Steve Jobs we will miss you

It is a free country - however not a respectful one.

Feel how you like about a person but show a little class at their time of death. Ever notice how no one seems to say at a wake "What an asshole!" but offers some positive aspect of even the most flawed character.

That does not seem to apply in the anonimity of a discussion board. I blame internet for the loss of decorum among us.

I dont buy the whole mythic portrait painted of Jobs. Yes in the start of his career he did amazing things but folks act like he farted earthchanging ideas and the thousands of others were just along for the ride. I seriously doubt that he was the sole reason for even the idea of the Pad, the Pod, Iphone, the music store and many aspects of those and countless other aspects of his company. He started something and was careful to control his image but the question for me is how much of his legend was media hype? Yes he was known as a prick and a micromanager but he at minimum was smart enough to hire smarter folks to carry his company to amazing heights.

>>10-07-11: Chadnliz
I dont buy the whole mythic portrait painted of Jobs<<

That's why he's a legend and you're Chad.

I am still alive so that precludes me from being insulted by that, and unlike Steve I still have time to blow your mind ;)

The genius of Steve Jobs was that he saw uses in technology that no one else saw. Steve Wozniak made the first Apple computer, but it was Jobs who envisioned its potential as a personal computer. Xerox created the mouse and the GUI, but it wasn't until Jobs licensed them that they revolutionized how people interface with computers. Pixar was a small special effects company before Jobs purchased it for $10 millions and under his direction produced the first fully digital animated movie. Disney ended up purchasing Pixar for about $10 billion. (I guess that puts a price tag on prickish micro-managing). And finally he took a computer hardware manufacturer/software company and turned it into the world's largest music distributor. I would imagine that someone with a list of these accomplishments must be pretty smart in his own right.