A Year and a Couple Days - Steve Jobs

If you're a frequent reader of The Blog (at) TerryLyons.com - you'll surely remember my column on the passing of Steve Jobs of Apple.  It's been a year and a couple of days now, and, in case you missed it, Apple posted a fitting tribute to Jobs on their homepage on Oct. 5.  It's still there if you want to check it out.

The video is short and simple, as is the message from Tim Cook, the current Apple CEO.

"Steve's passing one year ago today was a sad and difficult time for all of us. I hope that today everyone will reflect on his extraordinary life and the many ways he made the world a better place.

One of the greatest gifts Steve gave to the world is Apple. No company has ever inspired such creativity or set such high standards for itself. Our values originated from Steve and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple. We share the great privilege and responsibility of carrying his future legacy into the future.

I'm incredibly proud of the work we are doing, delivering products that our customers love and dreaming up new ones that will delight them down the road. It’s a wonderful tribute to Steve's memory and everything he stood for."

Nicely done.

If you don't remember my column from a year ago, here's the link: STEVE JOBS, 56.

Here is Apple's tribute: (How cool is it that Jobs quotes Wayne Gretzky as the innovator!

Technology itself is not enough.

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Still the One - Congrats iPhone 5

Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Edison, Martin Luther King Jr., Bill Gates, John Lennon, Prince, George Lucas  - so who's got next?

Steve Jobs, 56

Steve Jobs, 1955-2011

 (This is being typed on a MacBook Pro, researched via its Safari browser on a FIOS by Verizon fibre optic line. It will be read on Macs, iPhones, iPads as well as many other desktop, laptop, and hand-held devices that try to keep up with the pace-setters in Cupertino, Calif). (accompanying photo courtesy, Apple Inc.)

By TERRY LYONS

The worldwide impact made by Steve Jobs is unimaginable.  Quite simply, he is a legend.  There has never been a human being who has changed the world in so many different ways.  There has never been a CEO/businessman who has made world class and industry-leading contributions to so many different aspects of the way we consume content and information. Just stop and think about it as I count the ways...

• Apple and the MacIntosh computer - just the beginning
• Pixar and the impact it made in the motion picture industry
• The MacBook and MacBook Pro - simply the very best in laptop computing
• iMacs and their variations which gradually introduced the youth of the 2000s to home and school computing
• iTunes and the impact it made on the retail, music, tv and recording industries
• iPods and their many variations (Shuffle, nano, touch, etc) over the years and the collective impact on the way we consume music and video
• iPhones - simply the best in hand-held "devices" and their impact to our lives, our productivity, the delivery of information, voice, data, music, video and television
• iPhoto and the way we use digital photography
• iMovie, iDVD and Final Cut Pro - simply the best in desktop/laptop editing
• iPads and their impact on portable computing, public presentations, and the hundreds of thousands of "Apps" that are an endless stream of potential, efficiency, capitalism, entertainment and innovation

Without even making a stretch, the list of industries that Steve Jobs and Apple have positively effected is staggering. I count no fewer than ten (update: make that 11) MAJOR industries totally changed because of Jobs.

• Computer industry
• Education at all levels, especially the young
• Motion picture industry
• Photography industry, impact in all aspects (just ask Kodak).
• Music industry from iTunes' game-changing impact to GarageBand's ease
• Retail industry because of iTunes Store and Apple store.
• Television industry, production, editing and massive consumer impact
• Newspaper/Magazine and Publishing industries
• Internet/Online/Silicone Valley industry
• Communications industries (telephone, wireless, voice/data)
• Automobile industry as all vehicles had to become iPod ready

And, this list doesn't take into consideration the way the Sports industry, Financial world, convention and hotel industries, travel and literally dozens of others have had to adapt to the iPhone, iPad, iTunes world we live in.

Genius does not even come close to defining the global impact made by this man and his management of brilliant co-workers at Apple/Pixar, all of it a very positive impact that will remain with humankind for generations and generations to come.

May God Bless Steve Jobs, his family and his colleagues at Apple.

Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs - legend, dead at 56.

Name Change? IPad? to IPASS

Seems like the IPad is not making the cut during these tough times.  People will pay for their persoanl communications but not for extra items for the home, home business or business office.  Maybe schools can be a future market for the IPad.  I do not know.  See this From CNET:


I know that so many of you have been a little undecided on this important subject, so this seriously significant information may be enough to sway you as to your own deeply conflicted feelings.
The majority of your fellow humans are not interested in owning an iPad.
No, I haven't been pounding the streets and screens of this world in order to ask everyone still living and breathing after the iPad launch announcement. Instead, I have lucked upon a an article in Computerworld, which tells me of some survey work performed by online retailer Retrevo.
Retrevo, being a retailer of electronic things, possibly performed this research in order to know how many iPads it should have in stock. However, having spoken to more than 1,000 Americans, yes, perhaps even 1,001, its conclusion seems to be "not so many."
In interpreting their data, Manishi Rathi, Retrevo's co-founder, told Computerworld that all the twitching of mouths and tremors in tingly parts that accompanied the launch actually put people off.
Before Steve Jobs took to his armchair at Yerba Buena, 26 percent of those surveyed said that they had heard of the iPad, but wouldn't be buying one. This positively leaped to 52 percent immediately after Jobs revealed his new plaything.


These figures immediately led Retrevo's Rahimi to tell Computerworld: "I don't see this as a game-changer."
You see, if you're worried about where to put your money just put your mouth, filled with searching questions, to more than 1,000 Americans' eyes and ears.
Rahimi's thesis was, in the tablet of his own mind, confirmed even more powerfully by another of the survey's questions. Before the launch, 49 percent of respondents declared they didn't need an iPad. But after the seated soliloquy of Steve Jobs, this figure ballooned to 61 percent.
Some, perhaps those more dedicated to Apple's core, might respond that they don't need to date Megan Fox, but they still might choose to, given the opportunity. Still, Rahimi believes that purchasers are rational beings: "There's just no killer app that goes on the tablet."


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