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Apple Computer Inc the Apple II the Apple //e the Apple //c the Apple //GS the Mac Mac OS the Mac II the NeXT Cube NeXTSTEP

Apple Computer Inc the Apple II the Apple //e the Apple //c the Apple //GS the Mac Mac OS the Mac II the NeXT Cube NeXTSTEP OS NeXTSTEP API Objective-C Cocoa Mac OS X the iMac the Titanium PowerBook the iPod iTunes the iTunes Music Store the iPod Touch the iPhone the iPad iOS the App Store These things have been utterly inspirational and important to me from the time I first discovered computers for myself at age seven, to today. Without them I would not be who I am today, doing what I'm doing today. Thanks Steve. (And if you're wondering what Steve Jobs had to do with the Apple //c, //GS, and Mac II, he was the one who brought in Frog Design to design Apple hardware throughout the 80s, and their work was marvelous, just as Jony Ive's work is marvelous today)

steve19 15y ago
I would add the Macbook Air to the list.
- timerickson 15y ago
  And all iPod variants.
shadowsun7 15y ago
And that's just Apple. Lest we forget, he changed the music industry, the film industry, the telecommunications industry (and maybe the gaming industry, see Nintendo's struggle vs the iPod and the iPhone as premier mobile gaming devices, but I think this is still up in the air) Steve is truly, truly an American legend.
- jamesgeck0 15y ago
  He's definitely changed the gaming industry. Don't look at the platform, look at the developers. The nature of the iOS platform is giving indie developers some serious visibility that many might not otherwise have.
elmindreda 15y ago
Objective-C wasn't created at NeXT.
- foobarbazoo 15y ago
  Lame. The language is almost trivial; what matters are the frameworks that go with it. Those were created at NeXT, and Steve Jobs was a big reason that happened. Those frameworks (with all the updates that have been made over the years) are what run on Mac OS X and iOS today.
  - stcredzero 15y ago
    The language is almost trivial; what matters are the frameworks that go with it. Again, it's the execution! There are certainly better languages out there. However, Apple manages the Objective-C "ecosystem" in much the same way that it manages the iTunes "ecosystem" -- with a relatively high level of quality and usability. (Yes, programmers bitch about stuff in iOS, but we always do in any language/ecosystem. What matters is how wisely the maintainers respond.)

steve19 15y ago

I would add the Macbook Air to the list.

timerickson 15y ago
And all iPod variants.

shadowsun7 15y ago

And that's just Apple. Lest we forget, he changed the music industry, the film industry, the telecommunications industry (and maybe the gaming industry, see Nintendo's struggle vs the iPod and the iPhone as premier mobile gaming devices, but I think this is still up in the air) Steve is truly, truly an American legend.

jamesgeck0 15y ago
He's definitely changed the gaming industry. Don't look at the platform, look at the developers. The nature of the iOS platform is giving indie developers some serious visibility that many might not otherwise have.

elmindreda 15y ago

Objective-C wasn't created at NeXT.

foobarbazoo 15y ago
Lame. The language is almost trivial; what matters are the frameworks that go with it. Those were created at NeXT, and Steve Jobs was a big reason that happened. Those frameworks (with all the updates that have been made over the years) are what run on Mac OS X and iOS today.
- stcredzero 15y ago
  The language is almost trivial; what matters are the frameworks that go with it. Again, it's the execution! There are certainly better languages out there. However, Apple manages the Objective-C "ecosystem" in much the same way that it manages the iTunes "ecosystem" -- with a relatively high level of quality and usability. (Yes, programmers bitch about stuff in iOS, but we always do in any language/ecosystem. What matters is how wisely the maintainers respond.)