I'm sorry he's died, of course, but until you posted this I didn't know and had never heard of someone named 'Steve Jobs' before. (I had no idea 'Jobs' could be someone's surname.)
I hated iPod so I guess this guy's impact on my life has been a bit less. (I still will never own an iPhone, though I'm glad you like yours.) It's Zen for me, all the way, because I can operate it with windows and don't have to mess around with iTunes (or ANY specific program), which I flat-out despise. That's my reason for hating ipod...it forced you to use iTunes to use *it*, and my teeth grind if I even HEAR 'iTunes'.
It's sad that he died so young, though. You wonder what he'd have come up with next. (I don't think I own a single one of his creations, though, probably because I strongly dislike Apple products.) Anyway now I have to go look up what happened to him because that's too young to have just worn out.
Actually, if you use a mouse, you're using a Steve Jobs innovation. :) It was his idea, as was the interface we all use every day that makes computer graphics easy to view. Until Steve Jobs and the Macintosh, all computers were huge suitcase-sized monsters with nothing but black screens and white text. No fonts, no pictures...no graphics. Bill Gates (Mr Microsoft) used to work with Jobs and together they basically created the internet and computer interface as we know it.
Really, if you use any modern computer at all, you're using something Steve Jobs innovated. He was sort of the Alexander Graham Bell of home computer technology. :)
Yeah, I know...I HAD a computer when they ran that way. I kind of liked DOS, to be honest. Typing commands was fun. My first computer was a Tandy 1000 when I was 8. I wish the DOS options still existed in a way that worked (Command Prompt doesn't do it.) because then I could play my old oooold games again. I really hate that about technology...it changes too fast and makes everything before it obsolete. Heck they're PLANNING many items to become obsolete in a few years.
The article I read had him proudly admitting that Apple didn't invent...it stole existing ideas and RE-invented. So it seems to me like that his gift was taking complicated things making things more user-friendly and appealing to the general mass. Which is strange since everyone says that Apple computers are more complicated to learn to use. I always hear that they're ideal for graphic designers but maybe not for most other people.
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I hated iPod so I guess this guy's impact on my life has been a bit less. (I still will never own an iPhone, though I'm glad you like yours.) It's Zen for me, all the way, because I can operate it with windows and don't have to mess around with iTunes (or ANY specific program), which I flat-out despise. That's my reason for hating ipod...it forced you to use iTunes to use *it*, and my teeth grind if I even HEAR 'iTunes'.
It's sad that he died so young, though. You wonder what he'd have come up with next. (I don't think I own a single one of his creations, though, probably because I strongly dislike Apple products.) Anyway now I have to go look up what happened to him because that's too young to have just worn out.
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Really, if you use any modern computer at all, you're using something Steve Jobs innovated. He was sort of the Alexander Graham Bell of home computer technology. :)
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The article I read had him proudly admitting that Apple didn't invent...it stole existing ideas and RE-invented. So it seems to me like that his gift was taking complicated things making things more user-friendly and appealing to the general mass. Which is strange since everyone says that Apple computers are more complicated to learn to use. I always hear that they're ideal for graphic designers but maybe not for most other people.
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