Steve Jobs?

[Gary]

I never needed an Apple product, and I tend to limit my wants to things I really need to soothe my sould like bikes, sports cars, etc., so I never bought an Apple product. Did I really miss something? I wonder how many people who bought Apple products really needed them.

And PIXAR; for my money the old cartoons were better.

I recall using an Apple computer for about 30 minutes one day back in about 1987; the screen was tiny, the display was black and white (more like light gray and lighter gray) with very little contrast. I was very happy to get back to my IBM PC later that day.

I would tend to pay more homage to someone who invented and produced products more useful to everyone - toilet paper, air conditioning, mechanical fabric looms, the sewing machine, the microwave oven, etc.

Maybe its that I just don't like multi-billionaires; there are a bunch of folks in New York City right now that probably share this dislike.

Jobs had zero impact on me and I won't miss him at all.

 

[hemibee]

He may have had more influence on you than you think he did.


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[Ksquared]

Never cared for Apple computers. Even owned a Mac for a couple of days - but found that it couldn't do the work-related things I need a computer to do without a lot of 3rd party software, despite the salesman telling me it would. Back it went and I'm back on a PC.

Have no use for an iPhone. My Samsung Epic 4G has a bigger screen, is faster, has more stable call connection, has a slide-out keyboard, which I find very useful, has excellent voice recognition, which I use for e-mails and texts on a regular basis and, most important of all, has REPLACEABLE BATTERIES. I own three batteries and I've never run out of battery power at an important time. They pack in a very small space and make life simple. I love this phone - iPhone will never tempt me from my Epic.

However, I do have a iPod Touch 2G and I love it - can't inagine a trip - business or pleasure without it. iPod revolutionized personal music consumption. Walkman was first - but iPod removed the need for the physical media - no more tapes or CD's. An evolutionary step which fomented a revolution in personal music consumption. I see that Microsoft just killed off the Zune line - but iPod is still going strong.

I am looking to buy a tablet - but it won't be an iPad - as it has too many functional limitations and has made too many concessions to style at the expense of user convenience.

However, none of this casts the slightest doubt on Jobs' status as a transforming figure of the digital revolution and, it is possible to argue - THE transforming figure of the digital revolution.

RIP Steve. Perhaps you'll get up close and personal with that "cloud" that everyone's talking about these days.

iCloud your next project????

 

[CarlS]

I tried a Mac because the school system used them and they had a GIS program that I used. The Mac worked well; but it it was not as versatile and I could not easily transfer my work from the office to to the Mac. Therefore I went back to a PC. However, the competition between Apple and Microsoft has been good for all of us who use computers.

 

[Dilligaf]

IMHO Mac is vastly superior, I've had 5 mac and not one has ever crash, frozen or gone to a blue screen error message. Windows blows.