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  • "The iPod team at Apple took about a year to design and launch the first iPod in October 2001. That team consisted of: Jon Rubinstein, Jonathan Ive, Tony Fadell, Michael Dhuey, Tim Wasko"

  • @canufi

    You forgot Steve Jobs :)

  • on par with thomas edison? steve jobs didn't invent anything, he repackaged things and reinvented.

  • @canufi Bitch please he invented the ipod

  • @TheDarknight2222 the ipod is just an mp3 player, nothing new about it. mp3 players existed in Windows 3.1 days

  • @canufi OMG, get a grip. The first commercially available mp3 player was released in 1998, well after Windows 3.1, and it had precious little in common with the iPod - even the original one! They both played music in digital files that was transferred from a computer, that's about it... It's like saying there was nothing new about the 1984 Macintosh compared to the original Apple I computer. They were both computers, right? *rolls eyes*

  • @Fritha71 many people dislike the Microsoft like vendor lockin that apple puts you in with the iPod... why the f**k can't you just copy files onto it like a real mp3 player? what's with forcing people to use itunes? It is not innovative.. what is innovative about it? the shape of it? the scroll wheel? come on, that's like claiming Kia invented cars because their cars have different steering wheels. Thomas Edison? give me a break. Did jobs even INVENT the ipod? or did he hire people?

  • apple is the best company ever

  • Fantastic collagen! Notice how smooth his forehead is.

  • Thanks Steve,we never forget you.

  • @jchintoyin So it's his influence on society now?

    You honestly think the current apple culture of today is commendable thing? Or are you assuming that we would not have gotten the home pc as a norm as early without Jobs?

    Both are false assumptions, and the first one is even rather grotesque. Jobs has held back the entire industry with his brand naming and anti-customization. I seriously has nothing against the guy, but his influence on the industry, hell, the entire world, was awful.

  • @lusteraliaszero Jobs? No influence on society?

    You must be very jealus for the guy.

    Just think of what a difference he made for the children with Pixar's stuff (if you have children ).

  • @stevespeeder No influence on society? I would never claim such a thing, Steve Jobs has definitely had an influence on society, but a very negative one.

    I'm not jealous, but I wouldn't say no to his fortune if that's what you mean.

    By the way, he was in no was a vital part of pixar, at best a mascot.

  • @lusteraliaszero "No vital part.." LOL

    ..from wiki " Jobs was co-founder and served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios.

    He was credited in Toy Story (1995) as an executive producer. He remained CEO and majority shareholder at 50.1 percent until its acquisition by The Walt Disney Company in 2006"

  • @stevespeeder Eh, I guess you misunderstood me.

    he played no vital part in its success, he simply had ownership.

    That's like saying harry potters success was due to the publisher that bought the selling rights.

  • @lusteraliaszero Yeah right ...

  • @stevespeeder Amazing retort

  • @lusteraliaszero Why would his influence be negative? Unless you're one of those philosophical nuts that thinks the Internet and PCs ruined society, Jobs did nothing but innovate technology.

  • @PoliticalHell to this day apple encourages non-customisable oversimplified OS and hardware, that increasingly limits the customers control. and vast parts of the industry is playing follow the leader. Steve has not done enough if barely any innovation of purely technical value to ever make up for how his business philosophy has held the entire industry back. I would not be surprised if we would be alot farther along the line now without steves last decade of influence, on a pure hardware level.

  • @lusteraliaszero That's just dumb. Companies are playing "follow the leader" because the leader actually knows what they're doing. And you're not at all restricted to Apple products. Go buy other crap if you want customization. Install Linux on your PC! I think there's more to a computer than the ability to customize it.

    Some of Jobs's contributions: Personal computers, digital music distribution, all-in-one desktops, modern touch smartphone, modern tablets.

  • @PoliticalHell @PoliticalHell That's just dumb. The industry follows the leader because he makes money, not because they're good at what they do.

    the pc was not invented by jobs, neither was digital music distribution(by gods no, that was an old idea when apple gave it a shot). i don't know what qualifies as an all in one desktop, but I'm willing to assume he didn't. He absolutely didn't make the first smart phone and I don't know about tablets.

  • @lusteraliaszero So, you think that a community spawned around crappy products? From my experience, whenever you have a fanbase around something, that something is usually good, at least in the eyes of the fans. I can't stress enough how much you don't matter in this equation. If you don't like it and 100 other people do, guess what? They'll be trying to please the other 100. Get over it.

  • The idea of a "personal" computer marketed towards the average user was pioneered by Jobs. Maybe he wasn't the only one, but he obviously did it the best.

    Jobs contracted with media companies and convinced them to sell their songs at 99 cents a pop and showed how profitable this could be to them. This stopped media companies from being desperate and trying to sue-away companies like Napster.

    All-in-one means all components in one.

    He designed the first touch-based app-driven smartphone.

  • @PoliticalHell You're completely missing the point. Steve has created something alot of people either like, or think they like. The claim was that steve had pioneered anything, and he has done nothing of note.

    I quite simply mean that without his recent influence, our computers would have stronger processors and better graphic cards as the market would be aiming to please the customised customer. He sucks in an objective sense, his subjective feats are.. well, they're subjective.

  • @lusteraliaszero That market bloomed all the same. Do you really think Apple slowed down this innovation? If anything, companies like Dell and HP packed the highest-end processors and video cards with their computers so they had a field on which to compete with Apple. Intel never stopped producing amazing CPUs just because Apple didn't buy them. In fact, they won Apple over by innovating their technology. Without Apple's competition, other companies would arguably slack off even more.

  • @jchintoyin his technology wasn't, maybe his products were, but it wasn't his technology.

    certainly richer, but he wasn't a particularly great mind. If I had to be sad for every intellect greater than mine passing away, I wouldn't have time to do anything else. And it's many times worse for you.

    I'm not hating on him by the way, but right is right and STEVE JOBS ACCOMPLISHED VERY LITTLE. and he is severely over estimated. Get real.

  • :(

  • Steve Jobs "The Speech"

    Available For Download On AMAZON

  • death makes me sad too

  • i feel so sad :(

  • Tim Cook is absolutely the man.

    Also, I really hope they let Apple build their new headquarters. It sounds like it will be a great place to work.

  • Tim Cook's next.

  • Steve Jobs, as amazing as he is, is no where close to Thomas Edison.

    Edison was an inventor,

    Jobs was a marketer and salesperson.

    The technology jobs "created" was already in existence for many years, he merely re-packaged it and did a great job on selling his stuff.

  • @hero123213xdzero Steve Jobs was no Thomas Edison thats for sure, he said something that many new innovators and marketing people should look into, you cannot create a technology and force it onto people, look at what people need and work the technology around it. He may not have invented thousand of products like Edison did or anyone else for that matter, but the one thing that Jobs was and can't be taken away from him, is that he was a visionary, and a good one at that.

  • 10 Years America Had Steve Jobs, Bob Hope, And Johnny Cash. Now We Have No Jobs, No Hope, And No Cash.

  • @LenzBTL hahahahaha oh my god your so right lolololol

  • iPhone4S = iPhone 4 Satan

  • illuminati killed steve

  • There is no good reason why the FOSS community should be defending a corporate CEO like Steve Jobs. FOSS is itself evidence that the community can do better than Jobs' proprietary model. This community's deference to Jobs is the effect of decades of corporate propaganda, and it's being spouted by people who really should know better. Hopefully, the Occupy Wall Street movement is starting to teach us that we don't need these guys. They are not innovators; they are parasites.

  • i cant beleave he died :(

  • great man

  • Steve Jobs was a brilliant, intelligent person. But his accomplishments are being blown the fuck out of proportion. Bill Gates>Jobs in terms of impacting the computer world. In terms of user interface its the other way around. 

  • all this bullshit about looking at jobs and what he's done. and how he's changed the world

    the FACT, the fucking FACT of the matter is that he has made NO significant breakthrough in the computer tech world.

    The absolute most significant thing they have ever made is the drag-and-drop function, and that was well before most people even learned off steve jobs.

    don't pull the man to greater heights than he was. And don't smear the name of Edison by comparing them.

  • @lusteraliaszero Please just set your fucked up self on fire and die. And make sure someone disposes of the ashes too cause no one even needs to see your fucked up ashes never mind your fucked up living body.

  • @iBoy2G Hey, face reality, or don't. But don't take it out on me that you are a delusional dumb ass.

  • @lusteraliaszero u know HE DIED why are you here if u are gonna to hate just stop doing it

  • @Sunshine9522 you're right, everyone ascends to an uncriticisable godhood when they die, I forgot.

  • @lusteraliaszero u know ur sarcasim is worst at hiding and he developed many helping things

  • @Sunshine9522 No, he didn't really invent all that much, actually he made no original breakthroughs at all.

  • @lusteraliaszero And you definitely haven't.

  • @jleack I have made just as much as him. and so have you.

  • when Disney died Walt Disnet studio went to shit. Apple is on the down fall.

  • @chuggyman1 but it's been shit for a decade.

  • @lusteraliaszero revolutionizing the phone, creating the ipod, making the ipad which has had dozens of other companies trying to copy it but fail horribly and making quality simple to use bug free computers is shit?

  • @chuggyman1 Revolutionizing the phone HOW? he just did things that had already been done and his model happened to be exceedingly popular.

    And the ipod WAS a copy of several MP3s that were already out.

  • @lusteraliaszero stop with your ignorance. if you weren't such a know-at-all asshole you'd realize that the original iPhone and while it lacked features changed cell phones. The number of touch screen phones that came out after iphone was huge, now nearly every single smart phone is a touch screen with apps and is set up and looks very simular to the iphone. People copy success, Apple set the bar for design and quality in their iphone and other companies still can't match it.

  • @chuggyman1 ur right man but as we know now samsung did surpass the apple :/

  • steve jobs blows

  • stop bitching people, work make money buy iApples and be happy... and by the way how did he get the liver so fast while most people have to wait three years ......

  • @YouTabacco "work make money buy iApples and be happy...". Sure, I will be very happy buying a lot of crap products from apple.

    All apple products blows

  • someone sent this to me in response to my question regarding the placement of the "i" in front of each device:

    "The "i" represents a change in human physiological behavior... One from that of “community” and “group thinking” to that of the all important “me”.

    iWant iNeed iMust iDont Care!! The selfish "i" "

    this is a different very interesting twist on things if this is indeed true.

    anyone care to expound on it? what are your thoughts? thanks

  • the 3 apples that changed the world:

    Adam and Eve's apple

    Newton's Apple

    Steve Jobs Apple

  • steve jobs went off to a good place. The I-cloud.

  • Steve Jobs didn't die, he's just in heaven teaching god how to use the new I-Pad.

  • Steve jobs was Anderson Silva of technology

  • steve jobs tribute poem by an Indian fan...

    watch?v=zcV9o6JsDLA

  • Steve Jobs is dead bwahahahahhahha!! why should i feel bad for a billionaire?? LOL

    If Jobs was a regular Joe he would have been dead already years ago!!

    How much money did he buy his new liver for??? A very small percentage of people that need a liver transplant ever get it but he was able to get one???? Shocker there!!! Meanwhile the average joe that needed one died because this rich asshole got it instead!!

    Good i am happy the cancer finally got him!!!

  • @ThothWisdom are you retarded? go away piece of shit!

  • @izquemia

    Sorry if the truth hurts you!! Political correctness is not my thing!! It is truth! What has Jobs done for you???What invented some gadgets that somebody else would have invented any way???? Did he find a cure for Aids??? He was a rich asshole plain and simple !!

  • @ThothWisdom And you are obviously just an asshole, and a poor trite one at that. A bit jealous of Jobs are you? Try to match what he did or shut up. He was a legend and you are a nobody. Did you find a cure for anything? What have your invented? Grow up.

  • @ThothWisdom Jobs didn't buy his liver, but he was able to go around the country and register where the waiting list is shorter. The waiting list in Tenn is just 48 days, compared to the national average of 306 days, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing. You should feel bad for any person who dies regardless of how much money they have. Jobs also met with CA Gov Schwarzenegger to work on making it easier to get a transplant and to increase the number of donors.

  • Hi, Can someone tell me the origin/reasoning for the use of the apple fruit as an icon, the bite out of the apple, and the "i" preceding the name of each device? thanks

  • @AnAmericanIdle Steve Jobs came up with the name in early 1976. At the time, he was often visiting and working on a small farm friends of his owned. He was working at an apple orchard, and also Apple came before Atari in the phone book. They say it might have also been named for Apple records. Rob Janoff created the logo, and put a bite in it so that people wouldn't think it was a tomato. It's also like Isaac Newton's apple, and the bite can be a "byte" and the apple is the fruit of knowledge.

  • @AnAmericanIdle Oh yeah, Apple declared the 'i' in iMac to stand for "Internet"; it also represented the product's focus as a personal device ('i' for "individual"). And then clearly copied by many companies.

  • youtube.com/watch?v=AeG9SHQCNT­I

  • Steve Jobs is an ARAB!!!

  • @kentau123 No, his dad was Syrian but his mom was of Swiss and German ancestry. And what does it matter anyway? What nationality are YOU? Why should anyone care?

  • iDied

  • Steve Jobs resisted his doctors' recommendations for evidence-based medical intervention for nine months instead consuming a special alternative medicine diet to thwart the disease. There are alternatives fir pancreatic cancer.

  • he was an arab

  • Did you check out the STEVE JOBS QUOTES AND TRIVIA APP on App Store?

    It's a fine way of remembering the great man Steve Jobs!!! :)

    Check it out for your iOS device! ;-)

  • Steve Jobs isn't dead. He's merely become part of the Apple mainframe. Now every time you download something from Apple, you're downloading Steve.

  • RIP Steve Jobs.

  • Hey,

    did you get your STEVE JOBS QUOTES AND TRIVIA APP??? :-)

    It's a nice way of keeping a memory of Steve Jobs in your iOS device!

    Go and check it out ;)

  • We should all be fighting as hard as we can to find a cure for cancer. You can help right now by running the world community grid program on your computer. Google world community grid and be sure to join team endthedisease.

  • RIP Steve Jobs.

    I made a video about his famous turtlenecks, here: watch?v=6K6KKWPwD_o

    <3

  • Hey!!

    Do you have your STEVE JOBS QUOTES AND TRIVIA APP on your iPhone???

    Take a memory of this great MAN with you on your iOS device!

    On top 25 Entertainment on USA App Store!!!

    Great Honour to Steve Jobs!

  • Watch The Best Steve Jobs Tribute on Youtube Here..THE BEST!! LIKE THIS SO EVERYONE CAN SEE IT!! ;{ >> watch?v=5-sV8tQPNxU

  • If Steve had gotten his cancer treated using medicine instead of a vegetarian diet he would have had a 90% survival rate. How could someone so brilliant be so stupid about his own life.

  • @MrsToni30 Not necesarily, such diet is different to a regular vegetarian diet & has been sucessful in some cases. Common medicine such as radiation therapy will actually kill you faster, something doctors won't tell you because that'll just ruin the business [RT is supposed to kill cancerous cells but it also kills white cells which you actually need] Cancer is a business of billions $ there won't be a cure soon but believe me, medicine will cure the once thought impossible except cancer.

  • LONG LIVE THE LEGEND!!!

  • It's pronounced Jobs not Jaaaaaahbs.

  • Rest in Peace Mr Steve jobs

  • Hey did you get your Steve Jobs Quotes and Trivia APP for iPhone????

    It's a nice homage to this great man!!!

    :-)

  • @2289rainbowmount4467 no, FUCK YOU! BE RESPECTFUL!

  • @2289rainbowmount4467 Fuck off and lick your arse man

  • @2289rainbowmount4467 LEAVE THIS COUNTRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @crashyboi SHUT UP BITCH , ARE YOU GAY ?, LEAVE APPLE TAKE A BANANA,WOW

  • steve jobs....rest in peace. Thanks a lot for all the "magic". We will miss u

  • Steve Jobs:Apple of our i.

  • STEVE JOBS WE LOVE YOU AND THANK YOU ! YOU MAY NOW REST IN PEACE

  • Thank you, Steve, for changing the world and making it a better place! You will be forever loved and forever missed! RIP Steve Jobs 1955 - 2011

  • RIP Steven Jobs <3

  • RIP Steve.

  • ☆•*´¨`*Mourning Steve Jobs, 哀悼 史蒂夫 乔布斯.•*´¨`*☆

  • R.I.P 

  • It is unfortunate that he has prematurely met the iCasket. RIP.

  • iRip Steve Jobs. iHope you went to iHeaven with the iAngels. Youll be dearly iMissed. Thanks for the iPhone.

  • R.I.P Steve Jobs May he Rest in peace The World Wont Be The Same

  • a man with a vision was kind to share it with us . a part of him will be with all of us . literally because we use his stuff everyday

  • REST IN PEACE . steve jobs you will be missed

  • riposare in pace Steve Jobs

  • Hey!!! Check out the Steve Jobs Quotes and Trivia App!!! It's for your iPhone! :-)

  • And here comes Apples downfall... Steve made it peak, and you know which way the tabke turn after the peak... R.I.P. Steve, hope they will carry on your vision in the right path

  • Roses are red, violets are blue,

    Steve Jobs is dead - Windows " wohoo!! "

  • I have been working an Apple for 23 years and I haven't got AIDS. Can't believe some of the moronic comments being posted. Steve Jobs will still still be impacting our lives for years to come, even after his demise. Unlike some of the narrow minded individuals who, if they successfully carry out a bowel movement once a day then managed to clean their backsides unaided, this in their minds is a major achievement.

  • FUCK STEVE JOBS dude was a raging faggot and died from aids!!! all apple users have AIDS

  • @IsItOnTab he died of cancer. nice way of trolling. idiot.

  • @IsItOnTab your a full asshole i hope you get but fucked to death by a kinky carrot

  • @IsItOnTab kid

  • @IsItOnTab I didn't know cancer was aids. Is it contagious now also?

  • @flybikes29 AIDS isn't cancer...

  • @TerryFilming my point exactly. He said Steve died from AIDS when he actually died from cancer.

  • @flybikes29 lol, I know.

    God, I hate little trolls like him.

  • @mergudo yes

  • @mergudo yep

  • @mergudo ur jim

  • RIP February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011

  • R.I.P Steve Jobs a great man he will be forever missed

  • RIP Steve Jobs, you greedy bastard.

  • @guyboy625 motherfucker.

  • thank you steve jobs , may your soul rest in peace

  • RiP

  • iRIP.

  • Three apples have changed the world. The first one seduced Eve. The second one fell on Newton's head and the third one was given to the world half bitten by Steve Jobs.

  • "One apple a day keeps a Doctor away"

    Turns out Jobs didn't eat apples everyday.

  • If you REALLY LOVE STEVE JOBS SIGH UP HERE :

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  • Technology is screwing over civilization,...thumbs up if you agree

  • I knew it! He ran out of NZT. Only someone who had access to 100% of all of his brain could come up with these gadgets. R.I.P

  • buying iphone 4s as a tribute to steve jobs " thumbs up " if u will

  • @bibos304 dont be a fag