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Steve Jobs has been called the Thomas Edison of our time, but that’s probably a stretch. Jobs didn’t invent computing or cell phones or digital music. He was more like BASF, which, in its TV commercials, says: “We don’t make the (fill in the blank), we make it better.” Under Jobs, Apple reinvented gadgets, made them really cool, then convinced us that we had to have them — a slick-looking personal computer without the usual bugs, a music library of a thousand songs that fit into a device the size of a credit card, cell phones that do just about anything but juggle and make animal balloons. Of course, we had to upgrade to the newest versions, over and over. He spoiled us so badly that, ridiculously, some asked, “Is this all you got?”
Steve Jobs showed America what was possible | NJ.com
Jobs humanized technology, made the magical common - Computerworld
by Dan Frakes , Macworld.com Oct 6, 2011 11:30 pm I used my first computer sometime during the late 1970s. It was an Apple II, and it amazed me. I was in elementary school, and it was at a friend’s house on a farm in the midwest. I point out the time and the location because in retrospect, I find it fascinating that my first exposure to computers, at the dawn of the PC era, wasn’t in a school or a business, and it wasn’t in the sort of setting most people would associate with groundbreaking technology.
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Apple Met With Palo Alto Police Days Before Steve Jobs’s Death - Businessweek
Oct. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc. security officials met with police in Palo Alto, California, this week to notify them that Steve Jobs was close to death, a spokeswoman with the police department said. Following the meeting, the police devised a plan to put patrols in the area around the former Apple chief executive officer’s Palo Alto home once they heard from the company that he had died, according to Sandra Brown, the spokeswoman. The Apple representatives told the police department there was “a possibility that it could happen this week,” Brown said in a phone interview. “It’s common sense for us to work together.
Jobs was in tight control of choices till his final days - PTI -
1 Jobs was in tight control of choices till his final days Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who had become too weak to climb even the stairs in his final days, was still in "tight control of his choices", choosing only to spend time with his family, saying final goodbyes to a handful of very close friends and advising Apple executives on the launch of the new iPhone. Jobs, who had fought pancreatic cancer for years, knew in February this year that his time was running short. In his final months, Jobs' concerns were for people who depended on him, "the people who worked for him at Apple and his four children and his wife," a report in the New York Times quoted his sister Mona Simpson as saying. He said goodbye to longtime colleagues venture capitalist John Doerr, Apple board member Bill Campbell and Disney chief executive Robert Iger.