Steve Jobs Has Died Age 56

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10-07-2011, 07:56 AM
Olls

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Originally Posted by sega16

Silly question....How is something without a keyboard gonna help someone type.How is that user friendly?

Uhm, it has a keyboard.
10-07-2011, 12:57 PM
j_factor

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Originally Posted by Kamahl

Stop mixing the up the words innovation and invention. They don't mean the same thing. I see that shit everywhere.
"Steve didn't invent the GUI or the smartphone or the...!"
"No one ever said he did..."
"But you said he was a great innovator!"
*facepalm*

I see articles calling him our generation's Thomas Edison. Edison was an inventor.
10-07-2011, 01:00 PM
Clessy

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Originally Posted by Olls

Uhm, it has a keyboard.

On screen keyboards dont count. You can only touch to type on a ipad if you have small girlish hands like me. If you dont you'll be typing on it as if it was a cell phone which sucks.
10-07-2011, 03:16 PM
Kamahl

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Originally Posted by j_factor

I see articles calling him our generation's Thomas Edison. Edison was an inventor.

Who stole from tesla ;).
10-07-2011, 03:22 PM
Guntz

^I'd rep you for that correction... But the site won't let me... :(
10-07-2011, 03:47 PM
eddiespruce

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Originally Posted by Guntz

^I'd rep you for that correction... But the site won't let me... :(

Don't worry, I just did.:)
10-07-2011, 04:08 PM
evildragon

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Originally Posted by Clessy

On screen keyboards dont count. You can only touch to type on a ipad if you have small girlish hands like me. If you dont you'll be typing on it as if it was a cell phone which sucks.

You do realize you can in fact use keyboards on iPads, iPhones, and iPod touches, right?
10-07-2011, 05:00 PM
Chilly Willy

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Originally Posted by Kamahl

Who stole from tesla ;).

He did swipe a number of things, but he also had quite a few things he actually invented as well. REAL inventions, not these phony "is not" inventions you see these days... and I use the term invention sarcastically as I don't consider them inventions at all.

Jobs was just a businessman who knew how to take advantage of people's "Ooooo shiny!" reflex. He has a big place in the world of computers, but there's no need to inflate his image with comparisons to REAL inventors and pioneers.
10-07-2011, 05:03 PM
xelement5x

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Originally Posted by Kamahl

Who stole from tesla ;).

Yeah, I had to rep you there. That's probably the best thing I've read all day. :)
10-07-2011, 05:08 PM
Bastardcat

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Originally Posted by Chilly Willy

Jobs was just a businessman who knew how to take advantage of people's "Ooooo shiny!" reflex. He has a big place in the world of computers, but there's no need to inflate his image with comparisons to REAL inventors and pioneers.

This.
10-07-2011, 05:09 PM
Kamahl

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Originally Posted by Chilly Willy

Jobs was just a businessman who knew how to take advantage of people's "Ooooo shiny!" reflex. He has a big place in the world of computers, but there's no need to inflate his image with comparisons to REAL inventors and pioneers.

By saying REAL inventors you're implying jobs is one. He isn't. Like I said, he was an innovator and a visionary, which is different.
Claiming he was little more than a businessman who knew how to take advantage of people's "Oooo shiny!" reflex is something that can only come from someone that hasn't used apple products. It's not about the "shinyness", it's the attention to detail.
Use a regular trackpad, then use a mac trackpad. See the difference. Sure, jobs didn't design the trackpads on macs, but he made sure they were that way, he understood the importance.
That's something other businessman lack, and a big reason why he's admired.
10-07-2011, 07:13 PM
sega16

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Originally Posted by Kamahl

it's the attention to detail.
Use a regular trackpad, then use a mac trackpad. See the difference. Sure, jobs didn't design the trackpads on macs, but he made sure they were that way, he understood the importance.
That's something other businessman lack, and a big reason why he's admired.

I realy dont see why small details should make something cost twice as much as it should.
10-07-2011, 07:28 PM
Kamahl

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Originally Posted by sega16

I realy dont see why small details should make something cost twice as much as it should.

Then you are not apple's target audience.
10-07-2011, 07:30 PM
Chilly Willy

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Originally Posted by Kamahl

By saying REAL inventors you're implying jobs is one.

I said there was no reason to compare him to real inventors, implying he ISN'T one. I guess you read that wrong. :)

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He isn't. Like I said, he was an innovator and a visionary, which is different.
Claiming he was little more than a businessman who knew how to take advantage of people's "Oooo shiny!" reflex is something that can only come from someone that hasn't used apple products.

I've used Apple products since the Apple II days. I've still got my iMac set up, but I run Xubuntu on it more often than OSX (it's set to triple boot Xubuntu, OSX, and OS9).

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It's not about the "shinyness", it's the attention to detail.

No, it's shininess. :D

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Use a regular trackpad, then use a mac trackpad. See the difference. Sure, jobs didn't design the trackpads on macs, but he made sure they were that way, he understood the importance.
That's something other businessman lack, and a big reason why he's admired.

There are PLENTY of PC companies who had just as much an eye for details. Ever tried a Toshiba Libretto? Now THERE'S a palm top computer! Jobs just found the proper mix of shininess vs detail and spun it with good advertising (something MS has NEVER figured out).
10-07-2011, 07:31 PM
profholt82

Look, regardless of whether or not you like his products, there's no denying the man's influence. Jobs ushered in the very idea of a home computer. Granted, he didn't actually invent many of the products he came out with, but he made them better and, more importantly, made them known. He didn't invent the home computer, mouse, graphic interface, mp3 player, etc., but he designed brilliant versions of them and made people want them. He changed the way we communicate as a society in so many ways. I don't think any single person has had a greater impact on the world the past 30 years than Steve Jobs.

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