Comment by thought_alarm | Hacker News Reader

Comment by thought_alarm | Hacker News Reader

    Apple Computer Inc
    the Apple II
    the Apple //e
    the Apple //c
    the Apple //GS
    the Mac
    Mac OS
    the Mac II
    the NeXT Cube
    NeXTSTEP OS
    NeXTSTEP API
    Objective-C
    Cocoa
    Mac OS X
    the iMac
    the Titanium PowerBook
    the iPod
    iTunes
    the iTunes Music Store
    the iPod Touch
    the iPhone
    the iPad
    iOS
    the App Store

These things have been utterly inspirational and important to me from the time I first discovered computers for myself at age seven, to today. Without them I would not be who I am today, doing what I'm doing today.

Thanks Steve.

(And if you're wondering what Steve Jobs had to do with the Apple //c, //GS, and Mac II, he was the one who brought in Frog Design to design Apple hardware throughout the 80s, and their work was marvelous, just as Jony Ive's work is marvelous today)

And that's just Apple. Lest we forget, he changed the music industry, the film industry, the telecommunications industry (and maybe the gaming industry, see Nintendo's struggle vs the iPod and the iPhone as premier mobile gaming devices, but I think this is still up in the air)

Steve is truly, truly an American legend.

He's definitely changed the gaming industry. Don't look at the platform, look at the developers. The nature of the iOS platform is giving indie developers some serious visibility that many might not otherwise have.

I would add the Macbook Air to the list.

And all iPod variants.

Objective-C wasn't created at NeXT.

Lame. The language is almost trivial; what matters are the frameworks that go with it. Those were created at NeXT, and Steve Jobs was a big reason that happened.

Those frameworks (with all the updates that have been made over the years) are what run on Mac OS X and iOS today.

The language is almost trivial; what matters are the frameworks that go with it.

Again, it's the execution! There are certainly better languages out there. However, Apple manages the Objective-C "ecosystem" in much the same way that it manages the iTunes "ecosystem" -- with a relatively high level of quality and usability. (Yes, programmers bitch about stuff in iOS, but we always do in any language/ecosystem. What matters is how wisely the maintainers respond.)

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