Giving Thanks for Steve Jobs Returning to Apple, Willing iPhone Into Existence
Techcrunch’s Michael Arrington takes the US Thanksgiving holiday to give sweet blog love to Apple CEO Steve Jobs, and everything he’s done for Apple — and for consumers:
What would our world look like without him? We’d likely still be in mobile phone hell. Chances are we still wouldn’t have a decent browsing experience on the phone, and we certainly wouldn’t be enjoying third party apps like Pandora or Skype on whatever clunker the carriers handed us. Even if you use an Android, Palm Pre or newer Blackberry today, you must thank Apple for pushing open the doors to mobile freedom. Think back to the phone you had in 2006, and then tell me you don’t love Apple for the iPhone alone (yes, I’ve moved on, but the iPhone was the genesis).
He manages to sneak in a few swipes at MobileMe (which now works pretty well), and the MacBook Air (which, since the second generation, has been magnificent), and still calls Apple irritating and sorta evil, but from Arrington’s fascinating lawyer-days working on the Apple/NeXT deal, to his admiration for their sexy new iMacs and iTablets to be, he gives the CEO of the Decade a lot of credit and is hard pressed to imagine an Apple, or a technology sector, without him.
We are too. For Apple II, Mac, Pixar, iPod, iTunes, Apple Retail, and of course, the iPhone, we join Arrington in saying — thanks Steve!
November 26th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
Oh yeah, here is the love of Apple creating everything even though it was already done before. Pandora, Skype? Yeah, it’s been done before Apple got to it. -_-’
November 26th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
Like old cliche, if a tree falls and nobody hears it… Apple made a lot of great stuff go mainstream.
November 26th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
I am thankful to steve and all of his employees! Without them I would not have reconnected with so many of my old freinds that I have lost contact with over the years. So, thank you Steve. And a special Thank you to Apple employees for putting up with him.
November 26th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
@Anony
I criticize Apple as much (if not more) than anybody around here, but Apple deserves every last drop of credit they get for shaking up the mobile phone landscape. Yes, much of what the original iPhone offered had been done before, but, as Rene points out, they deserve some kudos for their particular assembly, and getting it into the hands of customers on a large scale.
More importantly, Apple deserves credit for standing firm in the face of intense carrier pressure, even as it cost them a potentially lucrative deal with their first choice, Verizon. Not many companies would have (or could have) stood firm in the face of that pressure, and the success of the iPhone and the App Store model has irrevocably titled the smartphone market towards devices and away from strict carrier control. That has been good for all of us.
Yes, as long as certain brain-dead Apple policies are in place, I think other phones and app markets are better designed to take this model to the next level, but it would be silly not to give credit where credit is due for getting the whole ball rolling — and that credit goes to Apple.
November 26th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
Good to here he’s getting props but we already knew that, either way good for him.
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November 26th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
I think Michael Arrington has progressed way beyond fanboyism and gone direct to cult-worship.
I makes me wonder what he will write on Christmas eve.
Too much koolaid.
November 26th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
It’s just electronics, guys. Let’s not try to make it seem more important than it is.
Anyway, there are certainly enough faults with Apples products to knock Jobs down from the God status this clown is trying to elevate him to.
November 26th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
They need to give us an update , then I’ll say thAnks
November 26th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
Without Apple, the world wouldn’t have as much white hardware or ad backgrounds.
December 7th, 2009 at 11:51 am
this whole iphonee thinggyy its reall gayy *** licker
February 11th, 2010 at 9:47 pm
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