Apple picker Steve Jobs made it his goal to bring people and technology together in a non-violent way. It was not for nothing that he ended his presentations with photographs depicting the intersection of technology and liberal arts. Many companies were able to create a phone, but only Apple under the leadership of Steve Jobs was able to come up with a smartphone for the common user. The tablet was introduced by Bill Gates many years before the iPad, but it was Jobs' vision that was able to bring a successful concept to market. Steve Jobs believed that technology should serve people, not people serve technology. It was this motto that became the company's message. Apple is the image of Jobs' vision, goals, refined taste and attention to detail.
Today it is exactly two years since Steve Jobs left us forever, and Jablíčkář presents a selection of articles that are worth reading (again) as a reminder of his memory. They are about Jobs, about those who remember him, about major milestones in his career.
We wrote the saddest news in October 2011. Steve Jobs succumbs to a long illness and dies. A few weeks before that, he still has time to hand over the apple scepter to Tim Cook.
Steve Jobs is finally stepping down as CEO
However, he is not leaving Apple completely. Although, according to him, he is unable to fulfill the daily agenda that is expected of him as a chief executive, he would like to remain the chairman of Apple's board of directors and continue to serve the company with his unique perspective, creativity and inspiration. As his successor, he recommended the proven Tim Cook, who has de facto led Apple for half a year.
On October 5, 10, the father of Apple, Steve Jobs, died
Apple lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world lost an amazing person. Those of us who were fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and inspiring mentor. Steve left behind a company that only he could have built, and his spirit will forever be a cornerstone of Apple.
Apple with Jobs, Apple without Jobs
What is certain is that an era in the computer industry has ended. An era of founding fathers, inventors and innovators who created new technological industries. Further direction and development at Apple is difficult to predict. In the short term, there will be no major changes. Let's hope that at least a large part of the creative and innovative spirit can be preserved.
Steve Jobs was a very charismatic speaker who charmed crowds. His keynotes have become legendary, as have the products he brought to life. What is the story behind them?
The story of the phone that changed the mobile world
The entire project that carried the designation Purple 2, was kept in the utmost secrecy, Steve Jobs even separated individual teams into different branches of Apple. Hardware engineers worked with a fake operating system, while software engineers only had a circuit board embedded in a wooden box. Before Jobs announced the iPhone at Macworld in 2007, only about 30 top executives involved in the project had seen the finished product.
Cingular's COO recalls how the first iPhone was created and how it changed AT&T
Ralph de la Vega was the only one at Cingular who knew roughly what the new iPhone would look like and had to sign a nondisclosure agreement that prohibited him from revealing anything to other employees of the company, even the board of directors had no idea what the iPhone would actually be and they only saw it after signing a contract with Apple.
MacWorld 1999: When Steve Jobs demonstrated Wi-Fi to the audience using a hoop
Apple was thus responsible for popularizing a technology that was still unknown to many people in a way that only Steve Jobs could do. Today, Wi-Fi is an absolute standard for us, in 1999 it was a technology fad that freed users from the need to use a cable to connect to the Internet. Such was MacWorld 1999, one of the most important keynotes for Apple in the company's history.
Steve Jobs did not appear in public much, outside of the traditional presentations of new products. However, he had many friends in his life who spent more than one interesting moment with him...
Steve Jobs, my neighbor
I met him for the second time at our children's class meetings. He sat and listened to a teacher explain the importance of education (wait, isn't he one of those high-tech gods who didn't even finish college?) while the rest of us sat around pretending that Steve Jobs' presence was completely normal.
Steven Wolfram and memories of working with Steve Jobs
He told me that he had only met her a few days ago and was quite nervous about the meeting. The great Steve Jobs - a self-confident entrepreneur and technologist - went all soft and asked me for some advice about the date, not that I'm some famous adviser in the field. As it turned out, the date apparently went well, and within 18 months the woman became his wife, who remained with him until his death.
Mona Simpson talks about her brother Steve Jobs
Steve constantly talked about love, which was a core value for him. She was essential to him. He was interested and concerned about the love lives of his co-workers. As soon as he came across a man he thought I might like, he would immediately ask: "You're single? Do you want to go to dinner with my sister?'
Walt Mossberg also remembers Steve Jobs
The calls were increasing. It was becoming a marathon. The conversations lasted maybe an hour and a half, we talked about everything, including private things, and they showed me how big a scope this person has. One moment he was talking about an idea to revolutionize the digital world, the next he was talking about why Apple's current products are ugly or why this icon is so embarrassing.
Steve Jobs was a great visionary and a very capable negotiator. More than one seasoned manager's knees buckled under the pressure of Jobs. The co-founder of Apple was also tough on his colleagues and subordinates.
How did Steve Jobs lead his people?
In one of the last moments I saw Steve, I asked him why he was so rude to his employees. Jobs replied, “Look at the results. All the people I work with are intelligent. Each of them can reach the highest positions in any other company. If my people felt bullied, they would surely leave. But they don't go away.'
Steve Jobs already predicted the iPad in 1983. It finally came out 27 years later
Jobs was a bit wrong with his estimate of when Apple would introduce such a device, by about 27 years, but it's even more fascinating when we imagine that Jobs had the breakthrough device that the iPad undoubtedly is in his head for such a long time.
Steve Jobs thought twenty years ago that he would be forgotten in time
By the time I'm fifty, everything I've done so far will be obsolete... This is not an area where you lay the foundations for the next 200 years. This is not an area where someone paints something and others will look at his work for centuries, or build a church that people will look up to for centuries.
How Steve Jobs made a profit-sharing deal with AT&T
Jobs was said to be different from other CEOs who tasked Aggarwal with implementing a strategy. “Jobs met with the CEO of each operator. I was surprised by his directness and effort to leave his signature on everything the company did. He was deeply interested in details and took care of everything. He made it," recalls Aggarwal, who was also impressed by the way Jobs was willing to take risks to make his vision a reality.
Steve Jobs didn't always have a bed of roses. For example, he had to deal with problems when one of the Apple employees lost a new, as yet unreleased iPhone in a bar.
About the editor, regrets and memories of Steve Jobs
I would probably return the phone without asking for confirmation though. I would also write the article about the engineer who lost it with more compassion and not name him. Steve stated that we had fun with the phone and wrote the first article about it, but also that we were greedy. And he was right, because we really were. It was a painful victory, we were short-sighted. Sometimes I wish we never found that phone. This is probably the only way to get around without problems. But that's life. Sometimes there is no easy way out.
Steve Wozniak and Nolan Bushnell on Jobs and the beginnings of Silicon Valley and Apple
Regarding this story, Wozniak mentioned that during their work together for Atari, Jobs always tried to avoid soldering and preferred to connect the cables by simply wrapping them with adhesive tape.
A look into Steve Jobs' home office
Here you can see the appearance and equipment of the office. Very austere and simple furnishings, a lamp and a roughly plastered brick wall. Here you can see that Steve likes something else besides apples - minimalism. There is a rustic wooden table by the window, under which hides a Mac Pro connected to a 30-inch Apple Cinema Display with an iSight camera attached. On the table next to the monitor you can see a mouse, keyboard and scattered papers including work "mess", which is said to represent a creative mind. You can also notice a strange phone with a large number of buttons, under which the most senior people from Apple are surely hiding.
I sincerely hope that his next incarnation will once again saddle the reins at Apple. I remember Steve as a person often. In times of low motivation, I play a video of his lecture at Stanford, which I consider to be the most important lecture ever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc
That speech is incredibly inspiring. I always have it on my iPhone and I play different passages at different times, which somehow make the given moment/day better, more thought-provoking...
Steve was and is a source of inspiration for me. RIP His soul will be in Apple products forever.
R.I.P.
Jobs will forever be an inspiration to me!!
R.I.P.