“What is Steve Jobs’s legacy? Here’s one measure: since his death in 2011 from pancreatic cancer, the former Apple CEO has won 141 patents,” Antonio Regalado reports for MIT Technology Review. “That’s more than most inventors win during their lifetimes.”
“Jobs was closely involved in the details of many Apple products, and some of his inventions are still working their way through the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The large number of them reflect Apple’s intense efforts to patent every aspect of its products, no matter how small, something Jobs himself encouraged,” Regalado reports. “Altogether, a third of the 458 patented inventions and designs credited to Jobs have been approved since he died.”
“Jobs’s patent documents are a record of Apple’s history from startup to one of the world’s largest companies. His first patent, won in 1983, is titled simply ‘Personal Computer,'” Regalado reports. “One of the newest, filed after his death and approved in August, covers the design of the dramatic glass cube that’s the entrance to Apple’s store on Fifth Avenue, in Manhattan.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: For what they’re worth. Steve Jobs has been majorly knocked off more times than Michelle Duggar has been knocked up.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Whit D.” for the heads up.]
“‘Though the outside world looks at success from a numerical point of view, my yardstick might be quite different than that, I want to put a ding in the universe. Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.”
‘Steve Jobs Bio: The Unauthorized Autobiography.’
Good quote, but lets not ascribe it to tabloidish unauthorized (auto)biography (though official is tabloidish, too). Jobs has never commented about anything for this book.
What do you think the chances are that Steve Jobs opted for cryonic suspension animation?