkers thought I was crazy leaving my cushy factory job to pursue a career in graphic design, which eventually lead me to the technical side of the business.
SJ – forever my hero…
Met him only once briefly.
Steve was on the Apple booth floor with news-photogs just after the Keynote on release of the MacBook Air.
Steve was absolutely surrounded by people about 10 feet away from the pedestal holding a sealed up MacBook Air. Steve looked a bit ‘unrelaxed’ or apprehensive as he was peppered with questions.
Then Steve looked over at me next to the Mac Book Air and I just gave him a thumbs up and he put on a great big smile.
You made Steve SMILE.
Fantastic!
I was at that Macworld too!
For the next 500 years Humankind will still be talking about Steve Jobs!!!
Yeah last time I checked they still talk of DaVinci, Einstein, Euclid, Ben Franklin, Thomas Edison, Nicholas Tesla, Madam Curie, Galileo, Copernicus and many others. 🙂
Bill Gates not so much and Steve Ballmer will only be an unfortunate footnote in Clown College & the Uncle Festering museum.
Oh I think Bill Gates will be remembered along with Steve Job’s, but agree completely on Ballmer take. Or maybe for overpaying the most for a sports team in the history of the world
Lessons that last 500 years are core values:
1. Giving customers what they want and
2. being able to see what they will want 1 and 2 and 3 decades downstream as technology and society advance.
He was a one off… a legend.
Miss you Steve. X
I will never forget SJ! Ever!
Speaking of Steve’s shadow: I’m reading a new book about Nikola Tesla. It’s easily the best of his biographies. Guess who is constantly being compared to Tesla in the book! You know who…
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17130499-tesla
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/5-things-you-didnt-know-about-nikola-tesla/
Many have characterized Tesla and inventor Thomas Edison as enemies (see this and this,) but Carlson says this relationship has been misrepresented. Early in his career, Tesla worked for Edison, designing direct current generators, but famously quit to pursue his own project: the alternating current induction motor. Sure, they were on different sides of the so-called “Current Wars,” with Edison pushing for direct current and Tesla for alternating current. But Carlson considers them the Steve Jobs and Bill Gates of their time: one the brilliant marketer and businessman and the other a visionary and “tech guy.”
There is absolutely NOTHING special about Bill. Everything Bill has he got because of Steve Jobs. Everything MS had was a ripoff of apple stuff.
Schmidt and Google is just latest the modern day version of Gates.
I’m not into the Edison ≈ Gates analogy either. The closest I could come to comparing the two is that they were both profound liars and shysters (IMHO of course) for the purpose of their own aggrandizement and personal wealth. Was Gates inventive at all? Edison, despite is dark bent, was extremely inventive. Gates can be written off as a manipulative opportunist who left a legacy of embrace, extend and extinguish in the contemporary corporate culture, alongside some meagre and outright awful crapware that has hobbled the computer community for a full generation. Soon may it die and rot away.
It thrills me to set up a new Mac for a PC person. Delivering them from computer Hell created by Gates and Co. the stiff minded, uncreative, copiers of Apple. I most enjoy someone at work asking to switch to a Mac. Had that pleasure last week.
I miss Steve every day. A photo of him sitting cross legged on the floor leaning over an old little Mac in his lap is on my desktop to greet me every morning. I remember the old “chime” on those little original Macs reminded me of the opening chord to the Beatles song “Help!” (Which isn’t surprising with Steve’s love of The Beatles) On the new Macs the chime chords are a bit deeper sounding.
To borrow from another of Steve’s faves: those are the Chimes of Freedom flashing.
The opening chord you are thinking of is from A Hard Day’s Night. Help! starts right into the lyric, “Help, I need somebody”
DUH! Yeah you’re right. That’s what I meant! I’m getting’ old damn it!!
Microsoft: the last bastion of mediocre tech leadershit & technology.
Unfortunately not. There too many who follow in the Bill Gates / Microsoft vision of mediocracy.
Sometimes i wish i would have been introduced to SJ earlier in life which may have given me the chance to work for him or just meet him in person.