Agreed. If Ed Meese can get it, the bar, at least then, is clearly pretty low.
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Steve Jobs to Be Posthumously Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom
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Not to mention a vidcam in every pocket has advanced police accountability and social justice. As seen in Messers Floyd’s and Arbury’s cases.
Would you rather be an Droid Slave? 😱
Remember he freed us from the Great Evil IBM Empire.
That’s a terrible strawman.
Without expensive devices there would be no affordable devices.
What’s cutting edge today is entry level table stakes tomorrow.
This is all because expensive devices and continuous improvement and constant competition exists.
Should be awarded to the engineering founder of Apple Steve Wozniak rather than the salesman Steve Jobs.
Really.
For all his brilliance, Woz would not have ended up rich or running HP. He needed Steve to help him shine.
That said, Woz deserves one too because without him, Steve wouldn’t have had the same trajectory either.
It’s a medal of honor, not the proclamation of a cause for Sainthood.
LoL, Woz while great, wanted to give all his designs away for free.
I’m sure they would have both made contributions to society, but the magic we know started because the two complimented each other. Absent that, everything Apple we take for granted wouldn’t have existed.
Are you saying my Palm Pilot is not a tablet? he may have kicked off another tablet trend, but not the tablet trend.
Medals of this kind are not for those who did the act. Usually, the act itself is the reward for them. Medals - or awards - are to highlight the awarded action(s) as a guide for other people that might follow in discerning what is worthy and what is not.
The presidential medal notwithstanding, you’re absolutely right. I believe you can make a big argument that tech (particularly smartphones and social media) has had a very, very negative impact on our society and lives as a whole.
Having lived through the Palm Pilot age (and owning a Compaq iPaq myself), there is a big difference between a handheld “palm” device and certainly what was the first iPad. Apple commercialized the tablet in a way that no other company had yet to do (selling millions of units). The original iPhone was more the replacement for the Palm Pilots of the day and the iPad became something that was in between a smart phone and a laptop, which really didn’t exist anywhere else.
Apple came out with the Newton (1993) before the Palm Pilot (1997)
( still have my Handspring PDA too )
It’s a blessing and a curse. I was too young when the iPhone first came out but I was aware what the world was like before smartphones.
I disagree. the palm treo was actually the replacement for the palm pilots and added phone power long before iPhone.
I wrote on my palm pilot with a stylus, it was a tablet, and the first tablet trend.
Steve wasn't a perfect person but I certainly think he fits this description. I can't imagine a world where he never started Apple.
What are the odds that Biden will look out over the audience and say, "Is Steve here today? Come on up Steve."
That was offset in later years by parking his expensive car in handicap spots. Jobs lived the full spectrum: clueless hippy to rich dick. Along the way he drove some talented people to create good things and some crap things.
The thing is, the very name Palm Pilot was a palm held device. If you equate that size with a tablet, then every iPhone and smartphone in general are also tablets. That’s not what most people would consider a tablet - the name suggests something bigger than a handheld device, which is exactly what it is.
Yes, I owned a Treo, maybe two of them now that I think about it. The iPaq was finger or stylus input, or keyboard and it was definitely no tablet (even as it had a larger screen than the original Treo).