As one of America's greatest innovators, Steve Jobs naturally found his way into the pages of Popular Science with great regularity. From the DIY spirit of Apple's early days, to his exile and evolution at Next and Pixar, all the way into the modern iEra, we've covered Steve and his doings for more than three decades.
Here, we've collected a few standout moments in our coverage of Jobs.
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Midoman - don't be a hater. Steve Jobs was the Henry Ford of our time.
I don't hate, I just don't appreciate anything apple.
He was a great business-man..but nothing else and I am anti-apple to the bone
Steve Jobs , the man who got fired from his company , then rehired because he pitched a product lineup that was DIRECTLY copying Braun products from the 1960's and then shutdown ALL apple charities, NEVER reopened them , and NEVER donated ANY of his money to ANY charity... he just POCKETED more and more money VIA his growing salary.
Steve jobs looks at a Braun T3 Pocket Radio .. sure that'll do, let's make our iPod exactly like THAT! .. btw, if we close down the charities we can pay ourselves MORE MONEY! How do we attract more attention to our productline that is inferior to samsung, iriver and creative? hmmmm.... how about the social issues.. YES, lets profit from social issue while we close down and never ever reopen our charities... also lets bash on windows constantly by saying untrue things and scaring people about virus's while we deny that mac's are giant security risks and are getting attacked by spyware constently for the last 6 months, causing mastercard, amex and visa threaten to release statements to the press about a new policy regarding consumer identity theft/purchase insurance for ONLY MAC users.. basicly... if apple waited another day, any MAC user screwed over by credit card theft would no longer be covered. suddenly apple jumped right up and fixed it in 4hrs.
steve jobs... the thief , the con man, the lying narcissist who valued himself higher than you or anyone else alive.. he was better than you in his eyes, and the gullibe hipster-doofus' bought into it.
"yes the out of date, over priced IS what all the professionals photoshoppers are using.. sorry no it wont do 10 bit color... only amatures use something that has professional quality color reproduction.. we use the lesser crap and charge more.. it's what the word PRO allows us to do"
cheers, eh
ptv83..ur the man bro..thanks i didnt know about that Braun T3 pocket radio. Ive always stayed away from crapple products. Their company is one big scam..always something in the small print...like a dishonest mechanic. U want that iPad on ur tv..well well well gotta get apple TV pfhaha
Pathetic..
PC
Android
Adobe Flash
Forever
ohh and Google ..how could I forget.. Wheres that dude with the Google for president .gif when you need him!
and WTF! iphone 4s ..not even 4Gs WTF! r they retarded...or is it their consumer base!
ok ok calm down
The point of Apple was making electronics more user friendly, sleek, modern looking and helpful. They have been and are electronic innovators and leaders. Yes once their product comes out, others compete and maybe develop to be better. But that is just the positive effects of competition. But Apple continues to be an electronic user friendly, innovator and leader! Steve Jobs was a great marketing leader towards this goal!
Gees, I never realized how ugly jealousy could be..
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Claude
I agree chbaines. This ptv83 fellow has been on a tangent of steve jobs hate. They must just be jealous or something. Yeah, the Braun T3 is what the ipod came from, riigghht. Because its a box with a wheel like dial? I guess my see and say toddler toy was a precursor to siri because it can, with astounding accuracy, interpret what I want when I land on the cow face. I want to hear MOOOOO!!
He also talks about products that competed with the ipod like they were something special. Well they weren't. I had plenty if irivers, gigabeats, and other "Feaux"-pods. All of them worked, as in functioned, just not very well. They always had software/hardware problems on the device and pc they connected to. But the ipod was the best. It didn't outsell because of social issues? (Mr. ptv83, could you please cite your sources). The market (the people buying them) declared the ipod victorious. I currently have a zune model 2. Which i think is the only product line that was good enough to compete with the ipod. I'm am also confident the zune wouldn't be what it is today without the ipod. So thank you apple, on behalf of a microsoft product.
ALSO: What is with the charities tangent? Most businesses just do it to lower taxation anyways. Apples makes computer systems affordable to tons of educational institutions that otherwise could not afford them. They are a business. Are you some mighty philanthropist divvying out your millions? If so, how about donating some money to your local Trolls Anonymous group so they could provide you with some help.
i dont hate apple but i really think the popularity got to them and if they were so user friendly they wouldn't have any staff to help people with their product and who puts the on button in the back