{"id":12,"date":"2011-10-06T23:30:27","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T23:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rhyse.net\/blog\/?p=12"},"modified":"2014-09-27T11:26:20","modified_gmt":"2014-09-27T11:26:20","slug":"farewell-steve-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhyse.net\/blog\/?p=12","title":{"rendered":"Farewell, Steve Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rhyse.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/tumblr_lsmb6umBY31qfr8fso1_500.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-14\" title=\"Steve Jobs\" src=\"http:\/\/rhyse.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/tumblr_lsmb6umBY31qfr8fso1_500-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"Steve Jobs\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rhyse.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/tumblr_lsmb6umBY31qfr8fso1_500-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rhyse.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/tumblr_lsmb6umBY31qfr8fso1_500.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve always insisted that one man does not a team make, but it is difficult to put into perspective that one man <em>can <\/em>make a huge difference.<\/p>\n<p>As the head of Apple, Steve Jobs was part of a team that revolutionised the way we live. Were it not for the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Macintosh\" target=\"_blank\">Macintosh<\/a>, would computers look and behave the way they do today?\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NeXT\" target=\"_blank\">NeXT<\/a>\u00a0provided the first platform for the World Wide Web and this incredible world we live in. The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IPod\" target=\"_blank\">iPod<\/a>, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IMac\" target=\"_blank\">iMac<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IPhone\" target=\"_blank\">iPhone<\/a>\u00a0have revolutionised their own industries and have been total game changers.<\/p>\n<p>Jobs was also responsible for buying out the animated division of Lucasfilm in 1986 from George Lucas and helped them change direction. That division was spun off into a business called\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pixar\" target=\"_blank\">Pixar Animation Studios<\/a>. When Pixar was bought out by Disney in 2006, he became Disney\u2019s largest shareholder.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for everything Steve. If one man can change the world, then I guess we all can.<\/p>\n<p>My thoughts go out to Steve\u2019s wife Laurene, his children, his colleagues and friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve always insisted that one man does not a team make, but it is difficult to put into perspective that one man can make a huge difference. As the head of Apple, Steve Jobs was part of a team that revolutionised the way we live. Were it not for the\u00a0Macintosh, would computers look and behave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[11,13,12,77],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-farewell","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-r-i-p","tag-steve-jobs","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhyse.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhyse.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhyse.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhyse.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhyse.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rhyse.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17,"href":"https:\/\/rhyse.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhyse.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhyse.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhyse.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}