Technology RIP Steve Jobs

[Pittsey]

I don't believe it is a hoax as the BBC don't usually report until they are sure.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-15193922

Former chief executive and co-founder of US techonlogy giant Apple Steve Jobs has died, the company says. He was 56.
"Steve's brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The world is immeasurably better because of Steve," Apple said.
Jobs announced he was suffering from pancreatic cancer in 2004.
His death came a day after Apple unveiled the new iPhone 4S at its headquarters in California.

 

[S O F I]

http://www.apple.com/

 

[Casey]

RIP Steve.

 

[masta247]

Yes, RIP. He basically co-made Apple what it is right now, and was a great manager.

 

[Flipmo]

You can say whatever you want about Apple products, but you can't hate on how he turned the company around.

To be honest, I'm surprised Wozniak has outlived Jobs...

 

[Rukas]

You can say whatever you want about Apple products, but you cant deny the fact that they have changed everything and paved the way for your device of choice.

 

[Jokerman]

Steve Jobs's 317 patents, in a browseable graphic:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/08/24/technology/steve-jobs-patents.html

 

[Kobe]

Woke up to news today morning. I feel like it's only yesterday he announced he was stepping down from his position at Apple Inc.

RIP

 

[vg4030]

^^ Yeah I was pretty shocked when I woke up.

Dont forget that he co founded Pixar too...

 

[S O F I]

Siri

Georgian for cock. no rooster.

 

[Casey]

Despite being firmly against Apple's business practices on a moral level, I've always had a healthy amount of respect for Steve as an inventor and visionary who did everything in his power to get to where he wanted. I'll probably pick up that autobiography of him that's coming out, if there's a Kindle version. Which there most likely will be.

 

[Da_Funk]

^What about the simple book version?

 

[Casey]

^What about the simple book version?

I only buy e-books these days. Saves trees, space and allows me to carry unlimited reading material when I'm on tour etc and space is limited.

 

[S O F I]

^What about the simple book version?

of course it's coming out. That's still the de facto method of publishing.

 

[Flipmo]

I buy real books and put them on shelves. Bitches love books on shelves.

 

[S O F I]

When it comes to the relationship between Amazon, the publishing world, and I, they would probably regret this Kindle and e-book stuff. Once I get my hands on a Kindle in the near future, hello torrents and .mobi files or whatever format the Kindle uses. Before the Kindle, I bought physical books on Amazon. After I get my Kindle, I will most likely download them for free like other people I know who have Kindles.

 

[dilla]

I never tear up on "celebrity" deaths, but Jobs' was far from it. I read the news, let it soak in.... A day later, I was reading his quotes and saw my Google Reader flooded with his face. I had to put my laptop aside as I teared up a bit. I had kinda braced for something like this when those pictures of him surfaced a month or two ago. I didn't want to believe it and I was certain his whereabouts were kept secret and that TMZ hadn't gotten a real picture of him. Turns out that was the last time we'd see him in public. Because even his final days (his biographer said he knew Jobs was deteriorating fast a week before he passed) were kept secret. We knew he was struggling, but didn't know at what stage he was at. Which is why to us, the death was sudden, but to his closest friends and family, it was gradual.

WWDC and all those keynotes/conferences will no longer be the same. Even the announcement of the 4S had some sentimental value. But I didn't think he would pass right after that. His absence was obvious, but I felt it was one of those things where he went AWOL for a month or two and then came back, smiling, with his new baby in his hands with good news.

There were some things that were bad about his "dictatorship" and I hope those change a bit. Enough that they're solely positive and less-restrictive than in the past. But I hope the superficial look of Apple and its products remain the same, aka, they still keep Jobs traits in play.

 

[S O F I]

An NYT article I read mentioned that most of his friends and acquaintances knew his health was deteriorating and they started calling him and coming over in the last few weeks to say their last words, basically. But due to his bad health and the sheer number of them, Jobs and his wife had told a lot of people that they couldn't see him and to even stop calling the house because one in particular was persistent (probably saltynuts). The tone of the article is pretty straight forward. Jobs had a very limited amount of time on Earth and he was selective in who could share that with him. I feel like I'm telling an Anthony Jeselnik joke but I'm not. Point is, the people who were deprived of seeing him must have felt like shit. But for some reason, whether it's what I've read about him, or his arrogance/humor in his 2005 Stanford address, I don't think Jobs gave one fuck about those people who he chose not to see and their feelings. I don't know about you, but if a person I held in high regard and thought the feeling was mutual didn't think I was important enough in his/her life to see him/her for a few minutes, I would feel both shitty and mad at the same time. Now, I don't fault him for that, it's his limited time and he has every right to choose how to spend it. In fact, Steve was a of master of making choices he wanted. However, it kind of him makes him seem like a dick.

 

[Casey]

An NYT article I read mentioned that most of his friends and acquaintances knew his health was deteriorating and they started calling him and coming over in the last few weeks to say their last words, basically. But due to his bad health and the sheer number of them, Jobs and his wife had told a lot of people that they couldn't see him and to even stop calling the house because one in particular was persistent (probably saltynuts). The tone of the article is pretty straight forward. Jobs had a very limited amount of time on Earth and he was selective in who could share that with him. I feel like I'm telling an Anthony Jeselnik joke but I'm not. Point is, the people who were deprived of seeing him must have felt like shit. But for some reason, whether it's what I've read about him, or his arrogance/humor in his 2005 Stanford address, I don't think Jobs gave one fuck about those people who he chose not to see and their feelings. I don't know about you, but if a person I held in high regard and thought the feeling was mutual didn't think I was important enough in his/her life to see him/her for a few minutes, I would feel both shitty and mad at the same time. Now, I don't fault him for that, it's his limited time and he has every right to choose how to spend it. In fact, Steve was a of master of making choices he wanted. However, it kind of him makes him seem like a dick.

It's interesting you say that because I read an article yesterday where the biographer said Steve allowed him to write the book essentially because he felt he hadn't been there enough for his children as he was always working. So rather than spending more time with them, he continues to work and allows himself to be interviewed for a book that will inevitably be almost all about... his work. I kinda thought that made him seem like a dick as well.

Sidenote, Antony Jeselnik is painfully unfunny.

 

[Flipmo]

This is outside of the Apple Store here downtown.