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The market is not taking the Steve Jobs news well for now.
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Sad...Hell of a guy
iDon'tCare
Most sociopaths can't.
time to deathpool jobs
Don't be and idiot...
The guy has cancer and is probably dying.
Show a little fu*#ing respect.
when he dies, they'll release a special edition iphone. it'll cost four times as much, have a fake signature on the front, be completely black and have a cancerous rectum embossed on the back that you can tongue
You've had your account a whole 17 days.
Don't be an asshole. respect is earned here.
weeks...
remember when in 2008 cancerboy needed a new liver and bam, instant new liver, no waiting? fuck him, fuck his money, fuck apple.
Fuck U asshole.
What a little beeatch anyways. Why would his opinion make you cry cunt? Almost as bad as that little pussy above you counting the weeks someones been a member....respect is earned here? fucking snicker.
TYLER, BAN THIS TURD PLEASE. Everyone new this was coming, no need for this right now.
Brilliant. Now we have assholes here begging for censorship.
You don't like what he has to say? Ignore it.
Otherwise, fuck off.
Fuck You !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have a family member with cancer. He is probably checking out soon, so I can understand one's sorrow over Steve's condition.
However, I wonder how many tears Jobs shed for the workers over at FOXCOMM? Did he do anything to make their suffering any better?
On point. America's top Chinese labor exploiter and US jobs exporter. I do not understand the love affair with this guy.
iphiles dont need rational thought getting in the way of their pathetic consumerist lives.
Yeah, they should be trolling ZH and attempting to spread their inability to feel compassion for others far and wide.
back in 2004 my grandpa had cancer and needed a new liver, he had many years left in him. funny how not being rich doesn't get you a new liver pronto. he died in pain and agony lingering on for a year.
name just one actual "good" thing jobs gave the world... because i can list of tons of fucking horrible shit his corpse is leaving in its wake.
NeXT, for starters. Too bad it didn't work out.
Nevertheless, I'm with you. Jobs is a billionaire. That's the only reason he got that liver, and the only reason he's alive today.
Fuck you and your "grandpa"
If Grnadpa had made more of himself he would have been on the front of the donor list.
Instead he spawned losers like you with nothing to show for it.
Apple I-phone vs. laomei. Think Ill take the i phone
Take the i phone in yer ass nigger dave.
voice of experience?
Since about 7th grade , missy england, traci waltz , the kidd sisters, that girl behind david bollings house. Good times.
Maybe Ill google them and alert them to your post. I have a bulldog defamation/libel lawyer who'd be happy to represent them, cocksucker
yEAH, LOL, WHAT A JOKE, LAME-ASS I-PHONES WITH THE LOCATION TRACKING (no need for slower triangulation) AND THE PUKE AUTO-PIG/ data DUMP CAPABILITIES/ GET NEAR A COP WITH YOUR CONSUMERZ-I-PWND AND SEE HOW LONG IT TAKES FOR THEM TO DOWNLOAD ALL PICS/TEXTS/EMAILS AND PHONE BOOK & LOG
Hey, if you can take your head out of Steve Job's ass for a moment, maybe 'ol Grandpa didn't have wealthy parents to forks out the $57,000 a year to go to Reed College - like Steve Job's adopted parents did.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_jobs#Early_years
"Made something of himself" - or born with an advantage, it seems that your iodolisation of the capitalist is possibly misleading.
Funny how all these 'self made millionaires' usually start with an advantage - do Americans still buy that 'American dream' crap where 'everyone has an equal chance'?
It's the most unequal of societies and it's getting worse. People who fan the asses of the wealthy are adding to the problem, and all because they suck up the dream which is over a long time ago.
Everyone does have an equal chance. Only, some have a more equal chance than others.
:laomei; in the world of 2011AD all computers pretty much suck. Apple computers just suck less than all the rest of them. The reason is KISS. They continually aim to streamline and simplify whereas the dufus at Microsoft seeks to employe every hacker from every country around the world to increase the complexity and thus the confusion factor among the end user. You can tell who the PC users are because they are always angry.
The Apple II - Millions of programmers were inspired to learn how to write code
The Mac - Billions of graphic artists were empowered to create awesome works
And...what have you given the world (besides the nausea you inspire)?
apple II? Woz designed it
mac? engineering and design team led by raskin
all jobs has done is rip off ideas from others and go crazy about frivilous patents which inhibit the entire industry while shoving away all those who actually deserve the real credit. he's an asshole, pure and simple.
lao, while maybe not so expletive laden, I agree with you completely. Strange that so many here are offfended by the celebration of the passing (at least from active duty) of a totally sociopathic (yes, he is sub-human when dealing with his people, ruled with fear) guy whose big break was stealing technology from Xerox to make his stuff sexy. On top of that, he shafted hsi first partner, who was the man behind any of the tech anyways.
On top of that, those white apple ear-buds have driven an entire generation deaf and probably a little in-sane.
And yet, here are a bunch of so called libertarians getting their panties in a twist.
Quick everyone, grab your sacred cow! Now!
Vivek
http://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/precursor-03-bottom-falling-out-still-still-and-a-gander/
Right here, right now, requesting reinstatement of the "flag as junk" button.
Given a long enough timeline.....
What have you done? Anything besides breathe? And when you die, will anyone notice the loss? Even enough to cast gross insults? Probably not.
Enjoy eternity. It's a long fucking way down, from here.
rich boy becomes richer man... exactly why should anyone give even half a shit about a slavedriving psychopath finally dying.
I don't give a shit about what you are thinking so just shut up already ok?
You think anyone gives a fuck what you think? I vote you...shut the the fuck up ok?
On point.
I will show him as much respect as he shows the general person.. none. If he wasn't the head of Apple, he'd just be another a**hole on the street. Somehow techies in the Bay Area equate money with coolness and respect.
I think what happens is a lot of folks revere him because he is something they can never be, in their minds, at least. People are envious of Steve Jobs, and therefore how can one hate what one is envious of?
steve wozniak, was the one with heart
A very cool dude, in his own Woz way.
most definitely agree with you there. look at their respective bios. woz is a fucking machine and the one with all the coolness.
jobs? he's a megalomaniac manipulator with zero fucking heart. take a hint from how he immediately kills all philanthropy when he comes back to apple. look at his patents and how most of them are for accessorized crap. woz? he's got the most amazing patents and owes credit to no one else for them... why? because he is fucking awesome. jobs didn't inspire shit, he hired talent demanded it look pretty and took all the credit (and money) all the while being an elitist prick. perfect example of what's wrong with america.
Ok, Gates dies when his Jet's OS bluescreens and Elison gets his in a tragic Marlin spearing incident...
I was kind of hoping for poetic justice where Ellison would be burned alive by a wildfire over the giant compound for which he stiffed CA on the prop taxes.
Most definitely works for me. But the imagery of being speared by a leaping Marlin was irresistable...
difference being of course... gates and ellison would be missed for actual real reasons. gates? ellison? they basically plan to give away all their money to good causes. jobs? haha, fat fucking chance there.
I'm sure the US government has some very noble plans for the billions they will make off his estate on his passing.
top ticking the market, the guy is smart...
@Electron
He IS the market. At least the Nas.
Wrong tense, sir.
Au revoir, Steve. You've made history.
congrats to all the aapl shorts. {hehe}.400 was a great short entry.
The man doesn't look like hes far from death. This is pre-emptive action, better than a headline reading "Apple CEO dead" to shock the market.
Exactly.
Very sad day. More than likely his heath is deteriorating since he is walking away. God bless you Steve and your family. Your innovation has been historic.
"more than likely his health is deteriorating since he is walking away" gee ya think? Are you really fucking sad over this? " god bless you steve"? Is this a joke? Shouldnt that be plural? which god are you speaking of? The king of the jews? Why are you posting this shit here, cant you email "steve" and his family or are you trying to make me puke? Fucking chicks.
Who wants to bet that some a-hole on Wall Street will spread some bullish economic rumor before the opening bell to kite futures before tomorrow's opening.
Wall Street = Sodom
The Fed = Gomorrah
The Great Chairsatan = The Enemy
Considering AAPL's share of NASDAQ, I'd say the odds are pretty damn good.
@John Law Lives
DOD to require all personnel to carry ipads with the igun app.
Uh, make that down 23 from close...
Steve Jobs, a true American.
Yep, a true American. Outsourcing employment overseas. Exploiting workers in a foreign country for wage arbitrage. Exploiting patent law to attempt a monopoly. A true American.
loving your work in this thread M.
The guy was good at what he did, sure. But this wafer thin outpouring of grief makes me want to chunder. The world wont suffer too much for its loss, i promise all you poor sad Apple fans. Keep those chins up and shed no more tears. You'll be salivating over the next slickly marketed shiny product in no time.
Seriously Malikai, I find the hand wringing on this board really ridiculous. Perhaps ZH is becoming a little huff and puff po with regards to it's commenting public.
Sycophancy like this drives me mad.
Vivek
My motorola xoom works great. Google honeycomb os w apps and flash.
Android is Linux. That's the reason it works so well. It's based on the Linux version 2.6 core.
http://developer.android.com/guide/basics/what-is-android.html
Android blows chunks.
Sad day, I do think that this will mark a decline in the innovation at AAPL.
There's been to innovation at AAPL for so many months in a row now, so, not a big loss. Unliess if you count the patent wars for an innovation...
Fair well to a legendary Silicon Valley Icon.
Bizarre ETF movements all over the place. My VIX inverse position actually rose...this as the VXX rose, too. Fubar.
Most interesting is the confusion on the ND oil tickers where the Algo's were cued up and ready to ping pong J. Cramer's special on Bakken oil. Now that the Cramer has been preempted, they are at a loss for what to do. The hedge fund that bought 6K shares of EOG in the AH is now hanging out there.
What a joke this market is. Tomorrow will be chaos trading at its best...and I can't f'n wait for it.
HP may have pulled the plug on the Touchpad a few days too soon
While The Faithful may be crushed, I suspect this is, on balance, a good thing for Apple. He made a Lot of questionable decisions in recent years.
But I am still short.
Use volume as you cue to cover...not price. When the selling tapers off...that is your signal. The Street will be out in force tomorrow defending the stock...after they have sold some of their holdings and the mutual fund guys have flushed ini the first hour.
And then when it curiously rises on light volume, that will the time to reshort.
Will be interesting the next few days, Jobs and then The Bernank on Friday. So glad this is the third year of Obamas recovery. Feel better already.
South park is already drafting an episode.
Brett Favre has nothing on this guy, he'll be back.
so who died to bring that chart lower the previous day? if it dropped three times lower than at least yesterday's low there might be something to yell about
The man is dying. Even if you despise him, he is still a human being with family and friends who love him.
He basically bought a new liver instead of waiting on the list like everyone else. he never would have gotten on the list in the first place without being rich... he literally right then and there sentenced someone else to death. i have zero compassion at all, let the turd die in agony
Communist.
If your gramps had just gone out and murdered someone with the right tissue types, maybe he'd be alive today.
I don't agree with the above critic, myself--just because you hate capitalism doesn't mean you're a communist. In your case, seems safe to say you're just an idiot.
whoops
whoops again... these posts seem to have the lifespan of an apple product.
anyways, wager time. who'll live longer? Gaddafi or Jobs? My money's on Gaddafi, he'll also be much more missed by the world.
When Steve Jobs dies, the entire 1,000,000 strong human slaves and robots will stop their work for 10 minutes. Then, get back to suicide.
I doubt the Foxconn drones will be given time to blink once, but your insight is piercing. The more interesting phenomenon will be the reaction of the stateside fanboi base.
fuck Apple...have always hated them, always will. It's a brand, they could put the logo on a turd and people would stand in line for them. Everyone has an iPhone now, totally played out. And fuck google too.
The irony is that microsoft's products and those bastard intel chips are what resurrected Apple from the grave
Intel chips? So we are supposed to consider Motorola viable competition now?
It's what's inside that counts.
If envious - then = loser.
that's why I've stayed away from their iShit entirely. Apple is corporte greed in its worst form. Fuck Apple.
whatever, hater. Basic on the IIGS was a hell of a lot flyer than anything IBM had to offer back then
As long as Apple continues to do the exact opposite of whatever Microsoft does; everything will be just peachy.
While I'm not a fan of Apple products....it's a damn shame when a guy like Jobs is too sick to continue work..... and dinosaur fucks like Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Greenspan are still walking the earth.
The similarity is that they all kill people one way or another. Steve Jobs' iPhone will cause you to become ill/cancer. Just read the fine print carefully.
I don't understand people who think that Jobs was really the creative genius behind Apple. Behind every product is a team of designers who slave away and get no credit and very little respect. Apple pays their designers shit and the people that build their product next to nothing. I wonder how many of you saw that Apple photoshopped Samsung's product to make them look more like Apple so the idiot patent judge would think Samsung copied Apple directly. They changed the aspect ration of the device completely and it was so blatant anyone with half a brain could catch it. Goes to say that most judges work with less than a 1/4 brain.
CEO's are just poster children used as window dressing for the real work a company does. The sad part is they have maneuvered their way into positions of such immense power and wealth that it is virtually impossible to break into their ranks unless you are anointed by one of them. Kind of like getting into West Point. The easiest way is to come up with some crap idea that can make an investment bank rich on your IPO. It doesn't matter if the business is actually worth anything or produces anything of value. If it can goose the stock market then that is all the value they need. Like that half retard Zuckerberg who gets invited to the White House. yeah that kid actually knows how to reinvigorate the US job base, sure.
I have sat down with CEOs of Fortune 500 companies and made presentations to board members at IBM. Corporations like IBM and Microsoft use college students as a brain drain study so they don't have to pay much money for new innovation and then they run out and patent the ideas the college students create for them. It is great to use in your portfolio but the patent rights would be better. A team I worked with in college pretty much created the concept for the modern smart phone in 1999 for IBM. I later found out that IBM patented most of the ideas and sold some of the patents to Samsung. Who knows part of the project may be part of a legal case against Apple.
What I have learned is that the majority of the executive set is brain dead outside of the ability to goose their company's stock. That is actually the #1 job skill for any CEO. Most wouldn't even know how to create a product if their life depended on it. You have board members from Lowe's sitting on boards of tech companies. Guys that run Whirlpool sitting on sporting good corporations. It is complete insanity. Without the stock market 99% of the current publicly traded companies would go bankrupt within a month if they actually had to base their success on real business instead of accounting tricks and stock scams.
I guess that is the end of this rant.
The CEO's job is to achieve the goals of the OWNERS of the corporation through the employees.
They're not all stupid--you just don't understand their real role. They needn't be interested in the company's production or operations.
The "window dressing" is actually the corporate charter. Invert the paradigm.