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Writer's Block: Remembering Steve Jobs
Oct. 6th, 2011 04:51 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
As a previous (and current) Apple product user, my opinion is probably biased, but here goes:
I applaud Steve Jobs as a visionary and innovator. But like any other human being out there, he had his flaws, and he would make decisions that would leave me scratching my head going "wtf"? (Case in point: not allowing Flash on iOS units, which ended up breaking a bunch of websites. At least he left well enough alone with OSX.)
My experience with Apple products has been a mixed bag. Back in 1993, when I was going to UCLA as a grad student, I bought a PowerBook 180c running System 7.1, mainly so I could share files with one of the professors who was also a Mac user (this was before PowerPoint became way popular). That PB 180c ended up consuming a sizable amount of my budget because it kept crashing and was unstable...not to mention that I spilled soda on it a couple of times. I switched to a Windows desktop sometime in 1996 or so and never looked back... or so I thought.
Fast foward to 2005 or so, when I got a MacBook Air and then later a MacBook Pro, the latter of which I'm using right now (I gave the former to my sister). Both systems run OSX fairly well, with relatively few issues (I won't lie, there are still a few issues, such as a tendency to overheat when viewing videos), but OSX is significantly better than System 7.1.
The upshot of all of this is that I think that Steve Jobs wanted to find ways to improve things even if they weren't always orthodox or by-the-book. Innovators always find ways to think outside the box, which in my book is always a plus. Of course, that runs the risks of doing stuff that may have people wondering what you were thinking, but then again Wayne Gretzky put it best when he said that "you miss 100% of the shots you never take."
As a previous (and current) Apple product user, my opinion is probably biased, but here goes:
I applaud Steve Jobs as a visionary and innovator. But like any other human being out there, he had his flaws, and he would make decisions that would leave me scratching my head going "wtf"? (Case in point: not allowing Flash on iOS units, which ended up breaking a bunch of websites. At least he left well enough alone with OSX.)
My experience with Apple products has been a mixed bag. Back in 1993, when I was going to UCLA as a grad student, I bought a PowerBook 180c running System 7.1, mainly so I could share files with one of the professors who was also a Mac user (this was before PowerPoint became way popular). That PB 180c ended up consuming a sizable amount of my budget because it kept crashing and was unstable...not to mention that I spilled soda on it a couple of times. I switched to a Windows desktop sometime in 1996 or so and never looked back... or so I thought.
Fast foward to 2005 or so, when I got a MacBook Air and then later a MacBook Pro, the latter of which I'm using right now (I gave the former to my sister). Both systems run OSX fairly well, with relatively few issues (I won't lie, there are still a few issues, such as a tendency to overheat when viewing videos), but OSX is significantly better than System 7.1.
The upshot of all of this is that I think that Steve Jobs wanted to find ways to improve things even if they weren't always orthodox or by-the-book. Innovators always find ways to think outside the box, which in my book is always a plus. Of course, that runs the risks of doing stuff that may have people wondering what you were thinking, but then again Wayne Gretzky put it best when he said that "you miss 100% of the shots you never take."
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