Wozniak Tearfully Remembers His Friend Steve. President Obama on the Passing of Steve Jobs: "He changed the way each of us sees the world." Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs (1955-2011): Statement from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Larry Page - Google+ - I am very, very sad to hear the news about Steve. He was a… Sergey Brin - Google+ - From the earliest days of Google, whenever Larry and I… Steve Jobs and the actually usable computer - W3C Blog. At a sad time at which the world has just lost Steve Jobs, it is well to reflect on some of the things which he, his passion, and his creations have given us, as now the technical community should take many of these upon its collective shoulders. A big thing Steve Jobs did for the world was to insist that computers could be usable rather than totally infuriating! The NeXT was brilliant. The NeXT had (arguably too) many things introduced at once — removable optical storage, Objective C, DSP for sound and movies, Mach kernel, unix for a PC, display Postscript, InterfaceBuilder and so on.
Yes, they never got the price down and the optical disks proved unreliable. The NeXT box when I unwrapped it (in Sept 1990) had automatically set up for me as a naive user a unix mail account, which staggered the local unix gurus who normally had to help users of new unix boxen struggle with sendmail configuration files. Programming the WorldWideWeb client was remarkably easy on the NeXT. Tim cc-by-nc-nd. Jack : Thank you, Steve. Dickc : Once in a rare while, some... Apple Macintosh presentation 1984. Eric Schmidt on Steve Jobs. Everyone knows the transaction where the board sided with John Sculley and Steve left Apple (AAPL).
Steve sold all of his Apple stock, kept one share, and founded NeXT. Typical Steve maneuver. When I was still at Sun Microsystems, I visited him at NeXT—we did a bunch of deals with him. He was exactly the same way he was at Apple: strongly opinionated, knew what he was doing. He was so passionate about object-oriented programming. He had this extraordinary depth. I should tell you this story. At NeXT he built this platform—a powerful workstation platform for the kind of computing that I was doing, enterprise computing. When he went to Apple, he was basically down to 1 percent market share. What I remember thinking at the time is that you shouldn’t take a job unless you know how to win. I joined Apple’s board after the Apple Stores started. Steve and I were talking about children one time, and he said the problem with children is that they carry your heart with them.