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stringtapper wrote:You're right. Mr. Wong deserves a hand in all this.

<- thanks to this guy the iPhone 4s will be on the shelves in record time.

Styles Bitchly wrote:I'll play the devil's advocate here and toss something out that I don't see being mentioned very much in the blitz of Steve Jobs accolades and memorial sentiments.

I agree that Jobs was a visionary and a mover/shaker, but how about all of the unsung hero's in the backwater that toiled to bring his ideas to fruition. The iPhone, iPod and iPad were not conceived and brought to life in a vaccuum. Imagine the legions of engineers and computer scientists that contributed their ideas and input into bringing these products to the store shelves. Granted, Jobs was an idea guy and it always has to start with great concepts, but lets not forget about the grunts that made it all happen. You don't hear too much about these folks. However, in the trade of 'Cult Of Personality', that's usually the case and folks shouldn't lose sight of that. I'm just sayin....

Andy Hertzfeld wrote: Lots of people at Apple were afraid of Steve Jobs, because of his spontaneous temper tantrums and his proclivity to tell everyone exactly what he thought, which often wasn't very favorable. But he was always nice to me, although sometimes a bit dismissive, in the few interactions that I had with him. I was excited to be talking with him about working on the Mac.

The first thing he said to me when I walked into his office was "Are you any good? We only want really good people working on the Mac, and I'm not sure you're good enough." I told him that yes, I thought that I was pretty good. I was friends with Burrell, and had already helped him out with software a few times.

"I hear that you're creative", Steve continued. "Are you really creative?"

I told him that I wasn't the best judge of that, but that I'd love to work on the Mac, and thought that I'd do a great job. He said he'd get back to me soon about it.

A couple of hours later, around 4:30pm, I was back to work on DOS 4.0 for the Apple II. I was working on low-level code for the system, interrupt handlers and dispatchers, when all of a sudden I notice Steve Jobs peering over the wall of my cubicle.

"I've got good news for you", he told me. "You're working on the Mac team now. Come with me and I'll take you over to your new desk."

"Hey, that's great", I responded. "I just need a day or two to finish up what I'm doing here, and I can start on the Mac on Monday."

"What are you working on? What's more important than working on the Macintosh?"

"Well, I've just started a new OS for the Apple II, DOS 4.0, and I want to get things in good enough shape so someone else could take it over."

"No, you're just wasting your time with that! Who cares about the Apple II? The Apple II will be dead in a few years. Your OS will be obsolete before it's finished. The Macintosh is the future of Apple, and you're going to start on it now!".

With that, he walked over to my desk, found the power cord to my Apple II, and gave it a sharp tug, pulling it out of the socket, causing my machine to lose power and the code I was working on to vanish. He unplugged my monitor and put it on top of the computer, and then picked both of them up and started walking away. "Come with me. I'm going to take you to your new desk."

LoopStationZebra wrote:There is no substitute for amazing LEADERSHIP.

Styles Bitchly wrote: I agree that Jobs was a visionary and a mover/shaker, but how about all of the unsung hero's in the backwater that toiled to bring his ideas to fruition. The iPhone, iPod and iPad were not conceived and brought to life in a vaccuum. Imagine the legions of engineers and computer scientists that contributed their ideas and input into bringing these products to the store shelves. Granted, Jobs was an idea guy and it always has to start with great concepts, but lets not forget about the grunts that made it all happen.....

Jagang wrote:I usually don't care when 'famous' people die. It's a part of life after all.

For some reason this has affected me a bit. I hate to see a person with such a zest for life taken so soon. That picture posted about a month ago in some various thread here with Jobs looking extremely sick kinda haunts me, his eyes were so alive but his body was all but dead. Here's hoping his family the best in their time of sorrow.

LoopStationZebra wrote:BTW, every other big tech company has people on staff that are just as talented..just as smart..just as creative..as anyone who's ever worked at Apple.

So, comments made in reference to 'Steve didn't do it alone!' are quite true.