Apple Steve Jobs The Crazy Ones - NEVER BEFORE AIRED 1997

Robert Scoble · Top Commenter · Chief Learning Officer at Rackspace Managed Hosting
I love you MG Siegler because you are the biggest Apple fan. Out of all the tech journalists you are consistently the only one I see when I get early access to stuff that's new, you consistently are there. I can't wait to see your name on the next new thing.

Steve Jobs was the first celebrity CEO Silicon Valley produced. Hewlett and Packard arguably made similar contributions to Silicon Valley and to tech, but they existed in an age before blogs. Before YouTube. Before Facebook. Before network television started caring about technology. So, while most people knew the name Hewlett Packard, they didn't really know what the two guys who started the company looked like or sounded like. They didn't have the personal connection that we all have with Steve Jobs and Apple today.

You're right. He's not a celebrity because he wanted to ...See More
91Friday at 7:28pm

Micah Baldwin · Top Commenter · CEO and Chief Community Caretaker at Graphicly
I agree with both you and MG Siegler in the greatness that Jobs became and his clear contribution to society.

But he was a showman, and to be a showman one must seek and attract celebrity. He was able to be the center of the Apple resurgence and its deserved place in history. One must create a cult of personality, whereas the person and the company are interchangeable.

Jobs was a master of this, and something he very much worked towards. It was his shame of getting ousted at Apple and the apparent failure of NeXT that taught him a bit of humility that with Pixar and the amazing success of Apple, he no longer needed to make the effort to be the center of Silicon Valley's entrepreneurial landscape. Yet, he never was overly humble or deflected the praise on folks like Ive and the rest. Sometimes, potentially, to a fault.
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17Friday at 8:19pm

Gordon Quinn · Top Commenter · Plano, Texas
Robert, I like your post and I agree with what you say. I'll add that I think the thing that made SJ different from the rest of the valley is that he started from the goal and worked backwards. The Mac was not an evolution of DOS PCs, it was an implementation of what people would use. The iPhone was not an evolution of the cell phone, it was the implementation of the Internet in your hand... that also made phone calls.

Pay attention Google and Facebook... we don't need incremental changes... we need constant reinvention.
22Friday at 8:25pm

Eric Hth · Menlo Park, California
What you don't understand is that steve jobs legacy is beyond the impact he had on the tech industry. He pursued his dream during his whole life despite adversity and his success gives hope to millions of people.
12Friday at 10:26pm
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Michael Arrington · Top Commenter · Founder at TechCrunch
standing ovation.
44Saturday at 5:57pm

Victor Osaretinvbeniyaghagha Asemota II · Top Commenter · Chief Fanatic at Manchester Utd
Long after I am still standing. "...Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new..." That still resonates in my mind
· Saturday at 7:14pm
maciasgretchen73571821 (signed in using Yahoo)
my best friend's mom makes $74 an hour on the computer. She has been out of job for 9 months but last month her check was $7589 just working on the computer for a few hours. Read about it here http://ManyRich.com
· 4 hours ago

Andrew Brackin · Top Commenter
I hope Apple makes a cut of that ad with Jobs and runs it on TV, that'd be incredible.
24Friday at 7:14pm

Michael Long · Top Commenter
I'd like to see a version of that ad, still narrated by Dreyfuss, but with Steve in the slot occupied by the little girl.
5Saturday at 2:25pm

Andrew Brackin · Top Commenter
Michael Long I agree
· Saturday at 2:26pm

David Hall · Dublin, Ireland
A fine piece and a fitting tribute I'm sure he'd have appreciated. Although to presume to know what Steve Jobs would or wouldn't appreciate is perhaps me over stretching a bit. I've always been proud of my ability to never get sucked into any of the previous global weep fests, whether it was Princess Di, or Elvis or John Lennon or Michael Jackson. On a human level I was sorry they died but their deaths were pretty much an abstraction to me and left me emotionally untouched. Steve Job's passing is a different shooting match altogether and it's made my week a lot worse. I'm not losing perspective, I never met Steve Jobs so it's not the equivalent of a death in the family but it does feel like a death in a way none of the aforementioned ever did and I've been trying to figure out why.

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20Friday at 8:34pm

Drithi Raj · Vidyaniketan public school
love this! touching insight into the emotional connect :)
1Saturday at 9:12am

Michael Long · Top Commenter
I just watched the iPhone introduction again last night, and remember one point where he's scrolling back and forth in the iPod app and quips, "I could do this all night."

You knew that if it delighted Steve, it would delight you.
5Saturday at 2:28pm

David Hall · Dublin, Ireland
thank you Drithi and Michael, especially so for wading though my rather poorly written tribute. In my defense I'll say that I posted in the wee hours.
· Saturday at 2:54pm
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Semil Shah · Top Commenter · Palo Alto, California
Wozniak said earlier this week that Steve Jobs gave mankind the great tools we have ever seen.
18Friday at 6:46pm

Jason Gerard Clauss · Top Commenter · University of Washington
That's true. They're called Apple fanboys.
59Friday at 7:30pm

Fahad Zafar · UMBC
Jason Gerard Clauss : he said tools not trolls !!!
5Friday at 7:32pm

Jason Gerard Clauss · Top Commenter · University of Washington
Exactly.
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Fernando Pereira
MG, I always liked your posts, and this is one of your best. Thank you
13Friday at 7:13pm

Monica Wang · University of Toronto
agree！
· Saturday at 8:44pm

Peter O'Malley · Stillorgan
'About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things.' Even if you're not a fan of Apple products you can't deny the impact Jobs and his company has had on the world.
11Friday at 6:48pm

Lionel Menchaca Jr. · Chief Blogger at Dell
Agree with Robert Scoble on this one MG. Know how much of an Aple fan you've been and continue to be. Though I work for a competitor, no question that all the goo things being written about Steve are true. He was a true visionary, and an innovator in the purest sense of the word.

Kudos to you for such a heartfelt piece. RIP Steve Jobs.
9Friday at 7:37pm

Francine Hardaway · Top Commenter · Columbia University
Interestingly, I thought about you all week, MG, in London by yourself, with this happening and so far away. I know how hard it hit ordinary people, so I can only imagine how it must have been for you. Here at home, we all are singing the blues.
9Friday at 8:08pm

Tyler Hurst · Top Commenter · Actual writer. Event planner. Mischief maker. Speaker. at AntiPRguy
This is the most unified positive reaction to a famous person's death I've experienced. It almost brought people...closer. Never thought that was possible.
2Friday at 9:10pm

Doug Wolfgram · Top Commenter
Tyler Hurst Stephen Colbert's tribute was at once humorous and touching. His closing note brought tears. There are so many people who feel overwhelmed by an event they knew was coming, but hoped never would.
· Saturday at 5:56am

Matt Wright · Texas Tech
Doug Wolfgram You could see Colbert struggling with it. It was funny, and that is what made it even sadder. I loved the email Colbert got from him.
· Saturday at 9:06am

Derek Marler · Shasta High
Don't know why you stated "Perhaps he didn’t know it in 1997 when he recorded this[...]" when he was already making great leaps of change throughout the world BEFORE 1997. Sure, Mac OSX, iPod, iPhone, iPad.... Those came after, but even without those, Steve had already left a life changing mark on society with the PC.

He was a "crazy one" cause he thought outside of the box, going back to the problems themselves and not solely look at the competition. He created what he believed people not only wanted but needed. Before and after 1997, that aspect about Steve Jobs was the same.
6Friday at 6:51pm

MG Siegler · Top Commenter · General Partner at CrunchFund
i agree. but the past 15 years moved him into a different realm. i think that had he not returned to apple, he would have been remembered as a great one down the line, but he forced himself back into the picture in a truly incredible way. and he changed the world a few more times.
8Friday at 7:08pm

Derek Marler · Shasta High
MG Siegler I totally agree to that. He essentially pushed the computing level once again, especially with the whole mobile movement. I just meant the comment of whether he knew he was talking about himself or not in 1997. He's always been a "crazy one" and wanted to push his visions to come into light (which is why he didn't give up after resigning from Apple, by starting NeXT).

He just kept going regardless of the company. When Apple bought NeXT and Steve was back in charge, it was more freedom and technology to do what he (as earlier interviews have shown) has wanted to do with computers for a long time. That is, mobile computing.

When you think about it, it's cool that he was able to complete a lot of his goals and visions during his time. Regardless of age, health, and wealth, he kept going cause he loved what he did. This is why he was a inspiration aside from his innovations.
5Friday at 7:32pm

Luis Diaz
MG Siegler just get over it...
1Friday at 8:12pm
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Avetis Zakharyan · State Engineering University of Armenia
Hey MG, you just wrote a big piece of awesomeness, thank you :)
5Friday at 9:54pm

James Kooi · Washington
Well said, I always enjoy your posts. Thanks MG.
5Friday at 6:50pm

Greg Kostello · Founder and CTO at VMIX Media
Thank you, MG Siegler. Extremely well said. He started young and had a huge impact for decades. But he wasn't done. In fact, it felt like he was just getting started.

The Mac is mature and brilliant but the iPhone and iPad, though amazing and transformative, are just emerging in their impact. I feel like there will be so much more to come. The transparent integration of physical world and digital services has not yet been achieved but Apple is on the right path. Steve was the visionary, taking us down the path. Cancer cut that vision short.

Perhaps Steve's greatest legacy will be the technologists he inspired who will continue to create insanely great products.
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4Friday at 8:41pm

Diane Michlig · San Jose, California
I've read so many posts on Steve Jobs...I must confess I've been almost addicted to it. Perhaps it's the way I process his death... grieve the loss of such a brilliant mind. Thank you for putting into words what so many people feel. I will celebrate his life every time I use one of his beautiful products!
4Friday at 9:52pm

Sean J. Vaughan
Steve Jobs was Santa Claus. He brought new presents to the world about every 6 months. I don't like Santa passing away.
4Saturday at 11:29am

Rick Rodriguez
Wow, simply amazing post. Nailed it. Epic but subtle last sentence, "and he did."
4Friday at 7:19pm

Mary Covert Sarver · Michigan State University
Well written MG. My sentiments exactly.
4Friday at 6:57pm

Shanmuga Subramanian · Top Commenter · Chennai (Madras), India
The above lines perfectly suits me :)

But don't get saddened by loss of Jobs..he is the prime example who showed us that not only ideas but executions also matter..He never compromised on perfection..

I wish he could have done more for US and the World..
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3Friday at 6:50pm

Tobias Lewsadder · La Canada Flintridge, California
Well said MG.
I was thinking about Jobs last night and the effect he has had on the personal computing industry when I remembered that Steve was instrumental in bring GUI to the masses and years later a big part in bringing touch as well. iTunes and iOS aside, Steve Jobs in a way influenced the way we all physically interact with our CPUs.
That in itself is huge but the list goes on. This is truly a sad time for the industry and the world.
3Friday at 7:40pm

Gordon Quinn · Top Commenter · Plano, Texas
MG - I think SJ would scold you on one point: you write this from the perspective of a tech blogger and that was not his audience. 'Attention to detail' and 'design excellence' are things that reviewers think about. Steve Jobs was way beyond that. His focus was on delivering magic. Magic on the screen, magic on the desktop, and magic in your hand. I miss the magician already.
3Friday at 8:16pm

M Sajid Khan · Founder at IStartUS
No man on his death bed looks into the eyes of his family and friends say " I wish I had spent more time in office." - I am pretty sure Steve was no exception. RIP Steve. I love you everything you did for us...
3Saturday at 1:43pm

Matthew Geyster · Top Commenter
Your the man MG. Well written.
3Friday at 7:29pm

Doug Mumford · Consultant at Adobe Systems
I think one additional reason for the emotion around Steve's death is that Apple seemed to be one of the only entities in the world, political, business, or otherwise, that seemed to buck the current feeling that everything is in decline. Even with tech companies, so much is a disappointment. The world economy, the market crashes, unemployment; all have created a feeling of pessimism - Apple was one of the only antidotes. Watching Steve's keynotes, waiting for the next device or update, was incredibly exciting for those that loved Apple's products. And when Steve died we all wonder if at some point a few years into the future that amazing record of innovation will slow too...
2Friday at 9:44pm

Karen Gallahan Coulter · Senior Consultant II at Appian
Well said, MG. I was one of those who inescipably found myself in tears Wed night on hearing the news of his passing. I was late to appreciating Apple products, but the iPhone 3G was followed by the iPad, iPhone4, iPad2, MacBook Pro and soon the iPhone4S. I fell in love the first time I picked up that phone. Apple will survive and even thrive, but there wll probably not be an innovator like Steve in my lifetime. Rest In Peace, Steve Jobs. You will be missed.
2Friday at 7:39pm

Ed Shahzade · Üst Düzey Yorumcu
"It’s the everyday people that simply used and loved his products" Long story short: I'm a huge Steve Jobs fan, and I don't even own or use any Apple products right now. But I just wanted to add that I appreciate all he's accomplished, without even benefiting from "his products" daily. (I do look forward to).
2Cuma, 21:22

Jack Inman
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2Cuma, 18:56

Ajitha Sundararaman
In deep empathy of the struggle which Steve went thru...Almost fell in luv wit the opening text, which says, to all de crazy ones....& rebells....it connects to all your blind yet powerful spots of ma life.
2, 05:09

Jacqueline Costa · Master in Business Administration
And he did it.
2, 14:02

Colin Summers
Jobs was pretty good about intellectual property and other people's work. You might want to link your use of that gorgeous image to this article: http://news.discovery.com/tech/apple-logo-steve-jobs-111007.html.
1Cuma, 20:03

MG Siegler · Üst Düzey Yorumcu · CrunchFund'da General Partner
link is there
1Cuma, 21:01

Erin Elizabeth · Indiana University
No offense but somehow you ended up with a FAKE one without the original voice (some guy probably in his basement who did a bad dubover) HEre's the original... MUCH MUCH better The real one. Not a bad copy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oAB83Z1ydE.
1Cuma, 19:54

MG Siegler · Üst Düzey Yorumcu · CrunchFund'da General Partner
um, as i note in the post, while the one from the commercial (which you linked to) is dreyfuss, the one i include is... steve jobs.
11Cuma, 21:04

Michael A. Robson · Üst Düzey Yorumcu · Shanghai, China
Erin, ... so you just referred to Steve Jobs as 'some guy' in a post dedicated to Steve Jobs, eh? Smooth~~~~
1, 02:25

Phivos Chagal
Great and accurate writing MG. Jobs' impact on our world is still to be fully realized yet. Be Human, work to the best of your abilities, offer the world something that can be used as effectively as possible, nurture the inner self through pleasing aesthetics. There are a few things that resonate with me from the man's life. Here is a guy with enormous power and wealth and yet lives in a simple neighborhood, values his family above all and acknowledges through his lifestyle that what really matters is to be Human. When you look at his presentations they are the presentations of a working man, not just some executive who has been given a product to promote. If there is anything Apple's competitors and the world at large can learn from SJ's life is this: Human's do not really seek continuous change but continuous improvement.
1, 00:09

Ibrahim Khan · TSG'da Software Analyst
Inspired by Steve , I started a tech blog focusing more on iDevice and iPhone and related technology trends. In our list of most influentia­l people Steve topped. Now after Steve, its going difficult. I am selling my site. http://www­.ijunkey.c­om/. https://fl­ippa.com/2­643230-iju­nkey-techn­ology-spec­ialist-wit­h-lots-of-­tutorials-­and-fixes-­iphone-ipa­d

If anyone can take over this site, it would be great. I love you Steve.
1, 00:16

Victor Hanna · San Mateo, California
Breaking: Word has it that Steve Jobs has been anointed CEO of 'The Cloud' by a higher power. That didn't take long : ) Great Post.
1Cuma, 19:09

Calvin Schmidt · Üst Düzey Yorumcu · Rice
I normally don't like mgs doting over apple. But he got this post exactly right. Jobs will be missed.
1Cuma, 18:51

Daniel Cool
I read that when Coke's CEO went to his house, he saw only one picture hanging in his house: Einstein. Jobs greatly admired Einstein. Can you say something about this?
1Cuma, 20:28

Blake J. Graham · Üst Düzey Yorumcu · Notre Dame, Indiana
Here's to our future. iI's our turn now.Thanks, MG. http://goo.gl/SHUoI
1Cuma, 18:43

Blake J. Graham · Üst Düzey Yorumcu · Notre Dame, Indiana
It's* Literacy. Wow.
Cuma, 22:27

Behzad Behrouzi · Üst Düzey Yorumcu · San Francisco, California
All I can say after watching that video is "Goosbumps..." Simply awesome!
1Cuma, 19:09

Lucas Rayala · Üst Düzey Yorumcu · Hamline University
Thanks MG. A fitting tribute. When they look back at this era, at this time when mankind pivoted to something new, the will look at Steve Jobs as a Thomas Edison, a Leonardo the Vinci, as a man who defined what we were to become.
1Cuma, 22:07

Lucas Rayala · Üst Düzey Yorumcu · Hamline University
and seriously, Facebook, I tried to write this friggin' post 10 times-- yes, I MEANT "DA" Vinci! Stop changing my flippin words, yo!
Cuma, 22:08

Gary Kevorkian
One of the most compelling pieces I've read since Steve's passing.
1Cuma, 19:50

Dan Gribbin · Pittsburgh
Sums it perfectly. Thanks man. Great read.
1Cuma, 18:53

Eric Hth · Menlo Park, California
Sorry, pointless article.
1Cuma, 19:33

Pankaj Goswami · NetWorld Web services'te Business Development Executive
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation...
1Cuma, 22:27

William Kwil · Üst Düzey Yorumcu · Petersham TAFE
MG Seigler has Stevomania Jobs wagon fever.
1Cuma, 22:04

David A Smith · Üst Düzey Yorumcu · London, United Kingdom
The word genius is thrown around too liberally these days. Einstein was a genius; Jobs was a successful CEO brave enough to challenge the status quo.
1, 01:46

Dan Sfera · University of Arizona
I would say genius bro
1, 02:29

David A Smith · Üst Düzey Yorumcu · London, United Kingdom
Dan Sfera Then you'd be wrong, dude
02:30

Dan Sfera · University of Arizona
David A Smith he was a successful ceo brave enough to challenge the status quo AND a genius. I win
1, 02:41
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Alan Weinkrantz · Alan Weinkrantz And Company'da El Presidente
Let this moment in time inspire us to raise our own personal bar in all parts of our lives.
1, 04:52

Sa Ma · Üst Düzey Yorumcu · San Francisco, California
Great post, MG! The only thing I would add, is Steve Jobs will not be remember in 50 years, the same way Beatles or Louis Armstrong might. He will be remembered like a Gutenberg, or Edison. People have emotional attachment to music and will convey that emotion to its creator. In 50 years, people will know who was innovator of personal computing and the real smartphones. But it'll only be for history geeks, or future entrepreneurs who to admire him the way we admire Jobs today.

And these future entrepreneurs are what I think to be Jobs' best and least talked about innovation. The unrelenting, exacting, demanding and perfectionist CEOs. Likes of Zuckerberg and loads of other young entrepreneurs who model themselves after Jobs. That will push their people harder than otherwise to create much better products and services as the result. Products eventually die out, but cultures can live forever. And this will be Jobs' lasting contribution!
1, 12:22

Andreea Diana
Great quote, Sa Ma: " Products eventually die out, but cultures can live forever. And this will be Jobs' lasting contribution!"
2, 12:25

Sa Ma · Üst Düzey Yorumcu · San Francisco, California
Thanks...it came from heart.
1, 12:28

Dushyant Vaghela · Üst Düzey Yorumcu · Feelings2share.com'da Founder
“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true."
1, 20:37

Juan Bermudez
Let's hope people feel like this when mr.gates passes. Even though he did not invent the MacBook & iPhone I use every day his contribution to humanity goes beyond consumer products.
1, 21:16

Saleh Yosef
I use one of his beautiful products, i respect the man, Actually, because of him apple continues to release incredibly popular products..
1Dün, 02:28

Mannar Karyampudi · Üst Düzey Yorumcu · CBIT
Who is more crazy?
Jobs or Gates?
1Cuma, 18:57

Jonathan Badeen · Üst Düzey Yorumcu · Cramster'de Mobile Engineer
I've never read anything that would make me thing Gates was "crazy" in the way you imply. He was opportunistic and calculating. I don't mean that in a bad way necessarily. He simply was no Steve Jobs.
2Cuma, 20:45

Mannar Karyampudi · Üst Düzey Yorumcu · CBIT
Jonathan Badeen Well Bill Gates dreamed of putting a computer in every home. Is that not crazy enough?
1Cuma, 20:52

Alan Carl Brown · Üst Düzey Yorumcu · San Jose, California
Crazy in this context means swimming against the current of the rest of humanity. If the things he proposed came out of an average person's mouth, they'd be disregarded by those who strive to always be in agreement with the consensus.

When Steve Jobs threw away the stylus, handwriting recognition and the keyboard, and gave us the finger (pun totally intended) instead, it really was a departure from convention.
3Cuma, 21:40
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Ben Levi · RentingSmart'ta Founder
Great post by MG Siegler.
1Cuma, 18:52

Joel Rojo · Cambridge, Massachusetts
Beautiful.
1Cuma, 18:51

Jay Shaw · McGill Üniversitesi
Very well said MG.
1Cuma, 19:59

Tyler Hughes · MTOW'da Lead Developer
well said.
1Cuma, 18:50

Shiela Virtusio
well said.:)
1Cuma, 20:32

Thordur Arnason · Oslo, Norway
My mail to rememberingsteve@apple.com:

Dear Steve,

I never met you, never talked to you and now you're gone. Yet you set.

17:21

George Providakes
I was at a Jiifylube getting my car's oil changed and all the staff (3) talked about Steve Jobs and the effect he had on them through his technology. When Jobs said Apple built the kind of computers and devices and Services they wanted for themselves, it showed a care for the customer that does not exist in the industry. The reason there is no junkware on a Mac, that your private information is not for sale, etc is because Jobs and Apple respect the user not exploit the user. Jobs and Apple assume consumers know value and will invest in it, not just because it is cool, though it is, not because it's elegant and simple, it is, not because they are entranced by Jobs, though he was an amazing salesman, but because it was for them to live their lives better. He will be sorely missed, but hope springs that his legacy at Apple respecting the consumer will live on.
16:20

Grant Xavier Storer · FedEx'de Handler
Great article. I hadn't seen the Jobs' version of the Think Different ad.
I'm definitely one of those people that exclaimed how I didn't expect it to hit me as much as it did when I finally heard the news.

I wrote a blog summarizing the impact Jobs had on my whole family. Jobs was always about inspiring others, hopefully I could his impact on me to inspire others.

http://grantxstorer.tumblr.com/
15:33

Marc Picornell · Hewlett-Packard'da CTO & Open Source Lead
Steve change my life for ever a long time ago. I think it is time now to do something. Innovator are key peoples to work on the problem that our civilization is facing. We need great innovator like Steve. To find the NeXT big innovator I'm trying to start http://www.i-nov.org The i-NOV Fondation to reward great innovator with the Steve Prize. If you are intrested feel free to join me.
16:33

Rodrigo Silva · João Pessoa, Brazil
"Thousand years"? I don´t think so.
I really think SJ was a great man. One can even say a business/designer/technologist genius. But I have my doubts about he being just "genius".
Aristotle is being talked about thousands years after his death. Einstein will have the same destiny. As will Charles Darwin. Those are the people that really stand the test of time. Those are the people that really changed humankind.
"Thousand years"? Maybe a couple of hundred years ;).
21:24

Pablo Sánchez · Buenos Aires, Argentina
Have you seen this tribute? http://tothecrazyone.com
16:35

Siddharth Sharma · American President Lines'te çalışıyor
"Sure, he was famous, but he did not seek fame. Nor did he need it. The main goal of his career was not to sell his image." I loved Steve.Big fan. Have read a few books on him. That part doesn't fit somehow, I think :)
19:02

Gregory Carlos Rawiński · Anglia Ruskin University
Q: Where is Steve Jobs now?
Siri: Steve Jobs is reinventing heaven.

RIP Steve Jobs.

Twitter @GRawinski
18:04

Joe Dawson · Üst Düzey Yorumcu · Propaganda Leeds'te Promoter
Ahab says “I don’t care who you are, here’s to your dream”. The old sailors return to the bar.’.

“Here’s to you, Ahab” and the phat drummer hit the beat with all his heart’.
20:57

Nicholas Hoskins · Üst Düzey Yorumcu · San Francisco, California
The only one who will remember dear Steve a thousand years from now will be Siri as the iPhone 10 will have taken over the planet long before then. Just sayin.
22:04
sawyersidney65019189(Yahoo'yu kullanarak oturum açtı)
my best friend's mom makes $77 an hour on the computer. She has been out of job for 9 months but last month her check was $7487 just working on the computer for a few hours. Read about it here NuttyRich.com.
23:30

Pf Answers · Üst Düzey Yorumcu · 29 yaşında
Steve knew a simple fact that the key to successful products is simplistic design and ease of use and not adding some fancy stuff..He knew that his competition would never get this point and hence would never come close to Apple..
Dün, 02:34

David Hall · Dublin, Ireland
Thanks Nicholas, we are, of course, singing from the same hymn sheet. The important bit is that once that level of trust was established neither you, nor I, ever suffered an experience, with the product, sufficient to shake it. We were rewarded for our loyalty with great product and so we never hesitated to buy again. That's one hell of a virtuous cycle.
Dün, 03:55

Mack Luke · L
steve jobs exploited chinese workers, chose profit over people rot in hell BASTARD!
Dün, 05:34

Charlotte James
Let go, he's gone and we don't need that anger on the planet.
Be and let be.... Forgiveness
Love and light Mac be the light you are :))
Dün, 05:41

Khan Manka Jr. · Üst Düzey Yorumcu · Manka Bros. Studios'ta Chairman & CEO
Hollywood is out of visionaries... they're all in Silicon Valley now. And that's just sad.

http://mankabros.com/blogs/chairman/2011/09/28/hollywood-is-out-of-visionaries/
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Peter Urban · Smibs Inc'da Founder/President
Best TC post ever.
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Syed Ali Zar Zaidi · Just Cricket ( Crickipedia )'da Player
He was really an amazing personality who gave the concepts of being a promoted world and provided one of the best technological concepts.
http://www.vidjin.com/worldnews/6/
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Nitin Chandra Salgar
People will remember MJ forever. But Comparing him to Steve jobs is blind foolishness.
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Edwin Anthony · Central Lancashire Üniversitesi
He was just an exploitative profiteering capitalist bastard who could afford to appropriate the ideas of many who gave up their intellectual property rights to be a part of Apple. Rebel my ass. I'd reserve that accolade for the likes of Gandhi, JFK, Marx, amongst others.

http://www.according2ed.com/2011/10/steve-jobs-is-dead-long-live-next.html
Dün, 03:14

Edwin Anthony · Central Lancashire Üniversitesi
Calling this git Jobs a 'radical', 'rebel' and other such terms is nonsense.

The likes of Gandhi, John F Kennedy, Karl Marx, Jesus, Buddha, Guru Nanak, amongst others, appealed to our humanity.

Jobs and his cronies simply appealed to, and reinforced, our self-absorption and immaturity.
Dün, 03:42

Edward Anat Junprung · Fudan University
http://epicstep.com/campaign/336/1955-2011-steve-jobs-rip-tribute/
05:15

Joel Falconer · Gold Coast, Queensland
Good bit of writing, MG. I've seen so many non-techies comparing Jobs' death to Jackson's death, usually to say that Jobs was not as important, and I think you've nailed right here all the reasons that makes me want to shake them out of their stupor.
04:24

Eugene Alter
version with Steve (last person) - http://youtu.be/KbiyUdVf9xs.
02:10

Ciarán Norris · Üst Düzey Yorumcu · Dublin, Ireland
1000 years? If hyperbole can jump a shark, I think I just saw the Fonz. Is there any danger of some perspective? Amazing talent, amazing salesman, a 21st Century Henry Ford. It is possible to be respectful and not believe he was the second coming.
05:16

Jonathan Zufi · Atlanta, Georgia
Great post.. and the world has definitely lost an icon, but as someone with a wife and kids, to me the real tragedy of Jobs passing is the loss of a father and husband way before his time.
04:29

Alexei Bezruchko · Belarusian Research Institute for Epidemiology and Microbiology'da Research Scientist
Mr Siegler, this is the best, most moving and inspiring thing I have ever had the honour to read!
03:14

I love my iPad!
“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
-Chuck Palahniuk
04:08

William Palmer · Edinburgh, United Kingdom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW8fDw8VzKI
07:32

Lorraine Treanor
Mike Daisey points out today in the NY Times "With his death, the serious work to do the things he has failed to do will fall to all of us: the rebels, the misfits, the crazy ones who think they can change the world." More posted here. http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/10/08/mike-daisey-urges-a-deeper-look-at-the-legacy-of-steve-jobs/
09:21

Javier Gonzalo Alvarado Silva · Royal Holloway
I never thought I could be so busted up about the death of Steve Jobs, someone I never met. But I was. He was my iDol.... Here is MY very own Goodbye to Mr Jobs http://www.mobilemasterscommunity.com/blog/guest-blogger/steve-jobs-my-idol/.
09:21

Mark Hernandez · Information Workshop'ta Owner
"Steve Jobs - Thanks From the Unheard" http://informationworkshop.org/2011/10/06/steve-jobs-thanks-from-the-unheard/.
10:02

Carl Hancock · Üst Düzey Yorumcu · Virginia Beach, Virginia
Apple needs to air that commercial with Steve Jobs included at the end. It would be most fitting.
09:47

R Paul Singh · Social Nuggets'te CEO
I was sitting in Palo alto ca ( steve jobs lives here) and looked around at every table at this coffee house and saw that every person on every table had at least one and sometimes more Than one of steve jobs gadgets open on the table whether it was iMac, iPad or iPhone. I got curious and repeated the same exercise at 3 other coffee shops and saw the same thing. I don't know if any one person or company has ever permeated everyday lives of so many people. Long live Steve Jobs.

I am curious if it is different phenomena in the cities you live?
14:44

Akshay Sharma
What is interesting is Dr Deepak Chopra said the same thing at a recent lecture I attended...it's amazing that a person who was given up for adoption, had dropped out of school, was fired from a company he started...could accomplish so much...
15:03

R Paul Singh · Social Nuggets'te CEO
Akshay Sharma Well said. All these failures and family issues made him stronger. Moreover, Silicon Valley's culture of not writing someone off due to failure also helped him. I wonder if he had not rejoined Apple would he be so successful or his creations would have ended in also ran like next computer work he did?
18:42

Doug Wolfgram · Üst Düzey Yorumcu
Amen MG. Amen.
05:58

Bishwajit Aich · Yahoo!'da çalışıyor
love this post..
07:11

Jimmy Park
iSad, iHeaven and iRespect from ji sung.
10:06

Sumesh Narayanan · Coimbatore Institute of Technology
Great Post! Thanks much.
10:19

Colin Brown · Cambridge, New Zealand
I too feel deeply saddened by his passing. Yes - here's to the crazy ones!
15:17

Siddharth Sharma · American President Lines'te çalışıyor
People what about this article : http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/06/opinion/jobs-looked-to-the-future.html?
23:18

Alan Ofoedu
When I was a child I would look forward to Christmas day. You kind of new you were going to get something special, something you would love, but you didn't quite know for sure what it was.

For the last 10yrs the apple key notes have been like a Christmas day for many of us. Steve Jobs passing kind of feels like Father Christmas ain't here no more...

RIP Steve Jobs.
Dün, 01:46

David Güera
As usual, a great piece of MG. I also share with you a little of that fear from the years ahead without him.

On the other hand, I'm looking forward to see what Apple will show us in the next 5 to 10 years. It'll be a tough time but I think that the best years for Apple are still to come. Steve assembled the best team in the world.

I can't wait to read his biography.
Dün, 02:09

Jeff Martens · Üst Düzey Yorumcu · Oregon
best piece I've read since his passing, an appropriately so.
22:43

Robert Lee · Berkeley
life expectancy goes up as you get older. the life expectancy of an 80 year old is obviously greater than 76.
Dün, 01:02

Felix Mulindahabi · Mazoof.com'da CEO & Founder
check out Mazoof.com.
23:09

David Koff · UPenn
I love this piece, MG, but you've only touched on two of the three reasons why people are mourning the loss of steve jobs:

1) the emotional ties that folks have to apple products. absolutely.
2) his being so young when he died, robbing us of his genius and more innovations. shocking.


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Jose Ali Vivas · The Woodlands, Texas
Nice Article. This commercial is a radical truth. He was the crazy enough to change the world. A real genius. Today , watching a keynote from 1998, before 2.5 years since his comeback, he did a masterful gambling when he drop the world "interim" -interim CEO- and stay only with iCEO. Today may be this "i" denote iNmortal CEO. That was Steve Jobs. For Eric Schmidt the best CEO of the last 50 years. You need passion and total resilience to achieve that.
Cuma, 22:32

Kiran Chowdary Kundanagurthy
What? An iPod or iPhone are greatest inventions. Come on, don't joke. They are just different versions of things we already had. And more over they are making our lives sick eating away human productivity most of the cases. Steve acquired celebrity status through various means and ways. And this is the week he died, so lets not spell out emotional statements now which would be less reasonable.
Cuma, 22:36

James Devonport Wood · Üst Düzey Yorumcu · PageHub'da CEO/Founder
Really wonderful post. I was surprised by how effected I was to hear the news, it really does close the chapter on the first age of computing for human kind, from the first usable computer up to the iPhone today.

I just really hope there is someone out there who learnt from Steve's vision and is able to pick up the baton and move us forward again, technology needs someone with his passion, presence and vision.
01:16

Leon Jacobs · Saatchi & Saatchi
I believe I have been inspired by his passing. That is his legacy. Not that he made good computers, phones or MP3 players, but that he did so with purpose.
Cuma, 23:52

Narayan Babu · Üst Düzey Yorumcu · Ernakulam
Steve chose the tough path, and was stubborn and determined enough to stick to it, come what may.
At the same time, we should not compare legends, whether MJ is bigger or Steve is. Let us just cherish their legacy.
01:30

Torbjørn Kristoffersen · Somerset West, Western Cape
Well written! In honor of Steve I made a small video (in iMovie, ofcourse). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edaQyINe5oQ
00:42

Cai Chen · University of North Texas
Where did you get the picture from? Please refer to the original designer! Thanks
Cuma, 23:17

EJ Campbell · Yahoo!'da Technical Yahoo!
See the bottom of the post: [image: Jonathan Mak]
01:27

Ethan Yang · Stanford University
steve jobs was both brilliant and inspirational. he was more influential and transformative in the tech field than anyone, both here at homeland and globally. but you sir, like many apple fanboys are in steve's "reality distortion field." the very idea that he made basic scientific, or technological, advancements equivalent to edison and einstein--or even to bardeen, who invented the transistor with shockley--or jack s kilby, who invented the integrated circuit--or even to last year's nobel laureates, whose names almost no-one knows....is laughable. to say that his achievements on incremental, third order innovations, will be remembered for a thousand years is short sighted and disrespectful to those that have came before him. keep his achievements in perspective, celebrate the man's life and mourn his untimely death.
12:10

Dave Marcoot · Baltimore, Maryland
I whole heartily agree with the authors conclusion. I have been using Macs since 1991 and following Apples resurgence under jobs since he came back. And with his passing what I fond I am most impressed with is how much he loved what he did and cared about Apple. And that love and attention to detail in his products was immediately apparent to everyone who used them.

Gruber has said Apple is he greatest creation and he is right. Most CEOs would have quit years ago faced with his health problems, He literally stayed with Apple until he could no longer manage it. That he would pass away only weeks after resigning I find very to be a very telling of the emotional connection he had with his creation.

When he was deciding whether to come back to Apple in 97 he spoke with Larry Ellison. This is what jobs said of that phone call: ""When I was trying to decide whether to come back to Apple or not I struggled. I talked to a lot of people and got a lot of opinions. And then there I was, late one night, struggling with this and I called up a friend of mine at 2am. I said, 'should I come back, should I not?' and the friend replied, 'Steve, look. I don't give a fuck about Apple. Just make up your mind' and hung up. And it was in that moment that I realized I truly cared about Apple."

I wonder now about the timing of death and if he managed to hold on long enough to see one more product released into the world.
13:53

David Fox · Biomimicry.com'da Founder
The 2009 documentary Art & Copy http://www.artandcopyfilm.com provides insight into the creation of this advert and the 1984 spot. Ironically I was watching just this week via Netflix. I second the earlier comment that Apple should run this again!
10:07

Francisco Medina · Üst Düzey Yorumcu · Bronx, New York
Steve Jobs, a great simple man, with a great idea. This represents the success of the ordinary people. There is no doubt about it. An adopted child by a normal an regular family, become, I think, one the greatest tech guru of our time. This guy is comparable with people like Einstein, Pasteur, Graham Bell, etc...

Simple: the guy had a dream, funded a company in his house garage, and just did it. JUST DO IT MAN! That's the message.

Apple Inc, The number one company of the world, thanks to a simple, intelligent and dreamer guy: Steve Jobs. RIP Man!
13:24

Prem Nath Garg
It is frustrating to know the passing away of Steve Jobs....The whole world will be poorer without him and it will be difficukt to fill the void left by his passing away.
10:32

Austin Seraphin · Capitol College
I wrote a tribute from the perspective of a blind user. Enjoy. http://behindthecurtain.us/2011/10/05/the-death-of-steve-jobs/
11:49

Felix Oghină · Sparktech Software'de çalışıyor
And now, for a slightly different point of view: http://stallman.org/archives/2011-jul-oct.html#06_October_2011_(Steve_Jobs).

Don't get me wrong, I respect the guy. He was brilliant. Evil brilliant, unfortunately.
14:12

Thomas Oppong · Üst Düzey Yorumcu · Accra, Ghana
SJ goes down as one of the greatest innovators of not only our time but of any time indeed. Great post MG.
12:53

Bill Moore · Attending South Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary
A very reasoned and well thought out post thanks!
13:50

Anirudh Chhabria · Montgomery Upper Middle School
This is just an amazing tribute to Steve Jobs.
13:44