RIP Steve Jobs, The Man Behind iPhone, iPod and iPad

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Everyone who paid even passing attention to Apple knew Steve Jobs‘s days were numbered. He had been in poor health for years, thanks to pancreatic cancer, and went on medical leave last January before handing over the CEO reins to Tim Cook on Aug. 24.

Still, even though I and others in and around his Palo Alto home had been hearing in recent months that he was sicker than most people knew, it’s a shock to hear he died today. It’s especially jarring just a day after the announcement of a new iPhone that at an event where he was conspicuously absent.

There’s already a memorial on Apple’s Web site, and Apple’s board just released an appropriately elegant statement:

We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today.

Steve’s brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The world is immeasurably better because of Steve.

His greatest love was for his wife, Laurene, and his family. Our hearts go out to them and to all who were touched by his extraordinary gifts.

As someone who mostly wrote Apple from the periphery, I’ll leave the deep insights to others who tracked his career more closely. But his contributions to the computer industry, especially in design and marketing, influenced virtually every technology company in Silicon Valley and many other companies beyond. As I wrote last August when he stepped down:

Jobs’ enduring contribution has been less the way he talked about or positioned Apple products than the intrinsic appeal of the products themselves. Critics sometimes write him off as a showman or a mere designer (as if industrial design is a frill). But Apple’s position atop the world of business, not just technology, with an unsurpassed line of groundbreaking products from the Mac and the iPod to the iPhone and the iPad, proves otherwise. Apple is a living example of the prime importance of actually making great, physical products with a utility and flair that compels millions of people to wait hours or even days in line to get them.

Still, you can’t deny that Jobs was also a master marketer. Both in his not-to-be-missed appearances introducing Apple products at Macworld conferences and other events and in the advertising he helped create, he managed over 30-plus years to prove again and again how lame just about every other technology company is at telling customers why they should buy their products.

And so an era has ended.

It would be dishonest to represent Jobs as a perfect leader, since no human being can be and it’s no secret Jobs could be difficult. But in a recent interview I did several weeks ago with Joel Peterson, chairman of JetBlue and a consulting professor at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, about effective management, he said this about Jobs:

In the end, Apple delights customers, it enriches its shareholders and its employees, it provides opportunities for growth and development. If you add up on the balance sheet all the things that it does, the fact that it has a person who at times behaves as a jerk to me is not all that troubling.

I know several people who work directly for him, and they will say he is really difficult. But on the other hand, he is really competent, he is really honest–all of those things that go to the core of being an empowering leader.

In later years, Jobs seemed to become, if not mellow–never mellow!–more wise, and not just about computers or business. And so I’ll leave you with a speech he made to Stanford graduates in 2005. I keep a copy of it on my bedside table for those late nights when weariness makes it hard to remember what matters most:


Sumber : hxxp://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthof/2011/10/05/rip-steve-jobs-master-marketer-and-unique-human-being/

 

VIVAnews - Apple Inc. mengumumkan Rabu waktu setempat bahwa pendiri perusahaan teknologi terkemuka asal AS itu, Steve Jobs, telah meninggal dunia. Dia wafat setelah bertahun-tahun berjuang mengatasi kanker. Dia wafat di usia 56 tahun.

Jobs mengundurkan diri sebagai Kepala Eksekutif Korporat Apple pada Agustus lalu setelah mengatakan dia tidak bisa lagi secara rutin mengelola perusahaannya. Posisi dia digantikan oleh Tim Cook sedangkan Jobs berstatus sebagai Chairman Apple.

Jobs dikenal sebagai pengusahan bertangan emas. Menurut stasiun berita CNN, Jobs mendirikan Apple pada saat dia baru berusia 21 tahun bersama dengan Steve Wozniak dan Mike Markulla. Mereka merintis usaha Apple dengan merakit sejumlah produk komputer desktop.

Pada 1985, Jobs tersingkir dari Apple setelah tidak bisa mempertahankan posisinya di dewan direksi. Dia lalu mendirikan perusahaan sendiri, NeXt.

Jobs akhirnya kembali ke Apple pada 1997 dan menyelamatkan perusahaan itu dari ancaman kebangkrutan.

Dia bahkan berhasil menjadikan Apple sebagai salah satu perusahaan terkemuka di dunia dengan menghasilkan sejumlah produk inovatif, seperti iPhone, Macbook, dan kini iPad.

Sebelum kembali ke Apple, dia juga sukses mendirikan perusahaan sinema kartun, Pixar Studio.

"Visi dan kepemimpinan luar biasa yang ditunjukkan Steve Jobs telah menyelamatkan Apple dan menuntunnya sebagai perusahaan teknologi yang paling inovatif," kata Art Levinson, Chairman dari Genentech, mewakili Dewan Direksi Apple, seperti dikutip Chicago Tribune.

"Steve telah membuat sumbangan yang luar biasa bagi kesuksesan Apple. Dia telah menginspirasi para staf Apple dan membentuk tim eksekutif yang luar biasa," lanjut Levinson.

Cemerlang membawa perusahaannya menjadi yang terdepan, Jobs bermasalah dengan kesehatannya yang buruk. Dia pernah cuti selama dua tahun sebagai CEO Apple karena berkonsentrasi mengatasi kanker pankreas. Itulah sebabnya pada Agustus lalu dia memilih pensiun dan mendukung Tim Cook sebagai CEO baru.

 

CEO terbaik sepanjang massa di dunia IT
Selamat Jalan Steve

 

inalillahi waina ilaihi rojiun. saya turut berduka atas meninggalnya. om steve jobs.

 

selamat jalan steve

 

Salah satu CEO terbaik sepanjang masa..semoga damai menyertainya..
"Jobs was born in San Francisco on February 24, 1955, to Joanne Schieble and Abdulfattah Jandali and adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs. The couple would later move with their son to San Mateo County."
_http://www.forbes.com/sites/briancaulfield/2011/10/05/apple-co-founder-steve-jobs-dies-at-56/
ternyata bapak kandungnya namanya abdulfattah..

 

Rest In Peace Steve...

 

inalillahi waina ilaihi rojiun

met jalan pakdhe

 

Selamat Jalan Om

 

Pasti banyak yang ujicoba tembak kw, steve jobs is dead

 

Selamat jalan om, anda selalu jadi inspirasi saya.

 

Turut berduka cita

 

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-Purwanto-
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om steve jobs RIP, CEO terbaik ... tadi ngeliat tampilan web Apple , lagi berduka... selamat jalan om ...

 

hikz, kasian bgt ya masbro.. turut berduka cita buat Steve Jobs.. bener2 cerdas nih orang.. salut bgt

 

pemimpin it yang selalu menginspirasi saya...
turuk berduka

 

Steve Jobs...
selamat jalan masbro....

Anda telah merevolusi dunia IT dengan visi anda..
Salut

 

RIP Steve Jobs,

 

Wah salah satu maestro dunia komputer

 

heis budhism, so rest in hell, wallahu alam