Posts tagged Steve Jobs
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.
Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify and vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as crazy, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.
Think Different. You Did. Thank you, Steve. RIP
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The world has lost a visionary. And there may be no greater tribute to Steve’s success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented.
Thank You, Steve Jobs. You’ll Be Missed.
We’ll miss you, Steve.
Charis Tsevis created mosaic portraits of Steve Jobs using many images of the Apple CEO’s innovations.
Mosaic Portraits of Steve Jobs
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The Real Music Man
Thursday, August 25, 2011 - 06:51 AM
Steve Jobs is not a musician, or a record producer, or a composer, at least not as far as anyone knows. But he has profoundly changed the way we hear music, the way music is produced, the way music is marketed. His twin masterstrokes, the iPod and iTunes, didn’t just make music more portable - we’d been heading in that direction since the Walkman 30 years ago. His innovations made music easy to find, to manage, to sort and re-sort, and to hear even in a noisy environment.
When Steve Jobs announced yesterday that he was stepping down as CEO of Apple, it marked the end of an era. You could argue whether the worlds of personal computing or communication would have been fundamentally different without Jobs and his steady parade of irresistible toys - desktops, laptops, tablets, phones. After all, other companies have been competing with Apple in these fields all along. But you simply cannot argue about his impact on the world of music.
Of course, this came at the cost of sound fidelity; you have to compress the sound quite a bit, meaning the lows become mediums and the highs also become mediums, changing the dynamic nature of the music dramatically. This in turn has affected how many modern recordings are made. But despite some inevitable pushback, it seems that most people are willing to give up the sonic purity of a beautifully-mastered recording with a wide dynamic range for a convenient sound file that they can actually hear in the car. And most record producers seem willing to follow suit.
Jobs’ inventions have helped make music an almost ubiquitous part of our lives. It’s a great irony that the cutting edge of Western technology has brought us closer to something that musicologists have long described, often with barely-disguised envy, in traditional cultures like those of sub-Saharan Africa or native Australians: the central role of music in daily life. Ancient cultures will have music for births, deaths, and every milestone in between. There are songs for chores, songs for hunting, songs for calling the livestock. Now, we have playlists for going into labor, for a long car ride, for a quiet date, for a hopefully hotter date, for hitting the treadmill. And don’t forget about marketing - there is hardly a better way to break a new band than to get their music onto an iTunes commercial.
Some say Jobs’ iWorld has cheapened music. Or they worry that the easy access to almost any music will make it less likely that people will MAKE music themselves. Well, there seem to be more bands then ever, and iTunes is a key way for artists and labels to actually make money; it offers an easy, relatively affordable, legal alternative to file-sharing.
For a guy who never recorded a song, or signed a band, or founded a label or a music festival, Steve Jobs has probably had more of an impact on the music world than any other person in the last quarter century - and possibly since Thomas Edison. Apple will no doubt continue, but what has distinguished Apple, and made it such a rarity among organizations of this scale, is that its corporate vision has essentially been a single individual’s vision - and that individual has just left the building.
Check out more from John Schaefer and the WNYC team here: http://www.wnyc.org
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Steve Jobs Action Figure DENIED!
“An action figure of Apple chief executive Steve Jobs has recently sold out online, after the iPhone maker filed a request to stop the marketing and sale of the toy, citing copyright infringement.”
I had previously posted about my desire to own one of these action figures - check it out here.
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Steve Jobs Action Figure
Strangely, I think I want one…
Whether he’s playing hero or villain in your personal technology drama, Apple CEO and marketer extraordinaire Steve Jobs likely has a role — and now the dramatis persona has his very own action figure to help you act it out. For $80, Jobs comes complete with his trademark black turtleneck and rimless glasses, nicely crinkled Levi’s jeans, a pair of New Balance sneakers, a miniature iPhone 4 and a truly epicbeard. He’s even got an Apple logo to stand on and a set of speech bubble cards, which hopefully work with a dry erase marker considering how often the man comes up with juicy new quotes. See the astounding level of detail at our source link, or even grab one for yourself.
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Brand Matters
How did Apple go from a $4 stock to a $241 stock? By getting back to the core of the brand. By delivering on it for customers. By a single-minded focus on design, usability, and customer experience. Nick Bilton, in the New York Times, recently shared this video and provides commentary about its origins. In it, Steve Jobs evangelizes about the return to the Apple brand.
The ideas contained in this video have similar implications for employer brands. Companies need to stand for something. They have to deliver a superior culture and experience in order to attract top talent.
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“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
