Steve Jobs - is he a legend
By indigo_res •
RIP Steve Jobs
All says he was a legend, but I disagree with all respect to deceased man.
I really doubt any of his inventions were really helpful to Humanity or he did any thing to Humanity to be framed as a legend. iPhone & Mac meant nothing for a common man.
Steve was considered one of Silicon Valley's leading egomaniacs. Cofounder Dan'l Lewin was quoted in Fortune as saying, "The highs were unbelievable . . . but the lows were unimaginable. After resuming control of Apple in 1997, Jobs eliminated all corporate humanitarian programs. Courtesy: Wikipedia
It's a bit far fetched to say that dropping out of school will automatically lead you to be a Steve Jobs or a Bill Gates. While Jobs may have dropped out of Uni, he did continue to audit classes for two years AND he'd been attending lectures at Hewlett Packard since he was in junior high. And if it wasn't for buddies like Steve Wozniak who let him sleep on his floor and the support of his adoptive and biological parents (who were all well off and incredibly intelligent themselves) he wouldn't have been able to do what he did.Fact is, both Gates and Jobs were too smart and too creative at the time to stay in universities that didn't cater to their interests or provide the training neccessary for them to pursue careers in computer programming. They were both better off out of uni and working in the field, which they both did.Gates scored a 1590 out of a 1600 on his SATS for crying out loud, the man is hardly your average joe. And his parents were RICH as well. Making it without Uni or education requires a combination of intelligence, talent AND familial and social connections that most people don't possess.
iphone is becoming a common man's gadget dude..what is common man using nowadays??? nokia 1100 with torch light??...:P
Alexander the Great is also a legend.
Who said that you have to give to chairities to be a legend? I think being "legendary" has to do with how many people you've influenced and no one can argue that Apple and the whole "building a PC in my garage" story isn't influential. Apple and Jobs have influenced virtually every technology company on the face of the planet, I would say that's pretty damned legendary.
Yes, drsam. Stereotyping and framing. Unless you get out of the frame, you won't become great. You will be 'useful' for society, because it needs stereotyped people, but not great! NONE of the 'great' people I know could be framed in school and universities. ALL of them had to endure the animosities of the system!!
http://www.mid-day.com/news/2011/oct/061011-How-Steve-Jobs-changed-the-world.htm
For Jobs, how a product looked, felt and responded trumped raw technical specifications. While PC makers chased after faster processor speeds, Jobs pursued clever, minimalist design, noted Fortune magazine listing the ways he changed the world.
Apple's titanium-turned-aluminium notebooks have became bestsellers. The most recent MacBook Air models have been held up as examples of the ideal intersection of design, price and performance.
Launched in 2003, iTunes has become the largest online music retailer in the world, with over 200 million registered users who have downloaded 15 billion songs. The fall 2011 launch of a cloud-based iTunes service should only further cement that standing.
Much has happened since Apple II, a mass-produced 8-bit computer encased in plastic that became one of the most successful PCs of the 1980, revolutionised the way people work.
But despite the rise of Windows-based computers, Mac sales continue to climb. In fact, Mac sales for the September 2011 quarter are expected to come in between 4.4 million and 4.6 million, a new record.
In the "post-PC" era tablet-laptop hybrid iPad has sold nearly 14.7 million units in 2010, and just last quarter, sales exploded 183 percent, proving that many people want a sizable yet portable device they can take anywhere.
Apple operating systems were always intended to be simpler than the competition -- MS-DOS, Windows or Linux -- and that approach is readily apparent, whether it's Mac OS System 7 or Mac OSX, software largely derived from Jobs' work at NeXT.
Ultimately, Jobs' biggest contribution isn't just a smartphone, a tablet or an operating system, but Apple itself, a 12,000-strong organization that was once on the brink of irrelevance, Fortune said.
Since his return to the company in 1997, Jobs has rebuilt it into the most valuable technology company in the world, surpassing other heavyweights like Microsoft or HP. It may indeed be the greatest turnaround in business history, it said.
Education is important but having a degree doesn't mean a sure success it still depends on the individual's passion & drive. Today a person won't find a decent job unless he's got a degree & those who don't believe in that don't understand how the corporate world works. What if Jobs & Gates got their degree? I guess they would have been much much better...
I havent finished my degree in Electrical Engineering,who would have thought that i'll be here in Qatar. LOL. I have my goals and i never lose track on them no matter what is happening around me. I am determined enough to never let any obstacle hinder me from reaching what I want. Call me ambitious if you want. :p
http://www.hindustantimes.com/Stay-Hungry-Stay-Foolish-Steve-Jobs-speech-at-Stanford/Article1-754153.aspx
Here's the speech:)
Tinker - I havent read that.Lemme check it out..:)
That's why im a drop out.:p
neither did thomas eddison. ur saying might be right. but what influence in schools and universities? is it the framing, the stereotyping of students to one curriculum?
Some say Gates just stole his user friendly os (windows) from Jobs though I don't like the idea of Apple being "kept it to our self thing"... Jobs provide innovation & push technology to it's potential & that also includes work for a common man.
Interestingly neither Gates nor Jobs have finished their university degrees! They both are "drop-outs". As I always said: try to avoid the influence of schools and universities and you'll make it big!
Apple as a company yes, he was a visionary, but not for anyone else. Look at Microsoft as a company and Bill Gates as a person. Scores of people in need are benefited. Bill & Melinda foundation has changed life’s of millions of people. Steve represents the greedy and egoistic face of American Corporate. Yes my all due respect for a deceased human being.
Its true that he did remove some humanitarian programmes.. but he did it for the greater good... perhaps Corporate Social responsibility is in vogue now, but in those days, business was such that hard decisions had to be taken... Perform or perish, especially in the field of Technology...
Yes, he did things which many felt were not justified... but he did it to bring Apple to where it is now...
I am sure Apple is benefitting with things he sacrificed... Give this man his due, and I'm not saying this just coz he is dead...Read more: http://www.qatarliving.com/node/2160347#comment-1980254#ixzz1ZzCPISW8