STEVE JOBS DIED YOU GUYS OMG

[WarpedWiseMan]

He also pioneered the mouse, font typesets that made it possible for you homos to eventually use your gay, little smilies and allowed Microsoft to come into existence.

Go watch the Pirates of Silicon Valley. The movie takes artistic license but the basic story is pretty close to reality. And entertaining.

From genius came an empire.

And comparing Billy Mays to Steve Jobs...really? When Jobs spoke, the world listened. When Mays spoke, trailer parks changed the channel.

[dagrimreefah]

He also pioneered the mouse, font typesets that made it possible for you homos to eventually use your gay, little smilies and allowed Microsoft to come into existence.

Go watch the Pirates of Silicon Valley. The movie takes artistic license but the basic story is pretty close to reality. And entertaining.

From genius came an empire.

And comparing Billy Mays to Steve Jobs...really? When Jobs spoke, the world listened. When Mays spoke, trailer parks changed the channel.

I know he's dead and all, but ride his nuts harder. He had a good marketing gimmick, that's all it comes down to.

[Potjeh]

HP and IBM didn't do PCs, they did business/server components.

610.

The Apple II is basically the first computer device marketed towards personal/home use.

Yeah, I guess Commodore and Tandy never happened.

Jobs also championed the use of GUIs in computing (Xerox didn't bring to the masses) years before Microsoft Windows.

And he didn't bring it to the masses either. Home computers were a niche product till like mid 90s. Which was Windows 3.x age.

The main thing that made Jobs a "visionary" is that he was able to see and understand what people wanted/needed out of their computing devices and he was able to give it to them.

And I guess people really wanted tight corporate control over their computers.

The iPod/iTunes digital store basically revolutionized media consumption and completely changed the way the recording industry approached their sales.

iPod was an mp3 player like any else. iTunes was the most intrusive and needlessly resource intensive piece of software I ever had the misfortune to use. Well, second worst, I guess, since QuickTime takes that title by virtue of being nearly impossible to remove (I've had viruses which were easier to purge out of my registry).

Like already mentioned, he saw the potential in a small computer animation division of Lucasfilm and purchased them and personally provided them the tools to become what we now know as Pixar.

OK, I'll give you that.

He left Apple in the mid 80's and created a GUI operating system which become the basis for the current Macintosh OSX operating system, and after rejoining the company in 1996 when it was bleeding money (Microsoft was actually giving them money so they would stay afloat and could avoid monopoly issues), Jobs guided them to become literally the largest publicly traded company on the world market.

You're thinking of Exxon Mobil.

A really simple but also really telling example of just what kind of effect one man's vision can have on the course of something...

This is what the Android Moblie Operating System looked like shortly before the first iPhone


And this is what the Android Mobile Operating System looks like after the release of the iPhone

Point? I don't really see much of an improvement.

[Repercussionist]

Edit. Wrong forums.

[Tonkyhonk]

And he didn't bring it to the masses either. Home computers were a niche product till like mid 90s. Which was Windows 3.x age.

orz...

well, we have different situations since our writing use double-byte characters, and we have had this "word-processing machines" (instead of type-writers) for so long and foreign computers did not do much good there.

still, Windows OS really sucked before they started copycatting Mac GUI and its LnF.
(and i really hated MS-DOS with passion!)
Mac users didnt even have to type command lines at all. home computers we use now owe a lot to Mac.

oh and many people forget about how unique "trash can" was back then...
his "simple and beautiful" policy did change a lot of people's world. (Billy Mays didnt change mine at least.)

[Potjeh]

Again, Xerox.

[Tonkyhonk]

xerox failed and Jobs bought the right and made it into actual use, right?

[Potjeh]

Actual use is a highly subjective term.

[Tonkyhonk]

Actual use is a highly subjective term.

not as subjective as your statements on this thread

[Potjeh]

Such as?