October 14 declared 'Steve Jobs Day' As rumors spread that Apple's cofounder and former CEO might show up at Tuesday's "Let's talk iPhone" event, a group of clever fanbois has proclaimed next Friday, October 14, as "Steve Jobs Day", and has asked the world to celebrate "a day to honor the man himself and say thank you." The rumors fluttering around the interwebs …
Sure Jobs is a bit of a prick, but he's also a visionary technologist who brought about modern smart phones and tablets as we know them today.
He ruffles feathers, treats people unfairly and has a legal team that would pull the plug on terminally ill children if ordered to and the law allowed, but the man has been such a positive force in computing. He's given people what they want and wowed people with ideas and drive.
You don't have to agree with him or think he's a "nice person" to acknowledge what he has positively contributed.
Now that's just a stupid comment.
Care to name more CEO who even responded to some customer's emails at all? Plus Apple's overall customer service is one of the best in the industry.
Plus how does he take all the the credit? He not only gives credit to his team but also brings along some of the creative geniuses during his keynotes, eg. Jony Ive.
It's fine if you don't like the man, but those are the wrong reasons.
We're talking about global companies, not your neighbourhood ISPs.
Wake me up when you get an e-mail reply from Steve Ballmer, Larry Page, Leo Apotheker, Choi Gee Sung...
Yes, his replies are short but effective. He once replied to a question I sent related to movie production and even got a senior director at Pixar to get in touch and give me some guidance on a project. That's 5 stars service in my book.
@jake: Lol ARPANET? Is that really a serious comparison? OK I have x400 emails from the Swiss president but I was hoping something in the last say 10 years, you know, when CEOs started getting 1000s of emails a day?
@rameses: not really a summary, people just need to have a better sense of porportion? I trade emails with my fishmonger every day and he owns the shop but he would be a bad example to compare with the a CEO of a major multinational company.
I've even listed a few smilar positioned CEOs, if you are an end user who got emails from any of them I'll be happy to be told I'm wrong in my judgment.
Do you even know who the Toms Watson were? Or Grace Hopper? Or who ken is? Or rms? Much less their place in history that makes your fondle-slab possible?
Shirley you know who Hewlett & Packard were. Hopefully you know who Case and Leonsis are ... But maybe not. You might be too young. The fact that you laugh off the likes of Bob Kahn & Vint Cerf tells me all I need to know. Get back to school, child. You still have a lot to learn.
I get nearly weekly emails from the CEO of Zenith Infotech - A global technology company and a leader in backup solutions, and can pick up the phone and call the VP of operations if I want (and have in the past)
The difference between them and Steve "I buy transplants to survive cancer for another few years" Jobs is that they don't tell me to sod off when I call or email them, they step on their employees to fix the problem, and make it right by the customer.
Then again, I'm sure you're going to say they don't count because they are Indian aren't you.
Well ... I have email archived from Tom Watson, Grace Hopper, and both Hewlett & Packard. Throw in rms & ken, and an odd sprinkling of early ARPANet folks, followed by bemused comments by Steve Case & Ted Leonsis, and I think I can safely say that Jobs answering email personally ain't exactly unique.
Did you spend any time with Usenet in the early days? If so, you'll know t'Brass weren't exactly uncomfy using text to communicate with the cognizant ...
I can also safely say that Steve's not the guy you think he is ... That's all marketing bullshit. He's actually quite personable, in person ... I know, he was my neighbor for several years in North Palo Alto's Johnson Park neighborhood. We often shared iced tea on my front porch. I never once felt the urge to hit him firmly on the nose in RealLife[tm] ... Why he allows his marketing department to portray him that way is beyond me^W^W a matter of finances.
As a side note, it's not a "team". It's a "marketing department". Spot the difference, win a cookie/biscuit.
In the quote, the thing the camel is passing through is actually a proper noun. The Eye of the Needle was a very narrow gate into the city, made for people on foot. You could get a camel through it, but it would be very, very difficult. Hence, what Jesus meant was not that it was impossible for the rich to get into heaven, but that they'd have to work extremely hard to do it.
Except there has never been any evidence of the existence of such a gate or of any entrance to the city with that name .
I think what the chap in the book meant was the actual eye of an actual needle.
It is still possible, however; one could blend the camel then pour it through.
"In the quote, the thing the camel is passing through is actually a proper noun."
The reason for the camel/needle conjunction here is because the word 'camel' refers not to a foul-tempered ship of the desert but to one of its original meanings. As any schoolboy should know a camel is also a rope.
This is why then the eye of the needle makes sense here; in other words it's hard to get a rope through the eye of a needle.
I don't mind honouring him, for his spectacular success in business. I have nothing to thank him for, though: I may have admired an Apple product from a distance, for its looks, but I have never felt the need to get any closer, let alone buy one.
Well done Steve, but, err ...no thanks.
He's gets up the morning, takes a dump, has a shave and eats breakfast. Just the same as millions of us do every day! He has a knack for hiring the best people able to spot a good trend and make Mr Jobs even wealthier. Good for him, I sincerely wish him all the best!
To borrow a line from BlackAdder:
"When asked who most people would rather meet, Steve Jobs or the man who cleans the toilets in Aberdeen city centre? It's wee Jock Poo-Pong McPlop every time!"
September 19.
Forgot me eyepatch and me parrot.
Oi takes me plastic cutlass wi' me wherever I drop anchor in whosoever's lagoon, however, just in case her man walks in. For forgettin' 'em, I should walk the plank meself! Oh, well. Back to Davy's locker for another year...
Ho, ho, ho, and a bottle of rum...
http://www.talklikeapirate.com/
...but there are times when it just irks me to know that there are people out there with way too much free time on their hands, incapable of thinking for themselves. Talk about riding the coat-tails of SJ just to sell your product? That's shameful. Makes me ashamed to admit owning Apple products knowing there are SJ worshippers of that ilk out there behaving like ... with that creepy glazed look.
Close the drapes; I'm not getting up today.
Turns out 5 October was Steve Jobs Day.
As someone who doesn't buy Apple products on principle for many reasons, I still recognise the effect Jobs has had on personal tech. Without him PC design wouldn't be nearly as innovative and what would the state of smart phones be? At least his vision and drive have forced his competitors to evolve or die.
We won't talk about any character faults he may have had or the anti-consumer and anti-competitive practices of Apple ... just for a few days at least, okay?
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