http://www.tmz.com/2011/09/09/steve-jobs-apple-ex-ceo-health-whats-trending-cbs-tweet-death-rumor-accident-apology-dying-dead-resignswas-dead/
He's been dead for a month. Apple used Jobs dead body for hits... SMH
@pvponline: Guys this is our John Lennon.
uh wow
is there a date for when he died? like, not to sound too cynical, but did Apple purposefully withhold this information until the day after its announcements?
RIP Steve Jobs. Closest thing we had to Tony Stark.
ashermoses Asher Moses
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https://twitter.com/#!/pattonoswalt/status/121736662022766592QuoteRIP Steve Jobs. Closest thing we had to Tony Stark.
lol no
11.31am: Customers at the Apple Store in Sydney have been left stunned by news of Jobs's death.
"I'm a big Apple fan- everything I have is Apple. It's definitely a sad and somber day for the whole company. But I think Jobsie and his legacy will live on forever. He built such an amazing company. If you mention the word apple people will only think of two things, a computer and the fruit. To be able to generate a business like that is amazing. I think maybe the share price will drop a little bit- but loyal customers will still be there so it wont take long for them to rebound and I think theyll probably go from strength to strength." - Dan Sommer, 33
"Obviously, as we saw with yesterday's product launch- the products won't be as good," - Michael Christofides, 30
11.24am: Danny Hart, manager of the Apple Store, Sydney, said they were planning to pay their own respects to Steve Jobs.
"There will be a link on our website so people can send personal messages. Obviously it is a very difficult time for us and that's all I can say."
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/steve-jobs-dead-apple-confirms-former-ceo-loses-fight-20111006-1lag8.html#ixzz1ZxT5IkWe
Isn't it ironic that Jobs died with this much unemployment?
I don't know whether to feel bad or disgusted by the possibility of a "conspiracy."
RIP Steve.
In other news, his official biography will be delayed again for a couple of months to fit the 200-page final chapter. That author has to be one of the luckiest guys on the planet.
someone i know on twitter just seriously asked if people were headed out to apple stores, smh
I don't know whether to feel bad or disgusted by the possibility of a "conspiracy."
RIP Steve.
In other news, his official biography will be delayed again for a couple of months to fit the 200-page final chapter. That author has to be one of the luckiest guys on the planet.
ThatKevinSmith KevinSmith
Our parents had JFK, we had Steve Jobs. Edison gave us electricity, Jobs gave us the Jetsons in real life. We lost an icon today. Mourn him.
QuoteThatKevinSmith KevinSmith
Our parents had JFK, we had Steve Jobs. Edison gave us electricity, Jobs gave us the Jetsons in real life. We lost an icon today. Mourn him.
ffs
Steve was important n all but msnbc needs to give me a few seconds of other things that happened today
I came home and checked Twitter and saw it was down. Makes sense.
I came home and checked Twitter and saw it was down. Makes sense.
home? can't you check twitter on your iphone?
Steve was important n all but msnbc needs to give me a few seconds of other things that happened today
thats what you get for watching network news you fucking sea cucumber
I guess this is a foreshadowing of the day Miyamoto passes
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I guess this is a foreshadowing of the day Miyamoto passes
god, I hope Miyamoto outlives me so I dont have to deal with that shit :(
There's an iPhone vigil in SF tonight :lol
Good christ people get a grip
Posting from a PC fyi
There's an iPhone vigil in SF tonight :lol
Good christ people get a grip
Gunpei Yokoi
AlecBaldwin Alec Baldwin
Sad about Steve Jobs. On par with Henry Ford, Carnegie and Edison.
This is quite sensible, although Edison is a bridge too far. This is what he was really good at: Business and marketing, with a bit of invention on the side.
People are basically attributing all of 20th/21st century culture to him. Artists, writers, movie-makers all gushing about how Jobs made everything they do possible. Nonsense. It would all have happened without him, with the likely exception of Pixar (which is a huge accomplishment of course). It's not like Photoshop can't run on PC, people. Or that mp3 players would never have become popular without iPods. What, we'd all still be listening to tape Walkmans or Minidisc players?
RIP
and here comes the hyperboleQuote@pvponline: Guys this is our John Lennon.
Imagine if Jobs had died in say 2003 instead of 2011. How would he be remembered differently?
more importantly, would it have delayed the hipster explosion of the late 00s?
Probably just showing off that you own Apple stuff. So no different than any other day in SF.LOL.
Privileged youth mourn the death of gadget maker
seriously though, comparing him to JFK is beyond the pale
Because Apple never authorized a secret Cuban invasion?Privileged youth mourn the death of gadget maker
seriously though, comparing him to JFK is beyond the pale
well for the record, jobs did a better job running apple than jfk did being president
AlecBaldwin Alec Baldwin
Sad about Steve Jobs. On par with Henry Ford, Carnegie and Edison.
This is quite sensible, although Edison is a bridge too far. This is what he was really good at: Business and marketing, with a bit of invention on the side.
People are basically attributing all of 20th/21st century culture to him. Artists, writers, movie-makers all gushing about how Jobs made everything they do possible. Nonsense. It would all have happened without him, with the likely exception of Pixar (which is a huge accomplishment of course). It's not like Photoshop can't run on PC, people. Or that mp3 players would never have become popular without iPods. What, we'd all still be listening to tape Walkmans or Minidisc players?
I knew once I got this on my phone after I woke up from my nap that I would be avoiding facebook, twitter, and tech blogs for days. I love Steve Jobs and I do think he was a modern genius in innovation, invention, and business, but I just can't take people publicly RIP-ing him just so they can. I'm sad, quite sad actually, but I can't deal with what some people are probably saying.
I'm weak
I'm weak
Fred Shuttlesworth died today too. Can we talk about him?
It's sad that he died.
That's all I got.
It's sad that he died.
That's all I got.
Is that all? how disrespectful of you.
when did people get so uppity
Nah. Blame Twitter/FB. Everyone has a soapbox now.when did people get so uppity
when a black man became president
AlecBaldwin Alec Baldwin
Sad about Steve Jobs. On par with Henry Ford, Carnegie and Edison.
This is quite sensible, although Edison is a bridge too far. This is what he was really good at: Business and marketing, with a bit of invention on the side.
People are basically attributing all of 20th/21st century culture to him. Artists, writers, movie-makers all gushing about how Jobs made everything they do possible. Nonsense. It would all have happened without him, with the likely exception of Pixar (which is a huge accomplishment of course). It's not like Photoshop can't run on PC, people. Or that mp3 players would never have become popular without iPods. What, we'd all still be listening to tape Walkmans or Minidisc players?
The Onion already shared a joke about a dead jobs on facebook- the hate comments are worth it. Its the Onion! come on people!
BREAKING: Panicking Apple Board Of Directors Attempt To Restart Steve Jobs
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History will prove that the real hero is the man on the right.
People comparing him to great inventors and visionaries is really stretching it.
1 Wal-Mart Stores 421,849 16,389
2 Royal Dutch Shell 378,152 20,127
3 Exxon Mobil 354,674 30,460
4 BP 308,928 -3,719
5 Sinopec Group 273,422 7,629
6 China National Petroleum 240,192 14,367
7 State Grid 226,294 4,556
8 Toyota Motor 221,760 4,766
9 Japan Post Holdings 203,958 4,891
10 Chevron 196,337 19,024
It could be worse I suppose - it could be J.K. Rowling
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:lol
I think it's kind of sad that a CEO has this strong of a cult of personality. I don't want to see any of these fucknuts bitching and griping about the iron vice grip corporations have on our nuts here in the US. I'm sure in a twist of irony, there are quite a few Occupy Wall Street losers weeping over his death.
As someone who works professionally with apple computers, and has done so for the latest 10 years, I'm hoping this will be the beginning of an end to the shitty personality cult part of Apple which I never subscribed to and always resented being associated with.
As someone who works professionally with apple computers, and has done so for the latest 10 years, I'm hoping this will be the beginning of an end to the shitty personality cult part of Apple which I never subscribed to and always resented being associated with.
Hyoushi -are you high right now? :lol
Well, the death of the Messiah tends to accentuate the cultish aspects, not diminish them, doesn't it? See JFK, John Lennon, Jim Morrison, blah blah blah
Every time Tim Cook screws up, it'll be 'Jobs would never have done that...', 'If only Steve had lived...'
"Obviously, as we saw with yesterday's product launch- the products won't be as good," - Michael Christofides, 30
As someone who works professionally with apple computers, and has done so for the latest 10 years, I'm hoping this will be the beginning of an end to the shitty personality cult part of Apple which I never subscribed to and always resented being associated with.He died with Apple at its height and he died young. The basically perfect mix of becoming deified by a rabid fanbase. If anything the personality cult of Apple is going to get a lot more crazy and more fanboyish.
:lol brutal
People are acting like if some artist, freedom fighter or inventor died. Steve Jobs was just selling shit. People need to get some sense of fucking perspective, its disgusting.
On the Manhattan side of the bridge, pointing at cops -- countless smartphones and tablets, many of them Apple branded, taping the scene or tweeting what was happening. These are protests in the world Steve Jobs has made -- more transparent than anyone could have predicted.
People are acting like if some artist, freedom fighter or inventor died. Steve Jobs was just selling shit. People need to get some sense of fucking perspective, its disgusting.
Well, all things equal he was REALLY important in the tech sector- and at the ground floor of the entire thing. I think he should be recognized for that- HOWEVER, three hour blocks of people talking about him last night were ridiculous
I personally think you're disgusting, Lager.
I personally think you're disgusting, Lager.:lol brutal
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Fixed.
What did I do?
Is it wrong to give counterweight to this madness?
Do I tell you how I feel about you? You got some personal vendetta or what?
I'm already getting tired of that commercial where John Hodgman brags about how he's a PC and is alive.
http://www.theonion.com/articles/steve-jobs-dead,26266/QuoteI'm already getting tired of that commercial where John Hodgman brags about how he's a PC and is alive.
davidscottjaffe davidscottjaffe
Hoping I can make time to go to the Apple Store today. Feels stupid to say but I kinda just want to pay my respects...a buy some stuff:)...
People are acting like if some artist, freedom fighter or inventor died. Steve Jobs was just selling shit. People need to get some sense of fucking perspective, its disgusting.artists don't sell shit? it's on the same level as an artist/semi-inventor.
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Those half-eaten apples will go bad in mere minutes. SMH.
:lolhttp://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=13487419&postcount=2552
You think people took a day off today?
I think of all the shit going on- its apple devices with IMAGES of a candle on them that make me cringe
(http://i.imgur.com/ZrOZd.png):lol :lol :lol :lol
not 24 hours ago cormac was with me
now he is on the side of the apple-polishers :'(
groo got to him too
not 24 hours ago cormac was with me
now he is on the side of the apple-polishers :'(
groo got to him too
I have nuanced views, which are difficult to pigeonhole. This is awesome because it allows me to be a dick to everybody :rock
(Real talk, btw: No-one gave a rat's ass about Jobs before iPod, no-one I consider human anyway)
We thought mac's were only used for computer classes since it was the only type of computer we had in schools pre-high school, mostly for typing and computer classes.IIRC that was a huge amount of free/discounted computers Apple gave away during Jobs' exile in a desperate hope to establish a future market share with all the kids who grew up on HyperStudio (the future of information technology!) and KidPix. And they hung around for years because of the cost to replace them until Microsoft, Dell and some others started similar programs. (Plus the importance of teaching Microsoft Office became a priority.)
It's fun to realize that most of the people who were gathered around the lone Apple II, debating whether we should ford the river and laughing at the tombstones, while everyone else ran around and drew pictures shockingly wound up being the people playing Quake, Unreal Tournament and such in high school. In my case I've got a good number of them on my Steam list today. Sometimes nothing changes. :lol
School gaming was amazing. And it is so true it was always more fun at school than at home. At school all of us used to play this Worms like game that but was with tanks and had basic graphics and we were OBSESSED with it. I remember I found a download for it at home online after much searching (early days of having the internet at home for me, probably '97) and was so excited but...it just for some reason was not as much fun playing it at home.
YES THAT WAS IT. I forgot what it was called ages ago.School gaming was amazing. And it is so true it was always more fun at school than at home. At school all of us used to play this Worms like game that but was with tanks and had basic graphics and we were OBSESSED with it. I remember I found a download for it at home online after much searching (early days of having the internet at home for me, probably '97) and was so excited but...it just for some reason was not as much fun playing it at home.
Scorched Earth. What a fun game.
Someone posted a pic of a vigil at an Apple Store on FB and I commented "Wait, this is for the marketer who sold you your phone?"
Whoooboy some people be hatin' on me tonight
Apple II was actually the first computer I used. They had them in elementary school and we'd play games for education and shit.
:bow Oregon Trail :bow2
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I remember on the Macs they had this fake desktop thing where you could only access like ten programs and nothing else, but we found out this keystroke that brought up the admin password prompt and the password was the name of the school (for the teachers and staff obviously) and you got full access to the entire computer from it.
Was totally like WarGames.
RIP to someone who has had way more influence on modern computing than Jobs, but not nearly the level of recognition:
http://boingboing.net/2011/10/12/dennis-ritchie-1941-2011-computer-scientist-unix-co-creator-c-co-inventor.html (http://boingboing.net/2011/10/12/dennis-ritchie-1941-2011-computer-scientist-unix-co-creator-c-co-inventor.html)
"I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong," Jobs said. "I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this."
http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/stories/032411jobsa
Total dickface.
Jobs saved money and traveled to India with a college friend searching for philosophical enlightenment and returned home with a shaved head and wearing traditional Indian clothing ready to resume working for Atari creating a circuit board for the game Breakout. Atari made an offer of $100 for each chip reduced in the Atari machine so Jobs knowing little about circuit boards made a deal with the knowledgeable Wozniak to split the money between them. Wozniak amazingly reduced the chip count by 50, which ended up being impossible to reproduce on a production line. Jobs then told Wozniak Atari only gave him $700 rather than the $5000 he got and gave Wozniak $350.
http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/stories/032411jobsa
Total dickface.