Patterico's Pontifications

8/24/2011

Steve Jobs Out at Apple

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 8:18 pm



Can we get Flash video on the iPhone now?

15 Responses to “Steve Jobs Out at Apple”

  1. He going to devote his time to campaigning for Rick Perry, right?

    daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 8/24/2011 @ 8:27 pm

  2. New app: iQuit.

    Actually, my smart brother came up with that, along with about 47 million other people.

    Seriously, he is a really smart guy and I hope he will be OK.

    Ag80 (9a213d) — 8/24/2011 @ 8:39 pm

  3. I admire the hell out of that guy. I am not a fan of Apple’s stuff, but we really could use more innovators in our society. Real innovators of real things rather than just content for those things.

    I hope Apple keeps it up.

    Dustin (b7410e) — 8/24/2011 @ 8:42 pm

  4. Jobs, I mean. My brother is another story.

    Ag80 (9a213d) — 8/24/2011 @ 8:43 pm

  5. Doesn’t he have pancreatic cancer? I thought I read that he would keep working until he was no longer able to perform his job. This is a sad thing.

    JD (318f81) — 8/24/2011 @ 8:44 pm

  6. Since the ’60s, it’s more and more common for celebrities and even civic leaders to offer advice like this:

    At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.

    I’m sure this is true, but it’s also comforting to look back on a life that includes knowing you’ve worked hard in your job or profession. I admire Jobs for his innovations but I also admire him for his willingness to face his health challenges and keep working while sick. He didn’t have to work and a lot of people in his position probably wouldn’t have.

    DRJ (a83b8b) — 8/24/2011 @ 9:17 pm

  7. So sad.

    DohBiden (d54602) — 8/24/2011 @ 10:24 pm

  8. Steve Jobs is excellent at getting behind someone with creative genius and getting them the tools they need to succeed. He has no creative genius of his own, he’s just excellent at picking them out.

    That’s an important talent, no question. I just wish he wasn’t a liberal fascist at heart. Apple might be a much more powerful, much better company if it were so.

    As-is, they are making the same mistakes with the iPhone that they made with the Mac. You cannot retain a grip on anything like that. It’s like room temperature mercury. Just as they needed to open up the Mac (and yes, I am fully aware that he wasn’t in charge then) so, too, did/do they need to do it with the iPhone and its marketplace. They will kill themselves if they stay on this path, just as they almost did with the Mac.

    Smock Puppet, Facepalm Expert (c9dcd8) — 8/24/2011 @ 10:55 pm

  9. i am proud to say i tweeted this to frank j and he liked it enough to retweet it:

    “This is what we mean when we say that Obama has cost us Jobs.”

    (And no, i don’t actually blame obama for this–i don’t know for sure why jobs left–i just thought it was a funny thing to say.)

    Aaron Worthing (73a7ea) — 8/24/2011 @ 11:07 pm

  10. Comment by DRJ — 8/24/2011 @ 9:17 pm

    The rendition of that advice that I really like is the following: Nobody on their deathbed ever wishes that they had spent more time at the office.

    JVW (4d72aa) — 8/25/2011 @ 12:23 am

  11. unless they were w*rking on the cure for what killed them.

    just sayin’… 8)

    redc1c4 (fb8750) — 8/25/2011 @ 12:34 am

  12. > Can we get Flash video on the iPhone now?
    Not until it becomes H.264 compliant

    mysterian1729 (0f0e9f) — 8/25/2011 @ 7:49 am

  13. Blah Flash is awful. The sooner it is stamped out the better.

    sarahW (af7312) — 8/25/2011 @ 8:32 am

  14. The rendition of that advice that I really like is the following: Nobody on their deathbed ever wishes that they had spent more time at the office.

    Unless they were on the way home when they were killed…

    Scott Jacobs (d027b8) — 8/25/2011 @ 10:58 am

  15. Sad. Here is a picture of Steve Jobs. Supposedly from earlier today.

    http://www.tmz.com/2011/08/26/steve-jobs-apple-photo-resignation-ceo-sick

    elissa (4904b3) — 8/26/2011 @ 9:22 pm


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