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Steve Jobs Dead at 56

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I am wondering if Google is going to do something with their home page to make a tribute to him...
 
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Ockham said:
I'm sorry to see such an innovator leave a world that desperately needs him. Steve you changed the world and I'm sad to see you leave it so soon. RIP.
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Great sentiments, Ockham.

I bought my first Apple product in 1994 when I purchased the greatest personal computer ever made, the Mac. I was very fortunate to have once worked for an all-Macintosh dealer. Desktop Publishing was becoming very big in those days and it was fantastic to work for a dealer who was leading the way with the Mac. It was a privilege to work with Apple products. Unfortunately, I never got to meet Steve Jobs as he was not with the company at that time, but I did get to attend MacWorld in San Francisco in 1991. Nothing like spending a week with some of the most innovative and motivated people. While his name may not mean anything to you, I got to meet Guy Kawasaki who was the Macintosh Evangelist. MSNBC or CNBC has shown a program that documents Apple and Guy is featured in the program.

The loss of Steve leaves a big huge in the world. He will be missed... greatly.
 
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Do you short APPLE stock with this news?
 
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SheWolf said:
I am wondering if Google is going to do something with their home page to make a tribute to him...
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Maybe, maybe not.

Google is in bed with Android model phones, competitors with the iPhone... so it wouldn't surprise me if they didn't.

(it wouldn't surprise me if they did either).
 
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SheWolf said:
I am wondering if Google is going to do something with their home page to make a tribute to him...
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I hadn't thought about this. But surely it will, don't you think?
 
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Here is one of the greatest commercials ever made and it was Apple!

 
"Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. Stay hungry. Stay foolish." -Steve Jobs 1955-2011

Words to live by. RIP.
 
jobs' death means just as much as his life: nothing. In a nutshell, his life was all image, no substance

TO anyone who actually knows about computers and what's always been available in the market, jobs was never an innovator. He was just exceptionally good at creating the impression that he was by copying existing working technologies and putting the "Apple" or "i" prefix before it and then popularizing his version of it to the point where the dumbed down public believed he founded the technology.

Apple did not invent the GUI desktop environment, or the mouse, did not invent the portable digital music player or even create the best one on the market at the time of the iPod, and did not invent the touch pad cell phone or PC.

And, FYI (to those iCult members here), Apple did not invent death.

What jobs did do was create a cult of technically unsophisticated users who worshiped jobs solely because they were convinced something was better simply because it has the Apple name on it.

I have never owned an Apple product and am damn proud of it :) ! In fact, I owned several products years before Apple "invented" them. To the iCult, this makes no sense, obviously. But to technically adept users like me, who actually know stuff, it provided another joyous reason to laugh at everyone else who wasted their money buying an "i."

To top it off, jobs was a total jerk to everyone who worked with him. He intimidated his employees for no reason, made all his technology closed and proprietary (i. e. ALAC, AppleTalk) solely to monopolize market share. He also exploited several children in overseas factories to assemble his junk so he could maximize profits.

In conclusion, jobs was one of those who simply deserved to die. Good riddance. I won't be attending the iFuneral .
 
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LesGovt said:
Here is one of the greatest commercials ever made and it was Apple!

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. . .one of the greatest pieces of propoganda ever made.
 
solletica said:
jobs' death means just as much as his life: nothing. In a nutshell, his life was all image, no substance

TO anyone who actually knows about computers and what's always been available in the market, jobs was never an innovator. He was just exceptionally good at creating the impression that he was by copying existing working technologies and putting the "Apple" or "i" prefix before it and then popularizing his version of it to the point where the dumbed down public believed he founded the technology.

Apple did not invent the GUI desktop environment, or the mouse, did not invent the portable digital music player or even create the best one on the market at the time of the iPod, and did not invent the touch pad cell phone or PC.

And, FYI (to those iCult members here), Apple did not invent death.

What jobs did do was create a cult of technically unsophisticated users who worshiped jobs solely because they were convinced something was better simply because it has the Apple name on it.

I have never owned an Apple product and am damn proud of it :) ! In fact, I owned several products years before Apple "invented" them. To the iCult, this makes no sense, obviously. But to technically adept users like me, who actually know stuff, it provided another joyous reason to laugh at everyone else who wasted their money buying an "i."

To top it off, jobs was a total jerk to everyone who worked with him. He intimidated his employees for no reason, made all his technology closed and proprietary (i. e. ALAC, AppleTalk, AAC) solely to monopolize market share. He also exploited several children in overseas factories to assemble his junk so he could maximize profits.

In conclusion, jobs was one of those who simply deserved to die. Good riddance. I won't be attending the iFuneral .
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Glenn Beck... is that you?
 
solletica said:
jobs' death means just as much as his life: nothing. In a nutshell, his life was all image, no substance

TO anyone who actually knows about computers and what's always been available in the market, jobs was never an innovator. He was just exceptionally good at creating the impression that he was by copying existing working technologies and putting the "Apple" or "i" prefix before it and then popularizing his version of it to the point where the dumbed down public believed he founded the technology.

Apple did not invent the GUI desktop environment, or the mouse, did not invent the portable digital music player or even create the best one on the market at the time of the iPod, and did not invent the touch pad cell phone or PC.

And, FYI (to those iCult members here), Apple did not invent death.

What jobs did do was create a cult of technically unsophisticated users who worshiped jobs solely because they were convinced something was better simply because it has the Apple name on it.

I have never owned an Apple product and am damn proud of it :) ! In fact, I owned several products years before Apple "invented" them. To the iCult, this makes no sense, obviously. But to technically adept users like me, who actually know stuff, it provided another joyous reason to laugh at everyone else who wasted their money buying an "i."

To top it off, jobs was a total jerk to everyone who worked with him. He intimidated his employees for no reason, made all his technology closed and proprietary (i. e. ALAC, AppleTalk, AAC) solely to monopolize market share. He also exploited several children in overseas factories to assemble his junk so he could maximize profits.

In conclusion, jobs was one of those who simply deserved to die. Good riddance. I won't be attending the iFuneral .
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You do know that AAC is not proprietary, right? That's like Codec 101.
 
Fiddytree said:
You do know that AAC is not proprietary, right? That's like Codec 101.
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Some overly angry person not knowing what they are talking about. How surprising.
 
solletica said:
jobs' death means just as much as his life: nothing. In a nutshell, his life was all image, no substance

TO anyone who actually knows about computers and what's always been available in the market, jobs was never an innovator. He was just exceptionally good at creating the impression that he was by copying existing working technologies and putting the "Apple" or "i" prefix before it and then popularizing his version of it to the point where the dumbed down public believed he founded the technology.

Apple did not invent the GUI desktop environment, or the mouse, did not invent the portable digital music player or even create the best one on the market at the time of the iPod, and did not invent the touch pad cell phone or PC.

And, FYI (to those iCult members here), Apple did not invent death.

What jobs did do was create a cult of technically unsophisticated users who worshiped jobs solely because they were convinced something was better simply because it has the Apple name on it.

I have never owned an Apple product and am damn proud of it :) ! In fact, I owned several products years before Apple "invented" them. To the iCult, this makes no sense, obviously. But to technically adept users like me, who actually know stuff, it provided another joyous reason to laugh at everyone else who wasted their money buying an "i."

To top it off, jobs was a total jerk to everyone who worked with him. He intimidated his employees for no reason, made all his technology closed and proprietary (i. e. ALAC, AppleTalk) solely to monopolize market share. He also exploited several children in overseas factories to assemble his junk so he could maximize profits.

In conclusion, jobs was one of those who simply deserved to die. Good riddance. I won't be attending the iFuneral .
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Ah **** son, runnn!! Icult coming after you!

I never owned a apple product either because pc/linux was better. :p

At the end, it was his own invention that killed him. (computer radiation)
 
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How did the Xerox computer from PARC work out? Oh well.

Here is another great commercial from Apple.

 
LesGovt said:
How did the Xerox computer from PARC work out? Oh well.

Here is another great commercial from Apple.

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Methings LesGovt is trying to convince us that Apple invented desktop publishing.
 
And here is another great Mac commercial:

 
solletica said:
Methings LesGovt is trying to convince us that Apple invented desktop publishing.
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Look at you trying to convince us that you invented being a douche.
 
Just curious. To all those in this forum who own an Apple PC and/or iProduct: are your devices still working? Or was there some proprietary lockin that activated when jobs died?
 
And then there is Steve Jobs at Stanford. Great speech!

 
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