Steve Jobs Honored On New 2026 US Coin Celebrating Innovation (nerds.xyz)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/10/16/1436203/steve-jobs-honored-on-new-2026-us-coin-celebrating-innovation
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> The United States Mint is honoring Steve Jobs and Apple with [2]a new coin for 2026 . Part of the American Innovation $1 Coin Program, California's entry depicts a young Jobs seated before rolling northern California hills, accompanied by the words "Make Something Wonderful." The reflective design, created by Elana Hagler and sculpted by Phebe Hemphill, captures how Jobs's surroundings and vision shaped Apple's mission to make technology feel intuitive and human.
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> The 2026 series also celebrates Dr. Norman Borlaug for Iowa, the Cray-1 supercomputer for Wisconsin, and mobile refrigeration for Minnesota. The obverse of all coins features the Statue of Liberty and a special Liberty Bell mark commemorating the nation's Semiquincentennial. The Steve Jobs coin stands out as one of the few times the U.S. Mint has recognized a modern tech innovator, and some collectors are already calling it one of the most exciting releases in years.
[1] https://slashdot.org/~BrianFagioli
[2] https://nerds.xyz/2025/10/steve-jobs-coin-2026-us-mint/
$1 coin (Score:2)
I haven't seen one of these in 30+ years.
Re: $1 coin (Score:2)
Laundromats sometimes have them in the bill changer.
Slop (Score:1)
These coins are fucking awful slop. Evey the Iowa one has Norman Borlaug as "The Father of the Green Revolution," a modern bullshit term that I'm sure had nothing to do with what he contributed.
[1]https://www.coinnews.net/2025/... [coinnews.net]
What a waste of metal.
[1] https://www.coinnews.net/2025/03/18/2026-iowa-american-innovation-1-coin-designs-featuring-dr-norman-borlaug-recommended/
I guess it's fitting for these times (Score:3, Insightful)
I guess a coin for being a nasty cunt is fitting for these times.
"Steve Jobs initially denied paternity of his daughter, Lisa Brennan-Jobs, for several years, even after a court-ordered DNA test confirmed he was her father."
Not to mention being the worst person in the world to work for ( until Musk came along ).
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The coin should show his Mercedes in a handicapped spot.
Yeah, maybe, but... (Score:2)
Apple is a fashion company, producing pretty, disposable products and expecting fans to buy new ones regularly.
They have no respect for backward compatibility, changing processors and operating systems frequently.
They oppose right to repair and use every dirty trick in the book to make their devices unrepairable.
Even when states pass right to repair laws, they are masters at malicious compliance.
I do admit that mixed in with all of the evil crap, there is a bit of innovation, but on balance, they are evil.
Make it a squircle! (Score:2)
Please! Is there any rule that the coin has to be round?
We have dodecagonal coins here, but I'm not aware of anyone doing a squircle coin before.
If I had one of those Jobs coins... (Score:2)
To pay a fitting tribute to the man, I'd drop the coin into a dish of acid, but then instead of saving it while there was plenty of time left, I'd leave it to be slowly eaten away while occasionally dropping in healing herbs and drops of organic fruit juices, and then only try to rescue it once it was far too late
Jobs was amazing (Score:2)
As a marketer. He repackaged other people's tech and sold the hell out of it. As such, it's totally appropriate to honor him in this age of disinformation.
Collect the whole set! (Score:2)
Forthcoming coins will include Larry Ellison, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Larry Page.
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Really should be honoring Woz Instead! (Score:3, Informative)
They really should be honoring Steve Wozniak instead. He's the one that did the work, did the innovation, made a floppy disk drive work for a price lower than anyone else could imagine by innovating. He's the one who did the designs and made it all possible. But Jobs was more visible and knew how to capture headlines.
Seriously, Jobs and Apple would have been NOTHING without Woz doing the kind of stuff he can do.
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I don't know given our current administration I think it's highly on brand that the guy who stole pretty much everything except for the idea of making computers look nice in a dorm gets honored while the guy who did all the real work gets ignored.
Real gilded age stuff there.
I'm especially bitter having found out just how great the Apple II GS actually is and how jobs buried it. Seriously go look up the port of Rastan to it. The GS could outperform an Amiga.
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I kind of get why it was buried, it came out a full two and a half years after the Macintosh was released, and basically three and a half years after the Lisa, which was itself arguably the same development track as the later Macintosh. It was also given a skinned GUI that looked a lot like the Macintosh Finder. There had also been several product iterations beyond the original Lisa and Macintosh that added external hard disk support and other useful features.
The only places I've seen Apple IIGS computers
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> We saw the same sort of thing when Jobs returned to Apple and brought the legacy of NeXT with him, but because computer hardware had managed to become a lot more commoditized, general purpose, it was not as much a hardware issue as a software/OS issue. They maintained a virtual machine environment to run classic System within OSX to again allow those with investments in software for System to be able to continue using it (and to allow it to be used when there wasn't a version written for OSX specifically yet) but they certainly weren't looking to perpetuate the original Macintosh line once the models running OSX had supplanted them.
Everyone always forgets about the Carbon API.
There was a way for several years that app developers could target Carbon for their MacOS 9.x apps, and they would magically get OS X features when OS X became a shipping thing. It was an absolutely brilliant transition strategy - I believe when they introduced Carbon, they said "all future life on MacOS will be based on Carbon" which wasn't exactly true when they launched the OS X native "Cocoa" libraries, but they pulled off one of the easiest transitions betw
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I had a GS. For the time, it was truly fantastic. I still have it buried in storage somewhere, but the sound chip quit working a while back.
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The [1]Apple II GS came out in September 1986 [wikipedia.org].
Steve Jobs was [2]fired from Apple in 1985 [wikipedia.org].
You don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_IIGS
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs#1985%E2%80%931997
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You're correct that Woz is brilliant, and did brilliant things, but it's completely incorrect to discount what Jobs did. For example, Apple floundered when Jobs left, and came roaring back when he returned, and Woz never worked on the iPhone, which was revolutionary. Jobs had an understanding of what people actually wanted, and had to work hard to get the people at Apple to actually do it. There's ample stories of Jobs insisting over and over again that the engineering team work harder to get the origina
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> You're correct that Woz is brilliant, and did brilliant things, but it's completely incorrect to discount what Jobs did.
But what did he do that actually counts as innovation? What new did he bring into the world?
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Apple Computer Corp
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I agree completely. Woz did the work, but without Jobs, there wouldn't have been an Apple II+ in my living room when I was in second grade. And that completely changed my life.
I want two coins.
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Bingo, really the both of them should be on the coin. It was the partnership that made it magic neither of them would have made it as far without the other.
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Oh, yeah... two sides of the same coin. It would have been perfect.
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> I want two coins.
Did you mean to write: "I want a two-dollar coin " with Woz on it?
( [1]Context [hackaday.com])
[1] https://hackaday.com/2012/08/03/woz-prints-and-spend-his-own-2-bills/
Re:Really should be honoring Woz Instead! (Score:4, Informative)
Woz isn't eligible:
> (E) PROHIBITION ON CERTAIN REPRESENTATIONS.รข"No
> head and shoulders portrait or bust of any person and
> no portrait of a living person may be included in the
> design of any coin issued under this subsection.
Woz is happily not dead yet.
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We can take care of that.
Re: Really should be honoring Woz Instead! (Score:2)
The problem is Woz is a living person! Since the American Revolution, the USA has not put the image of a living person on currency. This was part of our rebellion against the British, who continue to put reigning monarchs on the money. So around the time of the tricentennial you can push for a Woz coin.