I just saw a commercial for the movie about Steve Jobs.. I'm dumbfounded by the popularity for this guy.. Did he do anything else besides making an iPhone?
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I believe he could spell and form a sentence.
Eh. Food was ready.. Finished the post after eating.. Didn't proof read.. And I did it on my iPad.. You'd think Jobs would have thought of such a thing happening and found a way to prevent that from happening..
In all seriousness. he is one of a handful of revolutionaries that developed the computer as we know it today.
The ipod, Iphone, and Ipad, I would also say the Droid platform, all came about because of the ground work he laid.
The ipod, Iphone, and Ipad, I would also say the Droid platform, all came about because of the ground work he laid.
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Decades before that, Jobs and Wozniak revolutionized personal computing. Apple set the computing world on it's ear.
Jobs wasn't Jesus Gee, but the dude was a crucial cog in the history of computing.
None of his ideas were original, but he always saw the bigger picture. Jobs had a vision for the iPhone and iPad in the mid-80s. He was never alone in his vision, but he definitely was the leading pioneer in what we've come to understand as consumer electronics. He never saw the computer as a business machine. He always saw the broader purpose. Without him, the PC would still be non-GUI and the killer app would still be the database. The web would probably look like the old BBS system.
Before the iPhone and iPad, there was the Newton. If you've never seen one, you should check it out. It was revolutionary and probably what inspired countless first-gen hand-held devices.
You have to respect that kind of vision. It's ground breaking.
Before the iPhone and iPad, there was the Newton. If you've never seen one, you should check it out. It was revolutionary and probably what inspired countless first-gen hand-held devices.
You have to respect that kind of vision. It's ground breaking.
I don't really have any interest in seeing this movie after seeing the trailer. I did like the Pirates of Silicon Valley that came out years ago though.
JOBS
Release Date: August 16, 2013
Studio: Open Road Films
Director: Joshua Michael Stern
Screenwriter: Matthew Whitely
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for some drug content and brief strong language)
Website: TheJobsmovie.com | Facebook | Twitter
Starring: Ashton Kutcher, Dermot Mulroney, Josh Gad, Lukas Haas, J.K. Simmons, Matthew Modine
Plot Summary: It only takes one person to start a revolution.
The extraordinary story of Steve Jobs, the original innovator and ground-breaking entrepreneur who let nothing stand in the way of greatness.
The film tells the epic and turbulent story of Jobs as he blazed a trail that changed technology -- and the world -- forever.
Release Date: August 16, 2013
Studio: Open Road Films
Director: Joshua Michael Stern
Screenwriter: Matthew Whitely
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for some drug content and brief strong language)
Website: TheJobsmovie.com | Facebook | Twitter
Starring: Ashton Kutcher, Dermot Mulroney, Josh Gad, Lukas Haas, J.K. Simmons, Matthew Modine
Plot Summary: It only takes one person to start a revolution.
The extraordinary story of Steve Jobs, the original innovator and ground-breaking entrepreneur who let nothing stand in the way of greatness.
The film tells the epic and turbulent story of Jobs as he blazed a trail that changed technology -- and the world -- forever.
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Hmm. Makes me want to see it.
Yeah, I felt like that and several books out on the subject (Fire in the Valley, Accidental Empires and Return to the Little Kingdom), there wasn't anything new that couldbe said.
There's no way they could do this movie without highlighting the fact that Jobs was often a person of unspeakable anger. Fascinating man, but he had many things to apologize for before dying. I'm certain he never got around to all of them.
Yep, I'm glad to hear they took the unsweetened warts-and-all approach. I understand he could be a real jerk.
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Want to see it but it has gotten really negative reviews so far. But you can't always go by reviews!
Ugh. You're right. Just looked at Metacritic. A 41 metascore.
Sorry, can't watch Ashton Kutcher.
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Steve Jobs is a salesman.
Its an insult to call him a revolutionary.
Dennis Ritchie is a revolutionary, and when he dies nobody cared. Guess he didn't wear the right turtle neck.
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/De...-programming-language-Ken-Thompson,13696.html
Cause no one does any of these phones, computers, etc., etc. without what this man brought to the table.
He actually DID what, Jobs was selling.
One person actually created something, the other told us about it.
Yet, we will make a movie about the salesman.
That is fine and dandy but just realize what you are all watching.
Its an insult to call him a revolutionary.
Dennis Ritchie is a revolutionary, and when he dies nobody cared. Guess he didn't wear the right turtle neck.
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/De...-programming-language-Ken-Thompson,13696.html
Cause no one does any of these phones, computers, etc., etc. without what this man brought to the table.
He actually DID what, Jobs was selling.
One person actually created something, the other told us about it.
Yet, we will make a movie about the salesman.
That is fine and dandy but just realize what you are all watching.
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Yep and one of the things Jobs was great at selling was his role in the company etc.
In a sense the iPod saved Apple, they were dead on the tree. Jobs had a team run by a consultant named Tony Fadell(I worked with Tony at General Magic) and he was smart enough to let Tony finish there what he'd started at Real Networks and they pulled the plug on. After it came out Apple went out of their way to keep quiet that Fadell was the guy that invented it. When that leaked out they then had all this yes, but Jobs was the one who came up with the idea of the iTunes format where people would pay to legally get music. Even that's not true, multiple people from Apple have confirmed that was Fadell's idea too, basically Jobs made some recommendations on look and feel of the iPod but Fadell was the brains behind it.
Fadell was also the brains behind the early iPhones, and if you look there's a good reason why, Fadell had already helped create an iPhone at General Magic in the late 90's, it was called a personal communicator, and it did most of what the iPhone does(no camera and oddly not really a phone) but it was way too expensive and before its time and never caught on. You can find old demos of it on youtube were most of the comments are my god Apple is brilliant they invented a phone that General Magic made in 1996.
But Jobs was able to market the iPod, Fadell again had been trying to do so for awhile and couldn't. And jobs was able to market the iPhone, and General Magic couldn't. And that was his brilliance.
But he wasn't technical at all. A guy I worked with at Magic told us a story of Jobs at Next wanting to have his office door be like the one on Star Trek that just magically opened and closed when you walked near it. When they told him those weren't real, and it was actually someone opening and closing the door from the other side, off camera, with a canned "whoosh" noise, he was surprised, he thought he could get one in his office.
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"Suffice it to say, I wasn't terribly fond of either film (Butler or Jobs), but then I'm not really the audience for it. These were produced primarily for Academy Awards voters (and also for Oprah's acolytes and the true diehards among the Apple Faithful, respectively); and it'll be a few months yet before we find out what they thought. I myself will be pushing for Pirates of Silicon Valley to be retroactively awarded the Oscar for Best Thing To Do Instead of Going To See Jobs."
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Told this story here before we had a high level exec in charge of engineering at one company who destroyed our company by driving off engineers. At one point in a meeting we had this British Consultant, the big shot guy announced some deal he was working on and what the customer wanted and then asked if the delivery schedule could be accelerated. And the British Consultant said "well if you'll just suspend the laws of physics I think we can hit your timeframe. If we're talking what can actually be done, no we can't hit that schedule because we can't actually do what you promised them."
He told us the whole story one day over pizza after the high level guy finally got fired, hilarious story.
Yep. That and form factor.
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Yep apparently was the one that came up with the "wheel" on the early iPods.
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