Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech 2005

harry_nutz (signed in using Yahoo)
Form over function. A business built on the wallets of the gullible.


Dominic Pettifer · Top Commenter · University of Abertay Dundee
Apple stuff is expensive isn't it. It's funny how the gullible seem to have all the money.


John Biggs · Top Commenter · Gadgets Editor at TechCrunch
Again and again, harry_nutz is the lone voice in the wilderness crying the truth.


Andy Powell · Top Commenter
"funny how the gullible seem to have all the money"

.... or the biggest debt.


Fouad Allaoui · Top Commenter · San Francisco, California
you guys missed the most important one: Black sweaters and blue jeans. He has a patent for that....


Yurix Kurat
are you serious?


Shivendra Tiwari · Jaipur, Rajasthan
YUP


Dustin Mann
of course he's serious....snark


Samuel Harrington · Software developer, Graphic Design, and Project Management at Right App Dev
@harry_nuts could you sell a three year old windows pc for 750 $? I think not. I understand your mommy bought you a outer for christmas? Mac is expensive but it is for professionals just as a dew alt screw gun would be comparably higher priced than a black and decker screw gun. People who dis apple are purely ignorant. Go find a laptop made of aluminum, with a quad core i7 for cheaper than apple will sell you one? Apple uses quality hardware and doesn't sell white trash PC's so I'm not sure what you do for a living but steve jobs is a saint and one of the greatest minds of all times..Not to mention he has cancer so if anyone is being a dick about him resigning check yourselves..All the money in the world can't buy you health and more time with your family.


Amanda Rose · N. Central IL
harry nuts? hahaha sorry thats all i got from this.


Jason Doyle
Well said :)


Derek Blasutti · Web-developer at Red Tag Vacations
Considering the cheapest macbook that comes with a quadcore is $1499 (for a 13 inch screen), the alienware MX17 is the same price, with more RAM, significantly better video card and a much larger screen.

Here's the thing, you can buy a cheap PC/Laptop and compare it to a significantly more expensive Mac and the Mac will win time and time again. But when you compare a quality PC/Laptop with it's Mac counter, the same options will cost you more on a Mac.

As for him being a saint... wow. Shouldn't he accomplish something more than just providing toys to the world before we grant him that?


Kevin Ebaugh · Top Commenter · Boston, Massachusetts
I was expecting to see rounded corners on this list.


Jonathan Frederickson · Top Commenter · Atlantic Cape Community College
"The dual-mode, travel-friendly adapter has yet to be copied by any Windows PC maker, which is rather confusing seeing their obsession with cloning the MacBook Pro."

Uhm yes... because, I dunno... it's patented?

And Apple has a patent on glass staircases? Seriously?


Kevin Van Ness · Lead Community Manager at Wargaming America Inc.
Well, Apple could easily license it out -- assuming they wanted to.

And yeah, that is odd he patented that. What about the glass house?


Max Hofer · Oslo, Norway
ridiculous to see what you can get patented these days...a glass staircase? seriously???
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jonnyijapan (signed in using Yahoo)
The glass staircase is great in the Tokyo store? Why, because a lot of chicks around here wear skirts and part of the culture here is to look shy trying to stop people below from seeing anything "up the alley".
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t_manifest (signed in using Yahoo)
Only problem with iPod is Apple ended up having to pay Creative $100 million for the license to use the Zen patent.


Ayaz Muhammed · Top Commenter · Priyadarshini Institute of Engineering and Technology
Hats Off To You Sir @Steve Jobs You Will Be Remembered Frever!


Sardar Mohkim Khan · Top Commenter · Associate Consultant at Creative Chaos
Sir Steve Jobs? has he been knighted???


Az Xedi · PM, Facilitator & Information Design Consultant at IFaqeer.com
it is a connotation of respect from the Indo-Pakistani part of the world..


Murugan Sundaram · University of Madras, Chennai
does he need a recognition like that?....


Eduardo Fenili · Top Commenter
You could also just say.....Patents and the lawsuits they created define Steve Jobs, If you wanted to go that way ;).


Jay Mcquire · Top Commenter · San Francisco, California
no.


Jared Elick · Top Commenter
yes.


Matt deCourcelle · UNC Charlotte
They're all design patents... something corporations do that have lots of money to spend. Utility patents are much harder to pass and much more noteworthy IMO.


Modele Trashimo · Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale, VA
I was reading that going, what pompus asshole other than willy wonka is gonna patent a stair case..jack ass, can he float away on his carpet on a patented river of gold-----ielocks pubic haris


Matt deCourcelle · UNC Charlotte
Hahahhahah...


Joey Kaibelf Yokubaitis · Top Commenter
So, when he came back to Apple when they were almost broke and patented the design of the original iMac, they had lots of money to spend? Okay then. I guess it's easy being an apologist for companies who were FAR richer at the time and still used piss poor design (Compaq).


Edward Holt · University of Hawaii at Manoa
If all you're worried about is price point I hear Walfart is going to have great prices on HP's.


Modele Trashimo · Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale, VA
I like flash, and I like storage cards, jsut admit they got you


Jeremy Thayer
ed, this because apple products arent sold at walmart (or walfart as you call it)? must be above the class of an apple user ... very interesting tho ... coulda swore ive seen every version of the ipod known to man and even the ipad and iphone as well ... and i think they were next to the HP stuff ... just sayin :/


William McNeill
I think the glass staircase is an example of patents run amok. I mean, really? No one can make a glass staircase that looks like that without paying Apple?


Devin Coldewey · Top Commenter
this is actually a reasonable application of a patent. It's a specific shape and method of supporting the stairs using glass and studs in a distinctive pattern. It's an "ornamental design" patent, to prevent manufacturers from simply copy-pasting the design. You can easily depart from this design in superficial ways (longer landing, wider stairs) and you'd be fine. Unlike many software and ui patents, which are a bit like patenting a glass stair of any size or shape, used in any situation.


Francisco Medina · Top Commenter · Bronx, New York
Thanks God Steve Jobs did not invent the air we breath !!!


Bill Cernansky · Top Commenter · ComedySportz
Or the silent E.


Jianing Zhang · Politecnico di Torino
Wonderful Mac Team, keep it up, Thank you for the gorgeous products you have ever made Steve!


Xun Wang · Karolinska Institute
I own a first-gen iPod! The first a few iPods ever sold in China!


Donna Bevelander
I'm always amazed at the vitriol against Apple. If you like your PC, fine, nobody is going out of their way to diss your choice. Why the urge to diss mine?


Jody Clowney · St. Francis School of Nursing
this has always puzzled me too Donna. we have loved our 10 apple computers and our gazillion ipods, but to each his own.


Bron Davies
Because you've been fooled - and I feel sorry for you.


Stephen Partridge · Major Account Manager at Polycom London EBC
Thanks for your concern Bron, I feel loved


Akshay Inamdar · Works at Pireates Of Silicone valley :D
Steve defined the alphabet 'i' more than english itself...


Ezrie Yellin
I am asking because I don't know, but are patents usually granted to an individual doing work for hire for a corporation? Can corporations not be named as patent holders?


Brian Singer · IT Support Manager at The Tax Credit Company
My friends father has a patent on SDDS which he helped create while working for Sony. RIP Rick Weisman


Jagan Ganti · Co-Founder at Qshark Technologies
Hey, isn't the "you're holding the phone the wrong way." iconic?
I hear it is patented. Or does Apple has it and not on the name of Steve?


Krishnamurthy Jr Srinivasan · Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Steve Hats Off.....Steve you made the "APPLE" Perfect......

"STAY HUNGRY. STAY FOOLISH".......


Ismathullah Aman · Software Engineer at Foradian
The patents of the Icon.


Jason Brian Chapa · E.W. Scripps
I've been to a few Apple stores here in Texas and none are two-story or have a staircase.


Modele Trashimo · Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale, VA
glass staircases make for great shattered dreams after a great earth quake.


Lance Lyon · Telstra
Steve who? Oh yeah, that guy who stole every idea that Apple uses from other companies - let's start with Xerox.


Sanket Mehta · Mumbai, Maharashtra
iconic


Andy Powell · Top Commenter
I know we can never really be sure, but how many of the patents listed actually had Steve Jobs as an inventor rather than him just getting his name on them because of who he is. Do all apple patents automatically get his name on?

Serious question.


Joey Kaibelf Yokubaitis · Top Commenter
As per the article: "He has 313 patents to his name, which range from the Apple III to the iPod’s acrylic packaging." Apple has tens of thousands of patents.


Sean Conrad · Sr. Product Manager at Symantec
As I understand it: Generally anyone who contributes in any material way to the solution contained within a patent should (or at least can) be included in its submission. Generally the identifier of the problem the solution solves would not be included.

Example 1: "it would be cool if you could go up and down a GLASS stair case! WHAO!" = probably not included in patent.

Example 2: "i bet it would work better if you arranged the studs like this instead of like that" = probably would be included in patent, assuming the new arrangement were the end result or a stepping stone to the end results.

Ultimately I'm guessing Jobs belonged on and earned the vast majority of the patents that hold his name. Whatever you think of Apple, or its customers, the man is a visionary genius - at least insofar as business is concerned, and at most insofar as technology itself.


Paul Miranda · Top Commenter
Patents can be invalidated if a person credited on it didn't participate (especially on patents credited to more than just one person). So I don't think he would dare and risk putting his name on patents just for the sake of it..


Maulik Koradia · Works at Self Employed (Business)
the world sees him and his work.


Sera Lee · Frankfurt, Germany
What an artist he is!!! We will miss him soooo much..