The Conversation: Steve Jobs' Greatest Contribution
As we near the first anniversary of the visionary's death, we ask you one simple question
- Smithsonian.com, August 01, 2012, Subscribe
In the September 2012 Style & Design issue, our cover story by biographer Walter Isaacson looks back on Steve Jobs as a designer, citing Jobs as saying, "We have a chance to communicate something through the design of the objects themselves."
Finding a business model for selling music
Brian Wolly, @brianwolly
The iPhone. He didn't build it alone but his vision has forever changed the world.
Ryan Reed, @ryanreed
Making bald sexy.
Perrin Doniger, @PerrinD
Not the most important for all,but for me? He helped the movie, "Toy Story" happen.
Kelly Smith, @ksmittyyyy
ipad
claire
chic black turtlenecks
Javiva
For me since I do not use a cell phone it's the new iPad. I'm 70 and i love my iPad .
Patricia Schlag
Allowing me to realize I didn't know what I wanted... but he did.
Todd Stowell, @toddstowell
Creating the computer for the rest of us.
Megan Gambino, @megan_gambino
iPad! Changed mobile computing and made the tablet viable.
EPCOT Explorer, @EPCOTExplorer
Steve Jobs Greatest Contribution was to loan name Apple from Beatles, graphical UI (icons and mouse) from Xerox and so on, and so on.
murphy
Seamless integration of hardware and software.
Steve Basile, @xebrawerx
Creating for me a wonderful world with my Iphone,Ipad and my Mac.He is a genius
Claude Dufour, @clsurgdufour
Giving consumers a chance to understand the beauty of technology.
Janet Pearson, @JCPRetired
The Mac SE. It changed my life forever.
Ruth Elizabeth Sansom, @cecreatives
Judging from the other comments here... the reality distortion field!
Steve Smith
Must be..uhm..Nope. Can't think of anything of value this man has provided the world
JMT, @jtangvik
Thinking outside the box and believing in himself
Diantha Harris, @lifepnet
Taking GUI out PARC labs and puttingnit on a PC (Mac).
Mike eliasz-solomon, @Stanczyk_
iTunes. It was the cash cow that allowed Apple to thrive, made the iPod successful, and gave Apple the opportunity to develop inventions like the iPhone and iPad.
David Thornley
Making grey warm and cool at the same time
Naomi Taylor, @taylor_naomie
inspiring creativity in others, even when they did not see it in themselves
Peter Higgins, @fromawayme
Selling the MAC OS to those of us who wanted and needed to get their work done. One pixel at a time and then, of course, Pixar Power!
Deborah McLaughlin
He made all the gadgets on "Star Trek" a reality, sans the taser.
Kevin Scott Collins, @Kevinscollins
Profits for Apple
Gordon Bennett
Steve Jobs gave us machines we could turn on and be enjoying in 15 minutes. He realized function follows form. Imagine: Drag a file to a garbage can when you're done with the file. Genious!
Beverly Wright Coleman
The iOS operating system changed the world in mobile computing.
Sejin Kim
