Linked List: October 6, 2011

Thursday, 6 October 2011

Drance on SJ 

Matt Drance:

Edison. Ford. Disney. Jobs.

An era has ended, and we now sit to reflect on our good fortune for having lived in a time when a true giant walked the Earth.

“SJ” was how so many of my friends at Apple referred to Jobs in the third person. Steve was the man. SJ was The Eye, the presence.

Devour’s Steve Collection 

If you want to watch Jobs, you’ll do no better than Devour’s tribute page. The best, the pinnacle, I say, is the January 2007 introduction of the original iPhone. That’s Jobs, and Apple, at their very best. The greatest single leap forward.

Siracusa 

John Siracusa:

When I was a kid, I had a picture of the original Macintosh team on my bedroom wall. It showed a hundred or so Apple employees standing in front of an office building. Some people on the left were holding a cloth banner with the “Picasso” Macintosh logo on it. A man sitting on the ground on the right cradled a baby. Front and center, crouching with an original Macintosh computer perched on his knee was Steve Jobs, wearing jeans, a long-sleeve black shirt, and gray sneakers.

Two Minutes With Steve 

Michael Sippey:

It started a week before the keynote, when we arrived at 1 Infinite Loop with our app and two minute demo script. We thought we were ready. We weren’t. They worked with us non-stop that week to refine our app, shape our story and polish our script. We rehearsed hundreds and hundreds of times (“Better. Now do it again,” was a constant refrain), and presented to dozens of different people inside Apple.

Including Steve.

Making a Dent in the Universe 

Jason Snell:

He was the face of the company I’ve covered for coming up on 20 years. His return to Apple saved it from oblivion. And then we got the world-changing products.

‘Last American Who Knew What the Fuck He Was Doing Dies’ 

The Onion:

“We haven’t just lost a great innovator, leader, and businessman, we’ve literally lost the only person in this country who actually had his shit together and knew what the hell was going on,” a statement from President Barack Obama read in part.

‘All of It’ 

Panic says goodbye.

Steve Jobs Narrates ‘The Crazy Ones’ 

Heart-breaking. Awe-inspiring.

Wired’s Tribute Page 

Nicely done.