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From CNN:

Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple, has died, according to the company. He was 56.

The hard-driving executive pioneered the concept of the personal computer and of navigating them by clicking onscreen images with a mouse. In more recent years, he introduced the iPod portable music player, the iPhone and the iPad tablet -- all of which changed how we consume content in the digital age.

Jobs had battled cancer for years, took a medical leave from Apple in January and stepped down as CEO in August because he could "no longer meet (his) duties and expectations."

Wow. That's sad. Wonder if he'd trade all those accomplishments for an average lifespan.

You beat me to it Edith. I wanted to make sure it was true before I posted. RIP Steve.

May he rest in peace.

Yes. We all knew he was sick off and on but we didn't know he got this bad lately. It was some how kept very quiet ..surprisingly.

As far as computer technology to the home user is concerned, the world has lost probably the single, most innovative person of the past 35 years... (the computer itself, GUI, ipod, itunes, iphone, ipad.... were all pushed and introduced by Jobs / Apple to the masses). His visions became reality. Several of those visions changed how we interact with and use certain, now common, technologies. We got to give him that.

Ian

RIP, Steve

Thank You for changing my life!

He sure changed my life.
All of ours really.
Without a personal computer, there'd be no Internet Stones sites.
Thanks Steve. You had a hand in introducing me to all these crazies
that I love so dearly!!!

RIP

We were watching an Apple press conference at the news yesterday night, about the new iPhone version and I just said it's not the same without Jobs talking about the new products. Didn't think he'd be dead one day later :(

True pioneer indeed. And to think he started out from his garage to build all that.

The man truly made some incredible products, but he also made one of my most favourite quotes like in true Stones tradition:
"It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy".
Not bad for a Beatle fan! Rip Steve!

The only flaw on the iphone 5 is that, it doesn't work in heaven.

steel driving hammer wrote on Oct 6^th, 2011 at 12:02pm:

The only flaw on the iphone 5 is that, it doesn't work in heaven.

It will now. 8-)

R.I.P. So Sad, not really that old, 56, he left his mark on the world though when you think about it by his invention.

Here's a new twist on Jobs' legacy. Click on the video: http://www.autonews.com/article/20111006/VIDEO/310069899/1219

A Rolling Stone remembers Steve Jobs

Chuck Leavell, the keyboardist for the Rolling Stones and the co-founder of the Mother Nature Network, on the time Steve Jobs gave Mick Jagger an iTunes tutorial.
Fri, Oct 07 2011 at 2:08 PM EST

MODERN-DAY EINSTEIN: With the introduction of the iPod, Steve Jobs revolutionized the music business. (Photo: Zuma Press)

Steve Jobs totally reinvented how we as artists market, sell and promote our music. And of course he reinvented how people purchase, receive, store and enjoy their music through iTunes, iPods, i Phones and iPads.

I was in Mick Jagger's dressing room back in 2002 during the Forty Licks tour when Jobs gave Mick a presentation about iTunes. While iTunes had already launched the year before, it was still very new and was in the early days of catching on. Jobs was so articulate and passionate about what he had developed, and obviously very confident that this would completely change things for the music industry – and, of course, he was right.

Remember that this was during the time when Napster and other sites were, in essence, pirating music through the Internet, and Jobs had the foresight and integrity to put together a way to make music available through cyber-space and get the artists a share of the proceeds. I'll never forget his presentation in that dressing room, and I knew then that this guy was a true visionary.

Beyond the music aspect of what Jobs and Apple have created, when you think of all the other products and applications that they have invented, it is simply mind-boggling. The computers themselves, the software systems that run them, they way that they keep moving the bar higher and higher is just amazing. Not to mention the incredible connectivity and compatibility between all the devices they make.

Steve Jobs was the Michelangelo, the Davinci, the Einstein of technology -- all rolled into one. The world is a better and more interesting place because of him.

Chuck Leavell is the keyboardist for the Rolling Stones and the co-founder of the Mother Nature Network. He is also the author of several books including his most recent, ‘Growing a Better America: Smart, Strong and Sustainable.’

http://www.mnn.com/home-blog/guest-columnist/blogs/a-rolling-stone-remembers-steve-jobs

Apple's Steve Jobs RIP - Mick Jagger, Trent Reznor and Blink-182 pay tribute
October 6, 2011 9:10
NME

Coldplay, Nikki Sixx and Jared Leto also honour the Apple co-founder

Photo: PA

Mick Jagger, Trent Reznor and Blink-182 have all paid tribute to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who died yesterday aged 56.

Jobs, whose company has changed the face of how music is consumed and heard with the invention of the iPod and the huge success of iTunes, died after losing a long battle with pancreatic cancer.

Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger was one of the first to offer a tribute to Jobs, simply tweeting: "RIP Steve Jobs."

Nine Inch Nails mainman Trent Reznor did the same, writing: "Thanks for the tools, the inspiration, the possibilities... Miss you already Steve."

Blink-182 also honoured Jobs, tweeting: "RIP Steve Jobs. Thanks for everything that you have done for the music business and the world." 30 Seconds To Mars man Jared Leto did likewise, writing: "Maybe we can turn our phones and comps off at a certain time in honor of his contributions. RIP."

Coldplay also tweeted their respects, writing:

We are so sad to hear about the passing of Steve Jobs. In all of our encounters with him he was such a lovely man, and always so humble about his incredible talents. Like all of the people he knew, and the millions of others he didn't, we will miss him.

Guns N' Roses also took to their personal Twitter account to honour Jobs, they wrote: "When people say it's not about the possessions but how you're remembered — they are talking about people like Steve Jobs. RIP."

Zane Lowe also offered a heartfelt tribute, writing: "Steve Jobs RIP. A man whose exceptional vision helped to greatly sharpen ours." Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst also paid his respects – he simply wrote: "RIP Steve Jobs! True visionary."

Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx also offered his condolences and compared Jobs to inventor Thomas Edison, writing: "RIP Steve Jobs. Steve was of his era what Thomas Edison was to the beginning of the 20th century. You made all our lives a better place." Kids In Glass Houses frontman Aled Phillips also wrote of Jobs: "Just heard about Steve Jobs. Great loss. Made a huge impact on the modern world and a truly inspirational man. Left an indelible legacy. RIP."

Exclusive Q&A: Bono on Steve Jobs' Rock and Roll Spirit
"Sandal-wearing, anarchic music-lovers from California invented the 21st century," says the U2 frontman
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By Brian Hiatt
October 7, 2011 6:10 PM ET
bono steve jobs ipod

Bono and Steve Jobs announce the release of the U2 Special Edition iPod.
Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images

Steve Jobs came out of a Sixties rock and roll ethos, which is fascinating.
That's the big story. If you asked in the Eighties, "Who is going to invent the 21st century," you'd probably have thought the Japanese or maybe the British or the Germans. No, it was sandal-wearing, anarchic music-lovers from California. And that is fucking great.

In the Sixties, bands from the Bay Area felt they were going to change the world, but they didn't. They changed my world, they changed your world, but they didn't change the world. Before that happened, they disappeared, like so many of us do, up their own rectum – drugs and the vicissitudes took their toll.

However, the next generation really did change the world. The people who invented the 21st century had their consciousness shaped by music and by powerful rock and roll music, and it's not just Steve Jobs, it was Paul Allen, it was lots of people. I once put this to Bill Gates, I said, "I know you probably didn't listen to Jimi Hendrix," and Bill protested, "Are you kidding me, in all my time with Paul Allen, how could I have not been shaped by Jimi Hendrix? That's all we heard 10 hours a day."

It's remarkable what's come out of Haight-Ashbury. The children of the Sixties are seriously changing the world. Steve Jobs is right up there, he is, in many ways, the Bob Dylan of machines, he's the Elvis of the kind of hardware-software dialectic. He's a creature of quite progressive thinking, and his reverence for shape and sound and contour and creativity did not come from the boardroom.

Does the Elvis analogy really hold up?
I really respect people who are involved in business who have an artist's eye and ear. There are very few. Steve was a very, very tough and tenacious guardian of the Apple brand, but the thing that endeared him to artists was his insistence that things had to be beautiful. He wasn't going to make ugly things that made profits.

The big lesson for capitalism is that Steve, deep down, did not believe the consumer was right. Deep down, he believed that he was right. And that the consumer would respect a strong aesthetic point of view, even if it wasn't what they were asking for. He believed that deep down, if he served what was right and what was great, then he would serve the Apple shareholder, and if he chased what they wanted, he would let them down.

What's the essence of his legacy?
This dude, my friend, and I'm proud to say, my colleague – he changed music, he changed film, he changed the personal computer. It's a wonderful encouragement to people who want to think differently, that's where artists connect with him. The picture of Einstein with his tongue sticking out, that's actually the very heart of the brand, and that's the punk rock piece, the attitude, and the anarchic mind that dreamt up the 21st century. That's a real encouragement for people who didn't go to an Ivy League school, who don't know how to use a knife and fork, who don't have the right accent. That anarchic West Coast "fuck off" attitude actually rules the 21st century. That's what's happening on the streets of Cairo, that's what's happening in North Africa – received wisdom is being balked at. A gnarly, singular point of view, like Steve Jobs, feels like a lighthouse spinning: When you're in the fog, you just go, "I'll go over there."

How did U2's association with Steve Jobs and Apple begin?
Steve was trying to sort out one of the fundamental questions of the age: is there any value to a musician's work? He thought that with iTunes, he could make it easier for people who wanted to respect intellectual copyright. So we had the idea to offer "Vertigo" for an iPod commercial, and we went out to see Steve at his house in Palo Alto and he was like, "What? You guys want to give me a song for a commercial? Wow, that's great, that's amazing." Then we said we wanted to be in the commercial, and he said "Maybe, yeah, I don't see why not."

Then we said we don't want to be paid, but we'd like a U2 iPod, a black one. His first response was, "That doesn't work at all. iPods are white!" But it turned out lots of people wanted them – and not because of U2. Because they were red and black!

I then pressed on Steve in terms of the global fight against AIDS, and his wife had been a great supporter of the Global Fund, which the UN had set up to try and get AIDS drugs to people, and Steve was very open to this and I can tell you that after his contribution to the (RED) Global Fund to buy drugs for people who would be dead without them, there are tens of thousands of people who owe the rest of their lives to Apple's commitment.

What was your relationship like?
In my own involvement with him, my real personal enjoyment of him as a man, he was a clear thinker, on lots of subjects, and I could turn to him. My actual last conversation with him was he called me because he was worried about my health, which is a clue to him. This tough guy was very tender, and he said, "I don't like the look of you, you look worn out," and I said, "What? I'm fine!" He wouldn't listen to me.

When I hurt my spine and I was in trouble, this package arrived of books and CDs and music and honey from their garden – tons of stuff arrived at the house. And so, yes, he was a captain of industry, a warrior for his companies. But I found him to be a very thoughtful friend, and a wonderfully detailed and interested parent of his kids, and lover of his wife. There were those two sides to him, the warrior, and then the very, very tender and soft-spoken side. I already miss him.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/exclusive-bono-on-steve-jobs-rock-and-roll-spirit-20111007?utm_source=dailynewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter

Steve Jobs Bio: 10 Things to Know About the Late Apple Leader

By IBTimes Staff Reporter | October 22, 2011 3:21 PM EDT

The highly-anticipated biography of Steve Jobs will be available Monday, and judging by advance attention, it promises to be an all-time great, capable of briefly reviving the sagging book hardcover book business.

The massive, 600-plus page work by Walter Isaacson, titled simply "Steve Jobs," has been in the hands of several journalists and media outlets that got an early look. Since Isaacson was the one and only biographer to get unobstructed access to Jobs, with nothing off limits, the book about the Apple co-founder and long-time CEO is apparently quite revealing, and worth the read.

Among those with advance copies are The New York Times, Associated Press, Washington Post, and Huffington Post, which have been busy in recent days letting out key tidbits and nuggets about Jobs from the book. Thus, here are 10 things to know about the Steve Jobs bio, in advance of Monday's release:

1) Jobs really did despise Android, Google's mobile operating system that's a competitor to Apple. Jobs was apparently quite upset when HTC unveiled an Android phone in early 2010 that had many Apple @#$%& features.

"I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong," Jobs reportedly said in the book. "I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this."

2) Jobs wanted to reinvent television, and textbooks. According to the Washington Post, Isaacson writes that Jobs "very much wanted to do for television sets what he had done for computers, music players, and phones: make them simple and elegant."

"I'd like to create an integrated television set that is completely easy to use," Jobs said.

As for textbooks: "The process by which states certify textbooks is corrupt," Jobs told Isaacson, according to the Huffington Post. "But if we can make the textbooks free, and they come with the iPad, then they don't have to be certified. The crappy economy at the state level will last for a decade, and we can give them an opportunity to circumvent that whole process and save money."

3) Jobs told President Bill Clinton he needed to "tell the country" about his affair with intern Monica Lewinsky. Jobs apparently "received a late night phone call from Bill Clinton asking how to handle the Monica Lewinsky scandal" at which time he told Clinton, "I don't know if you did it, but if so, you've got to tell the country."

Jobs told Isaacson at that point there was silence on the other end of the line.

4) Jobs expected to die young, and perhaps even facilitated that thought by delaying cancer surgery. Jobs apparently told former Apple CEO John Sculley he expected to die young, and needed to accomplish a lot in a hurry to make his mark on Silicon Valley.

"We all have a short period of time on this earth," he told Sculley. "We probably only have the opportunity to do a few things really great and do them well. None of us has any idea how long we're going to be here nor do I, but my feeling is I've got to accomplish a lot of these things while I'm young."

Isaacson also reports that Jobs delayed cancer surgery for nine months. Jobs' wife Laurene said, "The big thing was that he really was not ready to open his body.

"It's hard to push someone to do that."

Jobs, of course, died of cancer at the age of 56 on October 5. He also revealed to Isaacson apparently that he regretted delaying the cancer surgery.

5) Jobs did LSD at one point in his life, and liked the experience. Jobs said LSD "reinforced my sense of what was important -- creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could."

6) Jobs wasn't overly impressed when meeting Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones. "I think he was on drugs," Jobs told Isaacson. "Either that or he's brain damaged." :blankfriggingstare1

7) Jobs, who was adopted, actually met his real father -- even though neither one of them realized it. Jobs later found out, however, what had happened, and who the owner of the Mediterranean restaurant in Silicon Valley was.

"It was amazing. I had been to that restaurant a few times, and I remember meeting the owner. He was Syrian. Balding. We shook hands.

"But I was a wealthy man by then, and I didn't trust him not to try to blackmail me or go to the press about it," said Jobs, according to the Daily Mail.

8) Jobs told President Barack Obama upon meeting him that Obama would be a one-term president. Jobs was apparently annoyed by the meeting in the first place. It had been arranged by his wife. Jobs was told the President was "really pysched" to meet him. But Jobs felt Obama should have asked him for the meeting himself. Once they finally met, Jobs also told Obama that teacher unions were crippling America's education system.

9) Jobs was against conspicuous consumption. He suggsted to Isaacson that some Apple employees became "bizarro people" after they became rich from company stock.

10) Jobs was 50-50 on whether there is a God or not. Jobs told Isaacson he quit going to church at the age of 13 after he saw starving people on the cover of Life magazine. He later studied Zen Buddhism. Jobs apparently swayed a bit more closely to believing there might be a God in the final years of his life, after the cancer diagnosis.

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/235909/20111022/steve-jobs-bio-apple-leader-ceo-walter-isaacson.htm

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