Steve Jobs Has Passed Away (1955-2011)
Steve Jobs has passed away, according to Apple. May the greatest one man success story of our times rest in peace.
Statement by the Apple board:
We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today.
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.
His greatest love was for his wife, Laurene, and his family. Our hearts go out to them and to all who were touched by his extraordinary gifts.
And from his family:
Steve died peacefully today surrounded by his family.
In his public life, Steve was known as a visionary; in his private life, he cherished his family. We are thankful to the many people who have shared their wishes and prayers during the last year of Steve's illness; a website will be provided for those who wish to offer tributes and memories.
We are grateful for the support and kindness of those who share our feelings for Steve. We know many of you will mourn with us, and we ask that you respect our privacy during our time of grief.
To capture the visionary genius of the man, and truly the legend, we repost probably the most comprehensive interview that Jobs ever conducted, this one with Playboy magazine from 1985
Playboy Interview With Steve Jobs
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IBummer
Rip
I guess an apple a day does'nt keep the doctor away!
Oh, IBummer - Nice Sack!
Too soon, not cool
Bought my first Mac in 1984. $ 2,700 bucks back then.
Few people, I would say, actually did something worthwhile. Made some amazing ideas mainstream, from GUI interface to real, high quality, typography, etc. etc. Brought actual value to the world - not just a sick, twisted money shuffler - the man produced real assets. He deserved every penny he made.
RIP
Now we know why they delayed announcing a new iphone yesterday.
I'm the most anti-corporate fellow you'll ever meet, and i can't imagine ever saying this about ANY other CEO ever again...
I already miss the guy.
Perfect? No. But "who among us..."
You have to recognize the man WAS a dreamer and that he DID change our world, on balance, for the better.
How many of you made your living, directly or indirectly, using his products?
I did.
http://songsofthegreatdepression.blogspot.com/
it is the END of an ERA .... its almost like the stars are aligned ... it coincides unfortunately w/ Wall street protests and tea parties who would like to change the world.... unemployment .... when we need him most he is leaving us - really unfortunate .... the end of an era ...
There's always that Starbucks guy....
This should give FAZ a double digit green tomorrow.
Now we know why they delayed announcing a new iphone yesterday.
A marketer to the end (or those who wished to exploit), too bad about the violations of privacy, tracking and all the other police state dynamics that Apple has facilitated. Steve wasn't evil but remove the St and what do you have.... sssssssssssss
Wow that is fucking brilliant.
Just so you know, I am going to start using that.
Hopefully Steve was one of the Jobs that was created and saved. RIP.
(St)Eve sold out and ate the apple. He is a corporate whore. He did no good for our society, and in fact worsened it by hiring slave labor to make the goods (apple is NAFTA's bitch) thusly bankrupting Americans because they are so disillusioned by the magic of apple they go go bankrupt by being in debt to this asinine corporate image of our given society, created by none other than....Eve Jobs!
You are all slaves to the system unless you realize this.
I admired Steve Jobs and will miss him.
So, do the ends justify the means now?!! The guy was a visionary, but morally and socially a rotten apple. Do we praise Hitler for the autobahn system and Voltzwagen? No, his means render his ends unappreciable. We're a morally bankrupt society that makes Jobs, Buffet, Blankfein, Dimon, etc our heroes. Sad . . .
Stolkholm syndrome is real. Love your captors, bitchez.
Seriously LH, Jobs was a pied piper. Of bad technology. He was a trans-humanist who could not be kept alive by them, strange, I thought they would Borg him out just to keep him going.
If any of his acolytes need one SYmbol of how he destroyed people, it's those White Ear Buds, driving the world deaf one iPod at a time.
He was a caricature of what our heores are meant to be in this twisted place.
I hope he is pushing a rock up a hill, wherever he is.
ORI
+ rocks
"Mac killed my inner child."http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CrQjfgvqJQ
I am sure you realize the irony in the fact that you are sitting at a computer writing your diatribe. It may be a PC instead of a Mac in which case you'll be writing the same hateful things about Gates when he dies, all the while benefiting from the products they created.
We don't need technology: Technology needs us.
Stupid. Wish I could change the font. You guys are being stupid. My first computer was a Mac where I learnt how to create a web page and figured out some system scripting stuff. I don't idolize the guy but Steve Jobs made a difference. Not like you typing away and using a gui that would not have happened except for people like Mr. Jobs.
You are swimming in circles, and you are bound to drown. Yet you think you are special because your noble teacher Eve who ate the apple Jobs gave you a pointless task of doing some stupid thing. What good did you create? Do you feel better about yourself? Does your life have purpose now? Run along, and play with the other kids.
I know how to swim and even tread water. Bigger question - what did you do?
Btw I actually like most of your comments that I've seen over the past few years - reacting to some inanity I'm seeing regarding this particular person. Sorry but he made stuff and did create jobs. Did he eventually outsource them - yes. Is he a Christian? I don't care. What party did he contribute to - probably both.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_PAXelLwAw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4e9hcqVVfY
@"Stupid": You are no smarter, certainly.
It's a rigged game and an oligarchy. People who are connected (eg: free masons) are insanely advantaged over the rest, just like the children of vastly wealthy people are also hugely advantaged. I don't think Steve Jobs succeeded against all odds: he sold out to the system, and hence was able to succeed.
Here's what sucks about Jobs, Gates and the rest: they lead dysfunctional companies (everyone undermining one another from within) and they owe their success largely on lack of competition (eg: patents) and on propaganda / mind control to get sales (Jobs) or abusive monopolies (Gates). Furthermore, their success comes from the engineers and designers far more than it does from the CEO.
More to the point, why is Mohamed Ali considered the best athlete of the 20th century, bar none? Because the guy has a conscience, because he fought the system, because he was 'real'. Steve Jobs is a puke who was most certainly part of the secret societies, an industrialist who didn't hesitate to take advantage of slave labor to make a faster buck, even though he was already a gazillionaire who didn't particularly need the money. He was evidently one of the chiefs of the corporations that are making our lives hell, but we should regret his passing because he made pretty machines? Screw him.
...Stupid. Wish I could change the font. You guys are being stupid. My first computer was a Mac where I learnt how to create a web page and figured out some system scripting stuff. I don't idolize the guy but Steve Jobs made a difference. Not like you typing away and using a gui that would not have happened except for people like Mr. Jobs.
Jobs and Gates were/are great businessmen, but neither of them were great engineers, coders, or designers. It's impossible to say what our world would be like with people like Gates and Jobs because our current economic /legal system encourages people like them to get to the top. Furthermore, without all the IP law that protects their products from competition, it's arguable that the system actually retards technological progress.
PS - Apple didn't invent the GUI. Try Xerox Parc.
I use Linux. When Gates dies he'll get his wish of population control. It's too bad he doesn't off himself to set an example for the overpopulation ideologues to follow. Really, I'm not being vindictive; people should practice what they preach instead of seeking to impose it on others.
I don't have a problem with Steve Jobs but I never used his products.
Bill Gates didn't create the PC.
I'm no Apple fanboy, but it's safe to say that Gates has been Salieri to Jobs Mozart.
That said, the curated computing experience of iOS is built for retards.
Jobs success was understanding how to apeal to your inner retard with a never ending cycle of shiny objects and planned obsolesence.
Agreed.
Only if he had only known that there is a cure for cancer, he could have been saved:
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/burzynski-the-movie-cancer-is-serious-bus...
maybe then he would have decided to work not only for his personal visionary plesure and the business but allso for improving the lives of The People.
Rest in peace.
Steve Jobs RIP ! Monedas 2011 Michael Moore is to Capitalism and Freedom......what the FDA and the Texas State Board of Medical Examiners are to Dr. Stanislaw Burzinski and his Neoplastons ! Monedas wonders if Neoplastons could cure Michael Moores's Socialist cancer ?
that seems more like an infomercial than a documentary....
Does your morality extend to feeling sympathy for the slaves who mined much of the gold and silver you worship?
I wrestle with that one often. Are there no sound investments free from the taint of immorality or ethics?
It starts with making sure the head of the tax collection agency is not a tax cheat.
Let me know when can work on the next steps.
Half of the gold above ground was mined before 1900. The amount mined since I started buying is marginal. In no way is buying gold perpetuating slavery. You just gave one of the worst arguements in the history of arguements.
Buying gold now is so fractional considering our move against the FIAT PONZI that we are justified. And if the people end up with the gold instead of institutions then we can end this FIAT PONZI. I say this is a great goal.
You are against us. I wonder why.
I am trying to end the system, and I found a loophole. We take the PM, they can't short it. They can't short it, and the dollar loses its value. No more dollar, no more US military. Then no more war. Why don't you know this?
Since we are using superlatives, you just gave one of the best rationalizations in the history of rationalizations.
No doubt your gold is "ethically mined" and your sole reason for buying it is to end war, but a whole lot of the gold out there was mined by slaves or under horrendous conditions, pre and post 1900.
Ever been to a gold mine? Post apartheid SA gold mines are better than apartheid mines, but they still ain't pretty. The mines I have visited, where China is the producer, are filled with folks making less than a dollar a day for twelve hours work, much of which is hand kneading mercury through the excavated gold-bearing soil. "Mad as a hatter" is not just a cute phrase. Other of the mines use cyanide as a recovery agent. A good many people die on site. Ground water around the sites is poisonous, rivers are polluted, and the open pit mines scar the countryside. These mines have been in operation for a while, so some of the product could well have found its way to your local coin shop or online dealer.
But that gold sure is purty, and hey, owning it ends wars.
The Chinese government buys all their domestically-produced gold. So unless Mr. Lennon Hendrix is Chinese, chances are pretty good he owns no recently-mined Chinese gold.
As for the South African miners - they do the job because it pays them better than other employment opportunities in Africa. But feel free to set up a company in South Africa paying higher wages yourself.
Let's apply the argument that we should eschew gold ownership because in the past, vast amounts of gold were mined by slaves. Have a look around you - that can be said of anything older than a few hundred years. Should we stop using a Roman road because it was made by slaves? Should we throw out all our antiques because the exotic hardwood was almost certainly cut by slaves, and the cabinetmakers who shaped it consumed slave-produced sugar?
What a sanctimonious twat you are.
I'm talking about Chinese mining of gold in Burma. The Chinese government does not buy/keep all of this production. It goes elsewhere. It goes global.
I did not start the sanctimony. I did try to point out the hypocrisy of this guy's statement. Also, he tried to make a claim that his gold buying helps weaken the "system", the dollar, and eventually the military, i.e., it's altruistic. Well, if his buying of gold can end wars, then his buying of gold certainly can help drive up the price of something which then encourages the kind of mining I see here.
Why didn't you address your "because it pays them better than other employment opportunities in Africa" to the other poster, albeit replace Africa with China?
Finally, you don't know diddly about what I'm doing to improve anyone's lot in life, so feel free to bugger off.
Oh, Burma? According to wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_gold_production), Burma produced 100 kg of gold... out of a total of 2,310,000... or, roughly 0.0043% of world production.
That was back in 2006... perhaps their production has expanded by several orders of magnitude since then? If not, then chances are still good to excellent that Mr. Lennon Hendrix has no Chinese/Burmese gold.
And no, I don't know diddly about what you're doing to improve anyone's lot in life, apart from sanctimonious online advisings concerning the putative evils of PM ownership.
But do tell.
While I am sure Wiki is the be-all and end-all expert on everything everywhere, I haven’t seen too many of their people here over the last few years. Besides that, the junta here tends to be rather closed mouth, so I doubt they report to the WGC or anyone else.
As for increased production, it has exploded since gold popped $1000. Additional millions of acres have been opened up to Chinese mining interests, and the entire landscape of the northeast part of the country has been altered. Tens of thousands of people have been displaced, and one sees a "whole lot of shaking going on" in the mining areas as a result of the effects of Hg. When I see nuggets that would make an Aussie envious, or see geological reports that show 15ppm on large tracts of land, I’ll bet the production is pretty high. Certainly the monies generated have fueled a property bubble of astonishing proportions, though other factors have had an impact.
I’m not the one spouting the PC line or lambasting anyone for buying Pms per se, but I did point out the inconsistency of that guy’s argument. I am well aware that steering clear of somebody’s abuse or misfortune in this world is nigh on impossible. As I noted before, you might well have used your SA argument against Lennon and his China concerns, but I suspect your ire stems from my mentioning Pms in less than God-like light.
I see Burma also produces copper at great cost to their environment. I guess we'd better all stop using electricity as it may have come to us via some of that 'global' Burmese copper.... or over recycled copper produced hundreds of years ago by slaves.
Hey look... they produce paper, too! Isn't that the stuff our currency is made from? Maybe we should be using PMs. Oh wait, no, that is ethically hazardous too. Apparently.
Their is no Apple in the book of Genesis, you halfwit dickwang.
No apple! FRUIT YA EEJOT.
Dont hate the 'playa'. Like ant business of that size, could afford not to out source labour. It'll have taken more than one company to have supported the US job market.
Also, you need to be an animal/sociopath to be a CEO of any multinational. Again, the free market economy creates positions for people of this nature.
AAPL should be fun to watch tomorrow. Let's see people put their money where their mouth is. And isn't it high time for a Free Market correction for the major markets? Perhaps this will be the straw that breaks the camel's back. The poop is overflowing the toilet - it is time for a FLUSH.
DARPA
Steve Jobs was evil. He was an innovator, but he stole, ditched kids that he wouldn't claim, and has a private Apple security gestapo that would make Hitler blush! He was a true leader, and had charisma that we could only dream to understand, but he failed in this life on how he approached and treated other human beings. Contrast him to the other Steve of Apple, and what he did with his life, and the Woz is the person to look at an example. But..... may he rest in peace now.
mostly correct. But if you want proof, look at the tax code. As others have mentioned, the "Titans" of our age are really just cleptocrats. Jobs and gates stole DOS and windows from far better engineers. Buffet sucked the government teet just like Bill parents did.
And all of this would have been fine except they double tapped us by forming the tax code in their image, including the girl jobs had a kid with who got welfare cause he wasn't confident enough to be a parent. And Nancy Pelosi being the "liberal" voice of APPL share expatriatied taxes ownership.
Flat freaking tax. No More "heroes"
Jealous much?
Both Steve Jobs and Woz are my hero's. The Apple ][e brought computing to the home, mine included. I have lovingly kept it until this day, including an enormous 5Mb external harddrive.
Today it gets a place of honour..
Na, you have to give that move three days, because Steve Jobs was Jesus and he saved the world from war, poverty, and hunger with all of his worthless shit gadgets.
Fucking Grate
Eve Jobes is today's Rockefeller, it's just that Rockefeller didn't have "Danzig with the Starz" to brainwash everybody into thinking he did some greater good for humanity by inventing a bunch of ways to play video games.
At 23;16 you posted a comment. Communicating with others in a way that was not available 30 years ago - how did it happen. Progress - maybe ... seeing comments like this - not so much.
I wonder how old this technology really is. They roll it out slowly to acclimatize us to its existence. What's even better is that they talk us into paying money for the privilege to be tracked. You pay for your own bug.
Absolutely!! kill the messenger!! Better think your comment thru. Milestones
Whatever! Deal with it or get offline. (PS - tons of ways to protect yourself online if you are willing to do a little research)
That's too bad.
Steve Jobs imported some great Chinese electronics.
I'd give my left nut to be able to buy an Apple product made in the USA.
Think Different
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oAB83Z1ydE
While I appreciate the sentiment that this man was indeed amazingly creative with some truly excellent and accessible products, your statement suggests that he could have helped the current situation.
While this is possible, it doesn't seem to be something he particularly cared about.
Business wise, he was as ruthless as the best. Answer one single question and you'll see this. Where are apple products produced?
Nonetheless, it is sad to see someone so vibrant pass away in an age where many outlive their relevence.
I may not agree with his methodology, but I do respect his ability. I suspect many would agree.
RIP.
They were made the only place they could be made, away from the unions.
That dude was the best. We sure could use more Steve Jobs'.
They were made the only place they could be made to maximize profit for the top because short-term profit for the top 1% is more important than a long-term healthy economy, away from the unions.
There, fixed it for you.
My condolences to the Jobs family.
Losing a loved one in the physical world is one of life's most difficult ordeals, and there is no script or manual for how to deal with it.
Great Visionary, great products, but I have a big problem with the actual production. There was only one BIG reason iproducts were made in the PRC, bigger profits at the expense of the American worker. Forget the unions, go to a right to work state. Had Jobs produced his iproducts in the US, I would have ranked him up with Edison and Ford. I wonder if the 200K+ workers at Foxconn will take a moment of silence for him?
He will be missed, and at 56 years old, was taken too early. RIP
Damn right above two "Fed" guys. RIP. A genius lost.
FEDBUSTER: Boeing tried that. It does not work. IT DOES NOT WORK.
Manufacture in PRC or be non-competitive or straight-up shut down by the feds. Don't believe me ask the guitar man.
They were made the only place they could be made to maximize profit for the top because short-term profit for the top 1% is more important than a long-term healthy economy, away from the unions who will lie cheat and steal as much as the large corporate whores to rob the little foool who believes the unions actually are looking out for them while they are busy paying themselves (the union bosses) 5x's what the average working stiff gets paid. If you dont believe me find out how much your local BA gets paid and compare it to your earnings.
there fixed it for you
Sorry it is the small businessman who gets fucked over more than anyone by the unions and large corps (apple helped foster many small businesses (allowed access to products) unlike their nearest competitor). Steve Jobs was a dreamer who built great products and had amazing ideas which fostered more and more intelligence than a fool like you could ever comprehend. Yes he had to make profit but put yourself in his shoes and would you give away all your money to the fools who ask for a hand out (aka the unions or dopes who think they should be paid 1 million a year just because they said so) or would you send it offshore. I am definitely not a NAFTA guy but get honest with yourself LETTHEMEATRAND your just a jealous ass. He was worth billions and you are not worth as much as he paid for his shoes. Sorry to be so blunt but I am sick of this shit It is like repub vs dem you are missing the the underlying fight. He was an innovator who many businesses tried to squash through regulations and political heavy handedness.
RIP innovator.
There is nothing more horrible than the murder of beautiful theory by a gang of facts." Thus, the personal attacks. That's the best you've got? Really? Being attacked by a Rand worshiper is an honor and a privilege. Ironically, I am a small business owner. I would bet a piece of my anatomy that you are not.
I will one up you partner. I am a small business owner who is also unionized (hence the antiunion sentiment) Go on your play next card.
You have anti-union sentiment because you subscribe to the Rand ideology which means you believe that you are morally superior to and more deserving of success than those who work for you. I have tried and I realized long ago that there is no explaining this issue to the likes of you. Some day you will understand if something bad happens to you (narcissists only respond to that which affects them personally), or you will never understand. It doesn't matter. My comment is not for you because you are incapable of seeing beyond yourself. Others who read here may learn something, I hope.
I have anti union sentinment because I understand who they truly represent and what they actually stand for - helping themselves to a feast they were not invited to. Is your smalll business unionized? Mine is. Our union BA makes ~150k a year (+ lifetime medical, plus 2x's pension, plus ~25k credit card for his business use yearly) our average unioinized guy makes ~35 to 40k a year. Don't give me this disparity bullshit. I see it every day. THe union guy makes more than I do and I own the fucking thing.
I have never read Ayn Rand however I do know a little something about Joseph Campbell who I feel is the moral equivalent of a modern day prophet in these days.
I tell all my guys who work with us - Do not to have loyalty to our company, do not have loyalty to the union... have loyalty to yourself and your family thats it. The union will fuck you over at any chance and yes LETTHEMEAT RAND I may eventually do the same. So I truly do hope they listen to my "narcissistic" advice.
By the way did you mention whether your company was unionized?
My company is not unionized. I suspect that there is a lot more to your story than you have disclosed. If you are not enjoying your business, get you of it and go do something you enjoy and/or that is more profitable. If as you claim you have employees that 1) do not pull their weight, and 2) do nothing of value, and 3) make more money than you, then you are a complete idiot and a bad businessman/woman and you should look in the mirror at why you are such a failure rather than blaming others.
I said nothing of the sort of my employees making more than me. I said the union guys make more than me. Unionize your company and after ~two years you will understand that it is no longer you who runs your business. Yes this is demoralizing and yes we are looking and planning to move to another state to eliminate our (unioin) problem.
If you don't like having employees, don't hire them. Perhaps your hiring skills suck.
LTER - As for such a failure we have been in business for 4 years and each year we have doubled sales each year in a primarily service (engineering) industry. I do not come from money and have had no help except my own persistence to guide me.
As for our guys they are top notch and we have managed to beat out some stong, heavily entrenched (and heavily contributing to the right people) competition mainly thanks to the knowledge of our guys. In my industry word gets around quick if your guys don't know shit about what they are doing.
Then obviously all of those horrible union employees you are complaining about have actually done well by you. Maybe tone it down a bit on the greed and focus on the success you have enjoyed. Why leave your state out of spite because some of your workers who helped build your business want to share in the success? I suppose it's probably because you have a GIGANTIC ego and you believe that you deserve more than you've gotten despite the reality that you couldn't do it alone. I'll go out on a limb here and suggest that you would make even more money if you lost the attitude and shared your successes more voluntarily.
How can you be so obtuse? His complaint isn't about specific employees but is regarding a union leadership person who is siphoning money away from the union workers/business to fund his salary which the other poster claims to be higher than his salary as the business owner.
Serious? Either you didn't read his comments, you've got some major "projection" issues, or you just can't comprehend.
Galt's Gulch, CO?
I don't believe you. You sound incredibly uncredible. You own the company and the union representative of your local union makes $150,000 year plus lifetime medical plus 3 times pension plus a $25,000 worth of business expenses.... Really? And you are a "small business?" Really? You are 100% full of shit. None of this adds-up. Either you don't own the company, its not a small business, or you make a lot more than you say. But not all 3 of these can possibly be true in the current universe and the attending laws of physics. Either you are a liar or a complete fool (i.e. putting up with a situation in a company that you own that you can't stand). Which one is it?
Obviously you have never worked in a strong, unionized state.
Here numnuts this is from 2004, call me crazy but I am betting they have not taken any pay cuts (and no its 2x pension):
http://www.thelaborers.net/operating_engineers/locals/lu150/local_150_salaries-2004.htm
Also I am not antiunion I am anti greed and corruption. The unions could become a great thing again if the put their money where their mouths are and actually represent the people they claim to represent. IE... instead of taking from their people they represent they could give a little back. Not charge the retirees so damn much to keep thier health care and pensions active. The retirees in this union keep paying more and more each year to cover what were ill advised investment decisions over the past 10 years on the unions part.
I enjoy what I do however the demoralizing factor comes in when our profit per employee is ~$5-10 per hour and the union gets $25 per hour. In response to your other comment about why I do it - well for one I am good at what I do and 2 as I stated in a previous post above we are taking action to move out of state to eliminate our problems.
We are a small business with under 20 employees.
This one is a little more current:
http://www.unionfacts.com/local/employees/31860/IUOE/150/
blah blah go fuck yourself, obongo, and your holier than thou marxist bullshit, ya fuckin LOSER scumbag
Labels -- the first indication that you are a douchebag. It is not Marxist to seek a strong middle class and a robust economy. You have been brainwashed, which is easy when the brain is small.
@LTERand Besides exhibiting stupidity, what did you ever do besides burping in the union hall? You're an IDIOT
RIP Steve
+ 1
I stand with my friends and mourn the loss of genius.
From you, that is a compliment. Steve Jobs was a genius and could have been a very wealthy man without Chinese slave labor. Too bad a few billion wasn't enough.
"a few billion wasn't enough" ? really?
I bet you can also be found spouting that the taxes we (not you siphoner) we pay are never enough either?
Yes, anyone who disagrees with you is a siphoner. Thank you for proving my point about the narcissistic tendencies of you clowns. You actually agree that a few billion isn't enough. As for your other incorrect conclusion, I probably paiid more in taxes last year than you made, which is really irritating because most of it went to buy coke for some Wall Street bailout recipient (your heros). But who cares, really? Do you ever ask yourself why you worship a man you never met and who probably would not have spoken to you on the stree if you'd met him? Nevermind. Carry on, worship your celebrity.
who are you to decide how much a person deserves to earn? go fuck yourself you stinky maggot parasite
Every single employer who has ever existed decided how much another person should earn. Of course you don't know that, because you are a douchebag idealogue who has never employed anyone but who worships people you have never met. Fuck you.