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These are the most interesting articles, tributes, thoughts and memories of Steve Jobs I found in the days after his passing. Collectively they are my attempt to understand my feelings about the death of such a great and flawed man, who also happened to be a minor idol to me.



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I am new to Pearltrees so I'm trying to figure eveything out. Apple Employees Created This Video for Steve Jobs’ 30th Birthday. This moving video was created by Apple employees for Steve Jobs’ 30th birthday on February 24, 1985. The five-minute movie contains a slew of images of Steve that we’ve never seen before — as a baby; as a toddler on his bike; with friends and colleagues — and is a fitting testament to the way in which Apple workers viewed their great leader. The video was created at a time when Apple’s biggest rival was IBM, and it contains a number of humorous scenes in which frustrated users are struggling with confusing user manuals and syntax errors on their IBM machines.

The clip was discovered by Harry McCracken of Technologizer, who was tipped off by some early Apple employees. McCracken says: “The tribute must have been deeply moving for Steve and his colleagues at the time it was made. The clip is littered with images of Steve as a child, fooling around with Ella Fitzgerald, and even dressing up with powdered hair to look like Franklin D. Via FortuneRelated. With Time Running Short, Steve Jobs Managed His Farewells. Steve Jobs: a personal remembrance. When I was a kid, I had a picture of the original Macintosh team on my bedroom wall. It showed a hundred or so Apple employees standing in front of an office building. Some people on the left were holding a cloth banner with the "Picasso" Macintosh logo on it. A man sitting on the ground on the right cradled a baby. Front and center, crouching with an original Macintosh computer perched on his knee was Steve Jobs, wearing jeans, a long-sleeve black shirt, and gray sneakers.

I was 9 years old at the time. That year, my grandfather had changed my life by purchasing a Macintosh 128K, and convincing my parents to do the same. My grandfather also had a subscription to Macworld magazine, including multiple copies of issue #1, two of which I took home with me. I pored over that magazine for years, long after the technical and product information it contained was useless. The Macintosh was the first thing in my life that I recognized as being wholly new. The implications bloomed in my mind. Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs: Making a dent in the universe | Computers | Mac Word. I was in the third hour of a three-hour meeting on the afternoon of October 5, 2011, and I was feeling a bit punchy. The day before was an all-out sprint to cover Apple’s press conference and its fallout, along with plenty of technical snafus. So I was tired, the room was warm, and my mind was drifting.

Fatigue and stuffiness led to an inappropriately Deep Thought. And so I was struck by the fact that all of us has a bond that is unstated, obvious, and yet incredibly relevant: We’re all alive right now. We’re the people who lived through the end of the 20th Century and the beginning of the 21st. Not just the people in the conference room, but every single one of us. I walked back upstairs after the meeting and almost immediately got the news that Steve Jobs was gone from that world. When I got back here in 1997, I was looking for more room, and I found an archive of old Macs and other stuff. I didn’t know Steve Jobs. Jobs’s greatest creation isn’t any Apple product. Will they succeed? SJ. Edison. Ford. Disney. Jobs. An era has ended, and we now sit to reflect on our good fortune for having lived in a time when a true giant walked the Earth. You can love or hate the man, his company, and his products. It’s not every day that the President of the United States writes a two-hundred word eulogy.

It was only the day before that we watched an Apple event launching new hardware and software products. And so more than ever, I find myself inspired. Ten years ago today, we still had not yet met the iPod. Steve did. The Book of Jobs: 5 Essential Principles Behind Apple's Success - Think Different. The five principles that have guided Steve Jobs and Apple. Steve Jobs' life reads like a book. Specifically A Regular Guy, written by his long-lost sister, novelist Mona Simpson.

A Regular Guy chronicles the brilliant business life and considerably less organized private life of Tom Owens, a genius biotech company founder and CEO. Not until they were grown did Simpson and Jobs learn of the other's existence; Jobs was adopted by a couple from California and Simpson was raised by their biological parents in Wisconsin and later Los Angeles. By the end of Simpson's book, it's clear that her fictional recreation of her brother is a normal guy but he's not really the regular guy of the title.

And that's the real life Jobs, too. Jobs was booted by Apple's board of directors in 1985 and came back just over a decade later in 1996. Read on to see how Jobs' principles have become Apple's. Editor's Note: This piece originally ran when Steve Jobs resigned from Apple in August. Steve Jobs and the Beautification of Capitalism - Jeffrey A. Tucker. "One might say that Steve Jobs democratized beauty and thereby earned for himself and his company a kind of Teflon coating from the green-eyed monster. " The day that Steve Jobs resigned from Apple, hosannas for his life's work and accomplishments erupted (and rightly) from every corner of the earth (or the blogosphere, in any case).

He was universally hailed as a genius. He was praised for changing and upgrading our lives in so many ways. He was treated as an innovator who dedicated himself to the well-being of society, and accomplished miracles none of us mere mortals could have imagined. He did more than dream; he acted and created one of the great companies on the planet, a company that has enabled us to live out our own dreams. It's all true. Still, there's something odd here. Why is Walmart derided by the literati while Steve Jobs is made exempt from the anticapitalist stoning sessions that pervade the world of political commentary? Does the theory sound implausible? What Everyone Is Too Polite to Say About Steve Jobs. [www.youtube.com] Just a note on this subject. Jobs obsessed on US manufacturing when the Macintosh and later the NeXT Computers were first announced. He did everything the company could do to make state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities in the US.

However the competition from the rest of the industry and demand for low-cost devices pushed the company to China where Apple Computer could compete with the rest of the industry. As for Foxconn, they do not exclusively produce for Apple Computer, those facilities produce products for the following companies: Acer, Amazon(Kindle), Asus, Intel, Cisco, HP, Dell, Nintendo, Nokia, Microsoft, MSI, Motorola(Google), Sony Ericsson and Vizo. Apple Computer increased pressure on their production line partners to improve their conditions and systematically weeded out the ones that failed to improve. For those of you who always complained that Apple Computer products cost too much, this was one of the solutions - ahh the invisible hand of the free market. John Backus: Apple After Steve Jobs: The Perfect Case Study for Entrepreneurs.

As a VC, I felt compelled to write my first blog for Huffington Post inspired by one of the greatest entrepreneurs of our time: Steve Jobs. He was a brilliant inventor. His creations left an indelible mark on the world. And he left some important lessons to entrepreneurs on how to win in business. While some weren't blown away with this week's debut of the latest iPhone, and Tim Cook has some big shoes to fill, Steve Jobs left him with a powerful and intricately designed global operation that will be tough to break.

A closer look at this shows entrepreneurs how to create a business that stands the test of time (and no, I'm not an investor in Apple -- I invest my money in early stage entrepreneurs.) Let me explain by using the iPad as one example. Apple did something that no other hardware manufacturer has come close to replicating. On top of this, Jobs created three ecosystem advantages, which are difficult or impossible for Samsung, Dell, HTC, RIM, HP or even Amazon to meet. Why? Steve Jobs: The Death Of The Most Important Man In Music. Sean Parker's Tribute To His Hero Steve Jobs. Last American Who Knew What The Fuck He Was Doing Dies.

CUPERTINO, CA—Steve Jobs, the visionary co-founder of Apple Computers and the only American in the country who had any clue what the fuck he was doing, died Wednesday at the age of 56. "We haven't just lost a great innovator, leader, and businessman, we've literally lost the only person in this country who actually had his shit together and knew what the hell was going on," a statement from President Barack Obama read in part, adding that Jobs will be remembered both for the life-changing products he created and for the fact that he was able to sit down, think clearly, and execute his ideas—attributes he shared with no other U.S. citizen. "This is a dark time for our country, because the reality is none of the 300 million or so Americans who remain can actually get anything done or make things happen. Those days are over. " Realigning the Stars | What I Couldn't Say… I got to know Steve Jobs during a period when success eluded him. When he’d left Apple, and founded NeXT Computer, Inc.

In 1989, a few friends and I started a software company, Lighthouse Design, that devoted itself to the NeXT platform. Whether any of us admitted it at the time, Lighthouse was built by a group of people for whom Steve Jobs was the gravitational center of the universe. At Carnegie Mellon University in 1984, we’d all drained our savings (in my case, my parents’) to buy the first Macintoshes available. Where Steve went, we, and a small legion of others – employees at NeXT, as well as software developers and a very patient Japanese investor – would follow. When Steve made his first call to my office, I figured it was my friend Ray, pulling a prank.

Not all the calls were pleasant. He was remarkably loyal and supportive. Principled people are often difficult. And every CEO I know aspires to so effectively captivate their audience -and their shareholders (and board). What Steve Meant Back Then. I promise I didn't write this in advance, waiting for the appropriate moment to unleash it from the vault of pre-conceived, pre-digested stories about the deceased the way one fills in the Free Space in the middle of "N" on the Bingo card.

When people would ask me, what will you write when Steve Jobs dies, I declined to answer because I didn't want to think about it. I sincerely believed if anyone could beat pancreatic cancer, it would be him. I hear the three words, "He gave us... " as a jump-starter, or what Steve Wozniak would call a "bootstrap," for sentences that precede a recitation of all the technology milestones presented to the world by Steve Jobs.

Right off the bat, those three words are wrong. Steve Jobs did not give us anything. To presume that he did is an insult to what the man genuinely believed, and to the ethics and goals he personally championed from the beginning of his career. Kids in garages Apple was an empowering company. Steve had a moustache, so I grew one too. A Great User Experience: The Web Legacy of Steve Jobs. Earlier today, the tech world was rocked by the sad news that Steve Jobs had died. I'd like to pay tribute to Steve Jobs, on behalf of ReadWriteWeb, for what he brought to the Web world. There will be hundreds of different tributes written by many tech publications - deservedly so, as Steve Jobs had a huge impact on many aspects of technology. In this post I want to highlight 3 main things that I'm grateful to Steve Jobs for: 1) re-defining mobile computing with the iPhone and iPad; 2) his design philosophy; 3) his leadership.

Steve Jobs strived for greatness in the products his company built, which resulted in a great user experience on the Web for millions of people. Boom! The Mobile Web Revolution Begins... Over the years, Steve Jobs had been at the helm of a number of revolutionary technology products, including the MacIntosh computer in 1984 and the iPod in 2001. At the time, Jobs described the strange new product as "three revolutionary new products" all rolled up into one device.

The Other Steve Jobs: Censorship, Control and Labor Rights. The death of Steve Jobs has rocked people the world over, affecting everyone from the most hardcore Apple fanboy to Barack Obama to all those gathered outside the new Apple store in Shanghai. While Steve Jobs will be remembered for revolutionizing personal computing, the music industry, consumer mobile products, film animation and even fonts, the other side of his legacy is one of hyper-control: Apple's proprietary software, the iPhone's closed-off ecology, App Store censorship and the company's labor law violations.

If there was ever a company that capitalized on American consumers languishing in late-stage capitalism, it was Apple. And they did it by inventing "cool" products that we didn't even know we needed - till we needed them. Apple's Highly Objectionable App Store Censorship When Jobs introduced the App Store in June 2008, porn was at the top of the not-allowed-here list of content.

Some apps containing nudity snuck into the App Store, and were later pulled. The Controversies. Steve Jobs and the sound of silence. Steve Jobs at D8 by Asa Mathat | All Things Digital Like many of my colleagues in Silicon Valley, I was having a fantastic day today. It is crisp in the shade, warm in the sun. The skies are a magical blue with puffy clouds floating like dreams. And when all seemed to be going well, an email in my inbox — without as much as the new message sound — arrived: Letter from Steve Jobs.

It was as if the inbox was observing the solemnnity of the occasion. The first thought that ran through my head was about Steve’s health, and I thought to myself that this cannot be good. It is incredibly hard for me to write right now. And while I wish for him to have more time with his family, I am also being very selfish. Steve Jobs, the maverick who has architected one of the greatest comebacks in the history of Silicon Valley, continues to prove that he is a modern-day Howard Hughes. I have watched him from afar. As a founder of a company, Steve’s biggest gift to me is not the MacBook or the iPhone.

How Steve Jobs made the world more beautiful | Technology. The sharp, bright screen of the iPad, the last marvel with which Steve Jobs dazzled the world, may be seductive, but few would argue that typing on its virtual screen is the most practical way to produce work. Yet I have been writing articles with it for months now. Why? I could give all kinds of practical reasons, but they would be lies. The truth is that I am captivated by the beauty of this piece of technology. My feelings about this particular Apple creation are, to be honest, quite bonkers. I have never felt this way about a piece of machinery before. "Machinery"? The exquisite luxury of the iPad grows out of a tradition of Apple design that has repeatedly reshaped modern culture.

The first Apple computer in our household was a Mac Classic, and at the time, its smooth whitish box with a big colourful Apple logo on the side seemed gloriously futuristic – and yet, not in the least bit techno. If you want to know how Apple remade the look of the future think of Gary Numan. The Tao of Steve. Steve Jobs changed. Remembering Steve Jobs | Apartment Therapy New York. Apple's hard new reality: Elvis has left the house | Apple. Steve Wozniak remembers Steve Jobs (video) Steve Jobs Was Always Kind To Me (Or, Regrets of An Asshole) The Steve Jobs I Knew - Walt Mossberg.

Steve Jobs: Pixar's John Lasseter, Ed Catmull Remember Former CEO. Two minutes with steve - sippey.com. Asymco graphs Apple's performance under Steve Jobs. Flashback to Apple’s 1980 IPO - Deal Journal. A Sociology of Steve Jobs - Kieran Healy. Steve Jobs of Apple Dies at 56. Steve Jobs in his own words | Apple. Steve Jobs narrates the first Think Different commercial “Here’s to the Crazy Ones”