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by danaris
2798 days ago
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You know that happened twice, maybe three times, right? The iPod and the iPhone were it (and maybe the iPad). It's not something Apple did twice a week like clockwork while Jobs was alive, then just suddenly stopped when he died. This is exactly the kind of rose-colored glasses nneonneo was talking about. |
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- Created the personal computer industry (Apple Inc)
- Revolutionized the personal computer industry (Macintosh)
- Revolutionized film animation (Pixar)
- Shifted the electronic device industry to minimalist industrial design (iPod)
- Changed the entire music industry's distribution model (iTunes)
- Completely shifted the paradigm of a cellular phone and arguably began the adoption of the mobile internet (iPhone)
There are several other things people may consider visionary (candy colored iMac, getting rid of floppy drives, OSX, Newton, stuff at NeXT, tech advertising with the 1984 & Think Different campaigns, etc). I'm not even including things like the iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV, health metrics, etc which Jobs may have been working on before his death. Clearly Jobs had lots of help along the way and is not singularly responsible for each of these things - but he's the one who oversaw and, in many cases, drove the vision.
I'm no Apple fanboy and Jobs had a very dark side to his particular brand of genius, but I find it incredibly disingenuous to dismiss the impact that Jobs had on Apple and the industry in general. Tim Cook is a very solid Tech CEO, maybe even a great operational leader, but he is not a visionary leader and my concern is that Apple lost a fundamental element with the passing of Jobs.