RIP Steve Jobs !!!

Looks like Steve has sadly passed away. I guess this has been a long time coming but it's still pretty shocking !!!

Cheers

Cris

:-(

http://www.apple.com/stevejobs/

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So sad. He was a true visionary, and the biggest figure in his entire industry.

Steve Jobs was a great man. His legacy and his legend will last a long time.

A prticularly nice rememberance of Steve in the Metafilter obit thread.

I really wish that I'd been wrong about this day... The writing has been on the wall for a few years, but you just want to brush it aside, almost as fantasy.

Steve was beyond visionary and easily the most significant CEO of the past 100 years. Apple would not be here today at all without Steve having taken original iCEO position. The company will continue, but it will never be the same.

So i happened to be having dinner few blocks away from the Apple Store, 5th Ave., NY City, when I read about this. We decided to walk here at the Apple Store. People ae quietly leaving flowers, and journalists are everywhere. A touching moment. Indeed Steve Jobs was a remarkable man, and I am happy i came here. I am sending this from the plaza just outside the Apple Store

Very sad to read this news. I'm not what most would consider a true Apple guy, I only started using the platform this year. But that doesn't mean I haven't known the company or Jobs for the last 25 years or so. There are only a few men like him out there, so it's very sad to see him go. 56 is way too young anyway. The only other name I can think of that reaches his level of fame and ability is Bill Gates, but Gates never had the charisma Jobs had.

I really hope that Apple, as a company, will honor his legacy and continue down the set out path, proving they are not a "one-man company". It almost went down the drain once after they kicked Jobs out in a very ungrateful way, but then he came back to save the day, and the company. Sadly, this will never be the case now anymore.

I've taken this opportunity to read up on him and his life, and it was truly remarkable. For all those who have never seen it, I can really recommend his 2005 Stanford Commencement Speech.

RIP Steve!

From the 4S keynote

The Onion:

I'd seen that empty seat in the stream and that thought hadn't crossed my mind...

I got to talk to him once, during the 3G development. The phone team were all in the ID area for our weekly meeting with Jony. Steve appears and wants to know how everything is going; I was going over the board fit (ie, would all the components fit in the space allocated for the PCB) so I got to tell SJ that yes, it looked like everything would fit.

Kinda glad at that moment that things were going well. If he'd turned up during some of the earlier iPhone 4 meetings it might not have been such an easy answer

Definitely a big loss, but Apple is full of amazing people. It did help having one that (a) was always right and (b) that nobody would disagree with though!

That looks like a corporate tradition in the making!