Positive Legacy
"What he wanted to do in his life was create tools that allowed people to work at the highest levels, and I think he did that. And so that legacy is beautiful..." - Laurene Powell Jobs.
"The Apple enterprise itself was his greatest lasting legacy..." - Ronald Wayne, Co-Founder of Apple.
"Apple will replace AT&T in the Dow -- an exclusive club of 30 stocks that also includes tech giants Microsoft, Intel, and Cisco as well as brand-name consumer firms Walmart, Coca-Cola and Disney" - CNN Money (March 6th, 2015). |
iTunes drastically altered the music industry. It combined the power of computers and music together and enabled artists to display their works easily.
iMessage gave everyone an opportunity to connect with their loved ones without the worry of a text message limit on their cellular plan. The personal computing industry has drastically changed the world. It allows people to access the internet and be more productive.
Jobs famously recited this verse by Bob Dylan when presenting the Macintosh at the Apple shareholder event.
The innovation of different available fonts in the computing industry enabled people to show off their personality with different styles of text in their writing. This is demonstrated throughout our website. The personal computer enabled several different industries to work together, making a product better than any of the individual markets, such as processors for laptops. Steve Jobs pioneered to use Macs in higher education. "In 1984, when the Mac was released, that became the first really user friendly microcomputer in higher ed, and it proliferated really quickly, and so in many areas in higher education, in disciplines and departments that were not particularly well suited for using the IBM PC, and other computers, found that they could use the Mac very easily because the interface was friendly as the first mouse driven graphical interface with a point click environment" - Marty Ringle Interview, Chief Information Officer at Reed College. |
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Steve Jobs was able to revolutionize the picture-taking industry by melding it with the mobile device industry to create beautiful and crisp pictures that will produce memories everyone can enjoy.
"... the snapshot camera of today..." - Famed photographer Annie Leibovitz. The iPhone 6 and 6 Plus bested other industry-leading smartphones with its camera. "Much like the iPhone 6 of the same family, the iPhone 6 Plus with a larger touch screen was also a model of smartphone that exceeded the score of 80 for the first time during the ratings by DxOMark" - thedigitalcamera.net. "I think he brought the sense of aesthetics and design, that has been overlooked and now everybody who builds products is a lot more likely to spend a lot more time on design, aesthetics, kind of getting the details right" - Nolan Bushnell, Founder of Atari .
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Click to see the end of a commercial for the Macintosh and Steve Jobs announcing the Macintosh at an Apple shareholder event in 1984.
(Source: https://www.youtube.com) |