Charlie Rose

Cjsarich  01/19/2013 09:07 PM Report

Are you kidding? A Steve Jobs tribute that cam be viewed on an iPad? Some tribute.

tabs  10/14/2011 05:45 AM Report

Watching the show memorializing Steve Jobs was frustrating to watch, because nine tenths of the show was about the visceral world or this idea, that product or that deal. What was hard to gather was the measure of the man, or the essence of who he was. Many people when faced with a grave illness come to understand that life is bittersweet in the sense that we only have a short time in the in the sun to enjoy the great beauty of the world. So this is not as extraordinary as it sounds..

The key to Steve Jobs came in the very simple telling of seeing him taking walks. Jobs was a very introspective man given to figuring things out, putting the pieces of the puzzle together with an attention to detail. The second thing that was striking and is the most important key to his success was that Jobs was concerned with the interface between the user and the technology in accomplishing a task. Jobs would imagine what and how he would like that interface to be as a user, with an eye on making it ever simpler and seamless for the user. His great dilemma was the limitations of the technology available and in trying to advance it to get to that perfect interface. Thus it is no surprise that he would know what the technology available was capable of doing.

One can bet that the last several years of Jobs life was spent in developing a pipeline of products or guideline of products going into a future without his presence. This must have been the driving force of not only pushing the envelope in the present but imagining the future. The downside to that endeavor would be what events or limitations in technology might arise and effect product development without his guidance. In that he has to have relied on his assembled team and that was where his efforts must have been directed in trying to instill in them the same kind of fearless vision and thinking.

The prognosis for Apple is that it will run like a scalded dog for the next half a dozen years or so. However once the attrition of life starts to disassemble the team that Jobs personally assembled Apple will be faced with either renewing or finding a new vision. This is where Steve Jobs is virtually irreplaceable at Apple, because how do you replace a guy with that much vision.. The bright side as Jobs alluded to was that there is another fast gun working in some garage somewhere out there to carry on.

Saultxyca  10/12/2011 03:58 PM Report

Steve Jobs did not create the computer, just like Herbert von Karajan and Leonard Bernstein did not create the violin or recording equipment — they were great maestros. Steve Jobs removed barriers and mystique from IT, making it possible, even cool, for millions and millions of "grunts" to use high technology like a genius. That's big.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  10/11/2011 09:24 PM Report

I have never owned an Apple product and really can not remember ever using one. I could not justify the cost (high) vs the benefit (above average). Sony, on the other hand, is more sensitive to cost vs benefit and I love Sony products.

Pixar is another story entirely. The benefits out way the cost exponentially.

I also love the Pixar story: bought for $10 million then sold for $7.6 BILLION! Eat it Disney.

vdoddapa  10/11/2011 09:45 AM Report

@doodee

so u think Steve invented Internet... gud god.. how ignorant are these apple fans. Steve jobs along with Steve Woz are a part of computers evolution. They are credited an important milestone or rather 2. The rest is marketing and packaging...

lizrich151  10/10/2011 04:22 PM Report

What a sloppy production job this program was. You couldn't take the time to post the names and dates of the interview segments you cobbled together for this show? That was too hard? Unbelievable. Shame on you.

doodee  10/10/2011 04:14 PM Report

So what are you trying to say, Mant?. You don't believe he invented the internet? Still think Al Gore invented it, huh?... Al Gore's gonna go to hell for starting that rumor.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  10/10/2011 12:17 PM Report

Charlie,

STEVE JOBS: not just a tech God . . .

MUSLIM FATHER? yes, his biological father

BUDDHIST HIMSELF? yes

DRESSED LIKE JESUS? yes, at the first Apple Halloween party

USES 666? yes, $666.66 is the price of the first Apple 1

TRIP TO INDIA FOR ENLIGHTENMENT? yes, 1974

LOVED LSD? yes, one of the most important things he said he ever did

DINED AT A HARE KRISHNA TEMPLE? yes, weekly when he was poor

POOR PERSONAL HYGIENE AND SMELLED BAD? yes, enough to get moved to the night shift at Atari

DENIED A LOVE CHILD? yes, at first and she lived on welfare

DROPPED OUT OF COLLEGE? yes

SIZE 14 SHOE? oh baby, oh baby

SWALLOWED ANT POISON? yes, as a child and went to the ER

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs

http://teqnolog.wordpress.com/2010/06/14/100-things-you-didnt-know-about-apple-and-steve-jobs/

Again, THE BEST TRIBUTE:

Stephen Colbert's 3:43 minute tribute to Steve Jobs made me cry--literally.

And if you know Colbert's family history with death it was even more poignant.

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/399182/october-06-2011/tribute-to-steve-jobs

Colbert is amazing--from laughter to tears in two seconds.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  10/10/2011 12:13 PM Report

WOW Charlie, everyone seemed to have an opinion about Steve Jobs. He is certainly was and is a topic of conversation.

REMant  10/10/2011 11:51 AM Report

I heard so much hyperbole about Jobs last week, I didn't really want to listen to more here. He was no Edison. It was all done in government labs or elsewhere. As Isaacson remarked, he used the inventions of others and packaged them for a status-anxious elite at inflated prices, and with a conceit exceeding even Microsoft's he thumbed his nose at the rest of the computing community by making them incompatible with almost everything else, ironic in that his preoccupation was to make computers easier to use. It was this proprietary bent which almost killed the company. Implementing the mouse and graphical interface was what sold the first Apple machines, compelling M$ to bring out Windows, but eventually he had to bow to Intel and M$. The iPod was what saved the day, tho he didn't invent the MP3 format or flash memory, nor the idea of a personal music player, iTunes put many record stores and radio stations out of business, and may yet kill off music piracy. Notebooks had been around a very long time before he came out with one, tho he was unique in making the backlight shine through the cover. He didn't invent the wireless phone or wireless Internet access, but he married them in the iPhone. And Internet appliances had been around quite awhile before he resurrected them in the iPad last year.

However, when I think of the electronics industry overall, Apple is involved in very little of it. I think it will go the way of Sony eventually, unable to command a premium, unable to direct the technology or retailers, and would have even if Jobs were alive, if he had continued in the direction he laid out. And I would take issue with the notion that the cos' software leads in any area.

Altho he identified with the Democrats, Jobs is said to have not been much of a philanthropist, abusive of his employees, as well as, of course, manufacturing overseas.