Steve Jobs

[smc]

Originally Posted by ila

Jobs didn't change a damned thing. He never had an original idea in his life. Everything he produced was copied from a previous product.

Originally Posted by ila

... I did not say that Jobs was not innovative. All I said was that he didn’t have an original idea. Everything created by Apple was done by somebody else first.

I appreciate your clarification, my friend, but as your initial post quoted above indicates, you stated that he "didn't change a damned thing." That is an ?ber-narrow view of what innovation means. The list of Apple products produced under Jobs' leadership that changed the way in which the world views and uses technology is lengthy and impressive. Even people who don't like Apple products cannot deny the influence of things like making the USB a mass-used thing, broadening how GUI is used, etc., etc., etc. -- unless they simply want to pretend that some things just never happened.

[Enoch Root]

Ah the mighty USB. Greatest thing to happen to computers.

[ila]

Originally Posted by smc

I appreciate your clarification, my friend, but as your initial post quoted above indicates, you stated that he "didn't change a damned thing." That is an ?ber-narrow view of what innovation means. The list of Apple products produced under Jobs' leadership that changed the way in which the world views and uses technology is lengthy and impressive. Even people who don't like Apple products cannot deny the influence of things like making the USB a mass-used thing, broadening how GUI is used, etc., etc., etc. -- unless they simply want to pretend that some things just never happened.

Yes, my very first sentence was too harsh.

[bial]

I do not use any of his products but he was an inspiring man, a pure genius of our generation.