Ashton Kutcher to play Steve Jobs
I disturbingly predicted this during my reading of Isaacson’s biography of Jobs, when I commented how much young Steve Jobs resembled Ashton Kutcher.
Playing look-alikes is fun.
The use of that last phrase, “style over substance” has always been, as Oscar Wilde observed, a marvellous and instant indicator of a fool. For those who perceive a separation between the two have either not lived, thought, read or experienced the world with any degree of insight, imagination or connective intelligence.
— Stephen Fry, from his tribute to Steve Jobs.
Here's to the Crazy One
http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/07/steve-jobs-the-crazy-one/
MG Siegler describes the significance of losing Steve Jobs at this point in history.
Also on TechCrunch, the best lesson we can take from Steve Jobs’ life: #LiveLikeSteve
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Stephen Fry's tribute to Steve Jobs
http://www.stephenfry.com/2011/10/06/steve-jobs
I will not be so presumptuous as to mourn the loss of Steve as a personal friend, but I will mourn his loss as a man who changed my world completely.
Apple’s homepage on the day Steve Jobs died.
It’s elegant and respectful, which are just a few of the qualities Steve has imbued in Apple.
The shiny new products take the back seat today.
Steve Jobs has passed away
So long, Steve. All the eulogies the internet wrote when you stepped down as CEO are now appropriate.
You were a visionary and you were thankfully able to share that vision with us. You will not be forgotten.
Apple’s products are replete with Apple-like features and details, embedded in Apple-like apps, running on Apple-like devices, which come packaged in Apple-like boxes, are promoted in Apple-like ads, and sold in Apple-like stores. The company is a fractal design. Simplicity, elegance, beauty, cleverness, humility. Directness. Truth. Zoom out enough and you can see that the same things that define Apple’s products apply to Apple as a whole. The company itself is Apple-like. The same thought, care, and painstaking attention to detail that Steve Jobs brought to questions like “How should a computer work?”, “How should a phone work?”, “How should we buy music and apps in the digital age?” he also brought to the most important question: “How should a company that creates such things function?” Jobs’s greatest creation isn’t any Apple product. It is Apple itself.
Steve Jobs resigns as Apple CEO
I’ve been bombarded all morning with people telling me the news, presumably because I’m their local Apple fanboy. As John Gruber writes, while the news does come as a shock, it is not unexpected at all. And Apple couldn’t be in a better position to soften the blow.
Tim Cook takes over as Apple CEO, a role which he’s been performing in everything but name since Jobs’s medical leave that began in January. Even during that short time Apple has done some amazing things. I think the company is in good hands, and Steve Jobs’s absence has been somewhat of a transition period.
With Steve Jobs now the Chairman of the Apple board, I don’t think he’ll necessarily be any less involved than he has been the last few months. I think we’ll still see him on stage every now and then.
So does Apple need Steve Jobs? I’d say the last few months have shown it doesn’t. Sure, Apple would be nothing without him, but the day had to come eventually. I’d wager that at least half of the people who own Apple products don’t even know who Steve Jobs is, so his departure seems unlikely to stem Apple’s growth and popularity. It just doesn’t logically follow that their products won’t be as great without him. He’s built up the company culture in such a way that Apple will continue to make great products after he’s gone, and with all the great new stuff they have coming just over the horizon, that will soon be very clear.
I won’t say goodbye like so many other bloggers have. Steve Jobs isn’t finished with Apple, and it just seems inappropriate. I will, however, echo their sentiments that Steve Jobs changed the world, and I’d add that Apple isn’t done changing the world just yet.
Update: Jason Snell’s article on MacWorld perfectly articulates my thoughts on the matter.
I had never seen this shot of a young Steve Jobs, um, saluting IBM before. Love it.
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