The Chinese did it for him.god must be very anxious to have a look at iPhone5, that is the reason why he took Jobs away. Apple could have saved Jobs' life by unveiling iPhone5 instead of iPhone4S.
Incorrect : He did not prefer India as an Apple R&D location. However, he spent a lot of time in India as a neo hippie seeking enlightenment. He converted to Buddhism after spending time here. He went back and did a lot of acid and acknowledged that acid had a lot to do with his visionary ideas.steve jobs never liked India for some reason...it is like India was never on his world map....apple products are also priced very very high in India....
RIP anyways..
If Icon of IT were a popularity contest then I guess you are right. However Steve Jobs is far from that. He is a niche designer of consumer products thats all. None of his products were ever innovative. Here is the list.He was not only innovator of this century but a great motivator to the up and coming young generation. I am talking about the commencement address to Sanford University in which he talks about death. It is worth having in my collection.
Individuals who are critical of his policy to keep his OS not open system should respect him as a human being and reserve their comments for other thread. This thread is to pay our tribute and respect to Icon of the IT and electronic world.
Rest In Peace.
More than just iPretty, the products did/do have fantastic GUI's. AFAIK , stuff like hardware accelerated window drawing (on windows and linux) was inspired from OS XThere is only one thing to credit Jobs for and that is iPRETTY. Making stuff that is visually appealing to women and kids. Therefore making all the teenage alpha males want it too so they become 'cool'
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I agree, but these are far from innovative or groundbreaking to be crediting Jobs with the title of IT icon of the century sir. Apologies if I sounded harsh in the assessment. I have nothing but respect for Jobs and totally acknoledge that I am a patzer who does not have a whiff of his business or marketing acumen. Just that people credit him for all the wrong reasons.Agree with most of your points except this one
More than just iPretty, the products did/do have fantastic GUI's. AFAIK , stuff like hardware accelerated window drawing (on windows and linux) was inspired from OS X
Well, if he was alive today, I'd have agreed with you. Now that he is dead, let us be courteous and mourn him. This is an emotional moment, especially for Apple fans, so objectivity is neither useful nor appropriate at this moment.^^What Steve would have come up with is newer and more novel ways of screwing over his customers. Like forcing people to buy proprietary power cords for iPhones instead of standard usb power cables. Or like making self-servicing of Macbooks impossible. Or like coming up with every closed, greedy, "sell you the rope to hang me with" type of scheme. A crook disguised as an "innovator". Sure, he was definitely a master innovator at fooling layidiots into buying his stuff.
No RIP for this one.