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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
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Steve Jobs was a successful man, and an intelligent man; and he provided some very important technical developments for society’s benefit because of his discipline and drive and genius. But he also was like Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller, and the railroad barons – all of whom you would say have helped society.
But he was not like Henry Ford: Ford’s idea was to produce high-quality cars, and pay his workers enough money so they could buy their own. Steve Jobs’ idea was to figure out a 54% cost/profit margin using Chinese labor versus “Made in America.”
In short, at the crossroads of America, Steve Jobs was not helpful in preserving America as the land of opportunity and freedom, as God’s country because metaphorically it was hoped to be “a shining city upon a hill.” He turned to the globalists for his philosophy; he looked to the world for its resources and markets and opportunities while at the same time he looked to America for the protection of her guarantees; his patents were protected by American law, the benefits for his U.S. employees were protected by American law, his personal property was protected by American law, his corporate assets were protected by the American military…
Yet, when it came to resources and labor he was international; he ignored comparative advantage for the American system and its people, and for the protection of future entrepreneurs to operate under a free enterprise supply and demand economy built upon individual opportunity and the freedom and heritage that produced the advantages he used to further his wealth.
Yes, you may argue his innovations created thousands of jobs and applications, but in the long run, what do innovations and applications matter if Americans are not free; if that freedom is used to work men as slaves with the ruse that economic slavery is nobody’s business?
Steve Jobs was a successful man; but Steve Jobs was not a great man.
And JR you are an ignormus. Its impossible to build high volume cellphones in USA within allocated leadtimes. Hell its impossible to do it anywhere in the world besides China, Taiwan maybe but CHina has the infrastructure to build mass market items.
If the underbelly of Apple’s manufacturing base has to be run like a slave plantation in China for Apple to be what it is with procedures illegal in a free nation such as America, then Apple's plantation products need either to be banned in the U.S., or subjected to tariff.
The Chinese people who believe in the cause of human freedom do not share in your spirit of servitude.
It’s difficult, ignoramus or not, to predict market impact of such companies as Apple without remembering the plantation-like world of their manufacturing partners…the line of suicides and suicide nets and consistent reports of sweatshop working conditions…that provides the necessary labor equation that gives Apple its market dominance. Just how much comparative advantage is America to give up to a foreign manufactured product made by a U.S-protected company with profits non-taxed in the Caymans?
Bloomberg reported on September 29, 2011, that a coalition led by Apple Inc., Google Inc., and Cisco Systems Inc. is pressing “for a tax holiday on more than $1 trillion in offshore profits.”
Data compiled by Bloomberg News show that “an army of more than 160 lobbyists, including at least 60 who once worked for a sitting member of the House or Senate, is pushing for the repatriation holiday….
“Independent studies have found that the last time this tax break was tried, in 2004, the bargain rate for bringing home offshore profits did little to spur hiring or domestic investment. Most of the money was used to buy back stock.
“The proposed holiday would reward the companies that have most aggressively parked profits in tax havens such as Bermuda, the Cayman Islands and Switzerland…”
IMO, very few Americans are willing to sell their freedom for an iPad.
He may not have been the best entrepeneur or capitalist of his time, but he had his strong points. While Bill Gates was stealing his ideas, Steve stole Xerox's whole computer engineering staff. He fought the good fight against the man and came out on top, and gave the most innovative people in the country the best jobs you can get. I've been a mac user since 2008, and although I have a long list of complaints about the technical underpinnings of the OS, and I don't own an iPhone or any other silly toys, I still have a great respect for what he's accomplished; technically, economically, and as an inspiration to anyone who knew what he was about.
RIP Steve :(
Steve Jobs did at least two things that any good business person should follow:
1) Relentless drive to create products that give customers what they did not know they needed. He hated focus groups and market research since these tools never developed dazzling new products. "Ask the customer" was not in his lexicon because he knew customers could not fathom the future, but he and his team could
2) Relentlessly please customers. Service, product design et al. He knew people would pay premiums for fabulous, cutting edge products if they worked well and were backed by service
Amazing how often companies don't think about this
I had an Apple IIGS in 1990, that was beautiful machine, I never bothered with that MS-DOS crap. BUT-- that IIGS was made in Cupertino, Calif., not Foxxcomm's Srave Rabor Emporium. Food for thought. RIP Jobs. A great success, but he had help-- don't forget Woz was soldering the first Apple while Steve dropped acid and thought big thoughts.
Yes, RIP Steve. But when I think of Steve Jobs I think of the story Woz tells that Steve didn't want to issue stock options to a group of employees. Woz paid for their options with his own money. Oh, and don't forget that whole messy SEC options backdating thing too. He did some cool and great stuff, but I'm not sure he is ready for sainthood.
Yeah, well, none of us are ready. He was just human.
Despite his granola-eating New Age peace and love BS, he eventually saw the light and became a true capitalist and destroyed the larcenous, greedy music industry with a single product to boot. Meanwhile, every hardware manufacturer out there is trying to create a tablet that can even sniff the iPad's ashe, drowning beneath the crest of the Apple wave with each try.
The closest this world will have to a Tony Stark.
Anyway. RIP Jobs.
Just bought my first iPhone last week. This thing if amazing.
RIP Steve.
Tip o' the hat, Jobs. Wasn't a customer or a fan, but I can respect the man nonetheless. Not many of us will be able to say we did as much as him.
This may be the causus belli that initiates the market rout.
RIP, 56 is to early.
If every company was run by a man like Steve, the world would be a pretty awesome place.
RIP Steve.
yes and every company would shut down in the usa and move all the jobs to asia.....oh wait...they did that so they could make their 5th billion dollars.
Blame your goverment for allowing this to happen, not the companies who have to find the lowest costs or they go out of business because they can't compete.
Don't hate the player....
thanks, good luck
IGenius is INoMore!
RIP.
I'm not an Apple fanboy but even I choked up.
RIP.
Man of the Century. He is the United States of America and all it stands for. We will never forget you Steve. The tears of sorrow flow at your passing.
So here is another debt I will never be able to pay.
I have thought of this with writers. I have written to thank them for what they did for me, because the tiny bits of my money they got was not nearly enough.
Why didn't I think of it with this guy? Steve Jobs was the closest thing we had to Hank Rearden.
Well -- if anybody can still get online after death, I guess it would be him, so here's what I should have said a few years ago.
Steve Jobs -- you changed the way I saw computing. I used one of your Lisas long ago, and it changed me and helped to wake me up. You have been a vector pointing from the world as it was, to the world as it must become. The tiny bit of my money you got is not nearly enough thanks, so I thought I should write this to you. I cannot give you a Nobel Prize. I am not wealthy or powerful. But even so, please accept from me, for your heroic work in a dark world, my Lifetime Achievement Award, and my thanks.
And if the angels give you any trouble, my friend, please call me as a witness.
Well, I guess we've seen the top for APL...
Gotta love how people sprout wings after they're dead. He was just a guy, and he died like everyone else will eventually.. see the tag line for this site....
Apple is still an evil empire, and he started it all.
Steve Jobs Wall of Videos
http://www.viralvideowall.com/steve-jobs
1955-2011
RIP Steve Jobs
1955-2011
RIP American Empire
I got started on an Apple 2 e.
Shine on crazy dancer.
They put Steve Jobs soul into the Siri assistant to make it work... true sacrifice for his craft
I can't eat an iPod but your ideas fed my mind. God speed Steve. You'll be missed.
Whether or not you use his products, whether or not you liked the man, he changed the way the entire world works, plays and communicates. He might well have shared some of the human frailties we all have, but how many amongst us share even a touch of his vision? His impact? His perseverance? There might be imitators, but only one original. RIP Mr. Jobs.
To those who use this occasion to vent their small-minded fury at the meaninglessness of their own existence compared with a man who made a positive difference in the world - you know who you are and you deserve to be exactly what you are.
And the good news is that you will never be anything else.
Well said. I may borrow this if you don't mind.
Well said. Thank you.
Thanks for the laugh. Must be pretty neat being all knowing.
That is probably the most offensive comment I have ever read. A man is just a man, some just have the right amount of luck and timing to be great. If Steve Jobs tried to make Apple today he couldn't in a million years, even being as smart as people say he was.
In college people in my class along with me created ideas that blew away anything Apple created long before they were a sparked synapse in Jobs brain. Many of the ideas went on to be included in products from Apple, Microsoft, Samsung, etc. Interfaces we designed have been used as the basis for GUI design since 1999.
For every titan there are thousands of people who never get the credit or a pat on the back for enabling the titan to gain his power. Somewhere deep within a pile of paperwork me and my colleagues are mentioned but nobody will ever know the real idea was not that of Bill or Steve but some 19 year old kid in college.
Many times the small man makes more of a difference than the billionare held high.
For people like Jobs, money is just a way of keeping score. What drives them is their creative genius.
The proof of Jobs' greatness is how reinvented himself again and again, NEXT, Pixar, his amazing second tour at Apple, the man was unstoppable.
Hat off to a great warrior. Godspeed Steve.
Jobs, like many "great" men, was a paradox. Aren't we all?
No one goes it alone. None of us would be here today if that were the case. And does the small man count? Of course he does. Being small doesn't mean you have to be spiteful. I hope for your sake you're wearing a garment made of sack-cloth that you've sewn yourself and not clothing fashioned by a slave laborer while you're casting your stones.
Was Jobs an angel? No. Are you? No. I know I'm not.
It speaks volumes of those who would chime in wanting to kick dirt on a man who just died. We're not talking about Ghengis Khan (although based on some comments perhaps that is the parallel some are drawing).
Maybe those with negative comments feel they are enlightening those they see as poor, misguided rubes. That seems like a personal conciet and hardly worthy behavior of someone proclaiming moral judgements against another. After all, as you said "A man is just a man."
One reads your comment and gets the feeling you're resentful for not getting the recoginition you feel you deserve.
Well, here it is.
I love this website..UNTIL..days like today...When trolls and douche bags flow out of the woodwork to chime in on the Man,,A Giant....STEVE JOBS he helped create a company worth more then EXXON out of his fucking garage...Some of you fucks have a hard time operating your zipper. It is truly amazing that some of you bloggers, hid your sick thoughts and small minds behind your little avatars...If you were in my pub tonight, I love to knee you in the groin...
I love this website..UNTIL..days like today...When trolls and douche bags flow out of the woodwork to chime in on the Man,,A Giant....STEVE JOBS he helped create a company worth more then EXXON out of his fucking garage...Some of you fucks have a hard time operating your zipper. It is truly amazing that some of you bloggers, hid your sick thoughts and small minds behind your little avatars...If you were in my pub tonight, I love to kiss you in the groin...
Much to your chagrin please read. Try North Korea if you don't like it here!
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
*looks around, shakes head, leaves room*
"Here's to the crazy ones" Steve Job's own comeback stamenent.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oAB83Z1ydE
RIP Steve.
my mom passed away a couple of years ago RIP...............I didn't know Steve Jobs
A cartoon tribute: http://i.imgur.com/uQEFI.jpg
Today I cried. Life is too short. I miss you already Steve.
-jimijon
To put into context, Gates could only produce a crappy software platform. Jobs was able to produce a user friendly platform as well amazing hardware devices for multiple applications. Generational genius is hard to come by, just ask Sarah Palin. If western economies had half the imagination as Apple we'd at least stand a fighting chance but with all the Dickies, Georgies, Rummies and Rickies of the world we are DUN...done.
Somehow I survived without ever owning a Crapple product. Amazing. It is a bit ridiculous, the fan boy cult thing that is. Its not like he invented the transistor for God's sake. They are just ergonomic trinkets, built on existing technology. Great sales weasel, nothing more, sorry.
He figured out that most americans are borderline idiots, then catered to them. LONG LIVE PRODUCTS CUSTOM DESIGNED FOR THE LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR!
Steve Jobs was Apple and vice versa...Apple will never be the same.
What genius is/was in the modern world.
He was one of the true founding fathers of the personal computing era. Anyone still remembers Apple Newton, the first PDA/Handheld device? Steve, RIP.
Steve Jobs knew what people wanted...
before they knew they wanted it.
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An American original. RIP
For Steve Jobs, consider watching this very nice funny video about the iPhone. Steve would like us to smile at his loss.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9KZ3BJzdk4
http://goo.gl/QsdJa
Cool.
Fuck Bill Gates,
Sorry just acting out of upset, but Gates is a douche bag and microcrap and all its entities are total garbage
Yes, a man who gained unspeakable wealth through planned obsolesence and damn near slave labor in shithole factories overseas for pennies on the dollar. Then he comes over here with a product that took all of maybe 50 bucks to produce, and sells it to idiots who want to be "in" for hundreds of dollars if not thousands, only to turn around 9 months later and introduce a brand new version of the same damn product, that costs even more! I do wonder how many credit cards got maxed out, and HELOCs spent to buy the latest and greatest iWhatevers for Mom and Dad and all 3 kids? At one time, he was a pioneer. Many industrialists were. But then once the big money started rolling in he became an elitist ass.
No man is an island entire of itself; every man
is a piece of the continent, a part of the main;
if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe
is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as
well as a manor of thy friends or of thine
own were; any man's death diminishes me,
because I am involved in mankind.
And therefore never send to know for whom
the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
- John Donne, Meditation XVII
Rest in Peace Mr. Jobs
Steve was a national treasure. He was the type of visionary that comes around perhaps once every 50 years. I am sorry to see him go. In troubled times as these we need people like him to lead us out of the darkness. RIP.
my blackberry is made in Canada No seriously it is. WTF!
Killer Ap
Died with all that money. Are they gonna bury him with it? He sure wasn't no Andrew Carnegie. For me BIll Gates is 100x the human being Jobs was.
they both, and you, die naked.
With all the money one could imagine, the process could not be thwarted, and thus shall it be with us.
On the marker, if tradition prevails, will be two dates and a dash. What's in your dash?
And where has Steve now moved to?
Bill Gates Huh? Check your facts
-microsoft is a shit product, his mommy slept with senators to get him government contracts and become the OS of choice, he is trying to kill the sub-sarharan world by developing a vaccine for aids when all he has to do is get them clean water.
He is a corporate douche bag of the highest order fuck him
At least Gates is trying to help the less fortunate on our planet. I doubt the thought ever even crossed JObs mind.
want to help the less fortunate?
Fucking educate them. Educate our dumbass masses, too. All of society's ills are a result of the ignorance of the masses; they know not the details of economics; they don't care about systems that directly shape their lives--they merely wish to exist in their little sphere, and leave the management of any system to other people while they just sit back and waste away their lives.
That's the problem with people: they don't know their power because they've willfully cast that power away. IF people would rise up to fulfill any societal management obligations, do you think we would need fatass fucking "representatives" to take lobbyist dollars, and squander the effort of millions upon millions of people in any given society?
There's no reason why the masses cannot be "enlightened" with the communications abilities available to us today: but it is not in the interests of the established power structure to allow for that--so we'll all be complicit in this great waste of life. Look at the technological advancement made by just a handful of people in "civilized society;" It's great, yeah -- but I think the return on human innovation is far too low. We should be societies of artisans and architects and engineers. Now, why aren't we? Because labor is cheap--and money and the power structure doesn't have a need for enlighted populaces when the only motive is wealth extraction. Capitalism doesn't create the best society, I'm afraid to say. All capitalism does is encourage the worst in people. And you wonder why our system is corrupt to the core? What the fuck do you think happens to people when you throw them to the dogs and tell them that greed, and subsequently profit, is good?
I think there needs to be a different approach to whatever advanced society that's formed next. Value needs to be placed on allowing people to realize their own capabilities: we're not fucking dumbasses--we're a species that's survived for millions of years--we have great potential within us, it's just that we're not being properly "powered" to see to even greater things.
And by the less fortunate you mean the not yet sterile?
http://www.naturalnews.com/028887_vaccines_Bill_Gates.html
http://www.prisonplanet.com/bill-gates-use-vaccines-to-lower-population....
My condolences to shareholders.
Love Steve Jobs. Even bought a macmini must be 5 years ago!
But I'm a fanatic of this site now and would love to order a few extra large tshirts, but nothing available.
Steve, Thank you for everything. I work for a software company that makes the highest quality piano tuning software in the world, reyburn.com. We started on the Mac OS 7 platform. We are just releasing our newest version for iOS this month. In addition to every other application that you are aware of, Apple helped the world's pianos to sound just a little bit better. He was a giant, but also a practicing Buddhist, who tried to connect to all living beings on our planet. R.I.P.
The man was a fully-realized genius. The world is NOT a better place with him gone. RIP.
56 is quite old by any standard.
How long do you plan to live?
Just yesterday I was listening to that most trustworthy and noble of all voices: National Propaganda Radio [NPR... taxpayer funded though the number of taxtakers now exceeds that of taxpayers]. the item was regarding the percentage of modern humans who meet their demise via unnatural means. In the old days, for men the number was about 15%... by the sword, the arrow, drawn/quartered, starved out... Now its an insufficient 3% or so.
Steve Jobs was the right man at the right time. I will miss him.
"Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth." - Albert Einstien on Gandhi.
I think something of this order is waranted upon this one as well.
What a person! What a life!! Hats off...
Excuse me but wtf?
Building trinkets for cash is not the same as being an exemplar of non-violent protest to oppression.
Is there an iUnderstand app yet?
gandhi should've made some shiny toys for people to play with--then he might be more dearly remembered amongst people.
People love shiny stuff.
It boggles the mind.
are you out of your motherfuckin mind??!?!?!
And, no I don't worship Gandhi, either...he was a dumbass and a coward. Einstein at least you can respect. You gonna put the iPhone up with General Relativity now, and the freedom of India?
The lovefest over this guy is sickening. It is sad the man died and left his family behind and that deserves condolences. However, the man was a slave driving corporate sociopath that did far more harm to the well being of the middle class economy than help. If Apple would have bit the dust in the late '90s the world would probably be a better place. Let's not forget Microsoft helped save Apple out of sick self preservation. If Apple would have gone down MS probably would have been broken up.
Once Apple was savedand Jobs was back on board he went on a personal crusade to destroy consumer choice. Apple is the closest thing to a pure fascist corporation that ever existed. Supreme leader Steve Jobs, cross him and kiss your as goodbye, disagree with him and you re toast. The Apple way or the highway. Jobs always wanted proprietary systems and software and if he had his way the only product on the market would be Apple with a massive profit for him.
How many jobs were lost due to the iPod. He created a monopoly because of a dock connector. Even if a better product came to market people were stuck with Apple because of past investment. What if Steve had decided to use a standard USB connector? Sure iTunes became a sensation, and a blow to privacy, but it put thousands upon thousands of music stores out of business.
Sure you could say it was capitalism, but Apple was everything wrong with capitalism where unbridled greed was worshipped above the welfare of man. I find it amazing people hold products as failures until Apple puts out the same thing in a pretty package.
So rest in peace Steve. If you tried to build a true consumer tech company in a garage today like you did a few decades ago, you wouldn't get out the door. A company called Apple would shut you down for violating one of its obscure patents and you would have had to settle for a job at McD's.
Hopefully Apple will die anda few hundred new companies that will employ hard wrking Americans wil take its place. That goes for every other corporate monstrosity as well. Steve Jobs was a visionary and did change the world but I will argue every day it wasn't for the better.
Well put.
billy? is that you little billy?
Possibly a fair rebuke, but you lost me at: "If Apple would have bit the dust in the late '90s the world would probably be a better place."
Lost me at "put thousands upon thousands of music stores out of business." That would have happened with or without Apple. These were dinosaurs headed to the KT layer.
Record stores were great, but boo fucking hoo. He used his market share to crush an industry. Mises would be proud.
I really don't think so. I like the ambience of record stores myself. There was an old vinyl store in Mill Valley called Village Music where you could run into Elvis Costello or Tom Waits thumbing through the collections. But as charming as it was I wouldn't trade being able to get a 30s preview on Amazon or CD Baby for the nostalgic experience.
No one killed Ms. American Pie. It was DOA once the first websites came online. To lay it at Jobs' or Apple's feet is disingenuous. At best.
Both Steve and Bill STOLE EVERYTHING they ever sold. Bill was smart enough to give it away for "free". Apple managed to go the proprietary route (for now). But they remind me of Harley Davidson bikes---over rated shit, but folks don't care. It's a status symbol more than a product.
Yeah. Guy I worked with, his bike was in the shop so much he named it "Hardley a Davidson." They were cool till they started making them in China.
he means that MS's monopolistic practices were allowed to continue.
What did Jobs do? he EMULATED his savior, Gates. Couldn't beat him, so he joined him.
"Apple is the closest thing to a pure fascist corporation that ever existed."
And that's why I hate Apple. But I find it hard to explain this to my relatives. They just don't understand or care because having an Iphone is "cool". Sometimes I swear they are totaly brainwashed. Maybe I should go buy a TV so I could understand them.
Go in peace, Steven, and come back soon. You made the electronics serve people, and interact with people better than anyone else. Too bad you had to leave so soon - i am sure the next 50 years would have been interesting with your vision continuing to shape the electronics of tomorrow. One thing is for sure, no one else currently present in tech even comes close.
This life was brought to you by: FREE CAPITALISTIC ENTERPRISE.
Rest In Peace Mr. Jobs...
Jobs in the same league as Edison? (as some are saying). You have got to be kidding. Edison invented the LIGHTBULB and RECORED MUSIC. Gonna be a long time til someone tops that.
Replace edison with Tesla and your statement is even better.
Damn straight. Edison was a theif and a shill. Tesla was the man.
I do wish I had an apple Newton though.
Tesla is your cult figure. I prefer James Clerk Maxwell, without whom there might never have been a Tesla.
Edison was a hack. A rapacious, plutocratic monopolist but still a hack. Jobs was a visonary, not unlike Edison's superior:
http://overcomeeverything.com/2924/edison-tesla-war-currents/
the question of both Gates and Jobs, were they enemies of the technologies they profited from
RIP Mr. Jobs.
The first computer I worked on was the original Mac, followed shortly by a Mac II. I loved that machine. I wrote my thesis on it to the overflowing jealously of other lab rats on their clumsy DOS boxes.. Zenith x something or other... . This was how computing should be I thought inumerable times. Genius it was. Then my LC575... loved the consistent all in one concept. Then the PowerPC 6100. I type this now on my Duo code Imac. How my Mac grew up. His creativity has spawned untold new lines of development in personal computing, mobile communications and mobile computing to say just a few areas. Through this creativity, his contribution to our society, how we live our lives is simply astounding. One of, if not the greatest CEO of all time. There will be many more comparable and creative geniuses throughout the coming decades, but tonight the world lost one of the best and for now is a lessor place. May you rest in peace Steve Jobs.
dude, slit your throat and go worship him in the afterlife.
You are fuckin insane.
You're a real anus do you know that?
his words have to come from his anus as his brain hasn't 2 cells to work together!!
iSad
"Ladies and Gentlemen, John Galt has left the building"
To everyone running down Jobs, you would have acted with equal self interest in the same circumstances. After all, that's why you are here at this site, trying to maximize your returns with better information to get in the best place possible for the future! RIP Mr. Jobs
Goddamn you people are idiots. The guy abused the fuck out of millions of chinese migrant workers and mexican migrant and displaced from farming through nafta workers and you guys drool over him.
Fuck resting in peace. I hope his ass polishes 10000 piece of shit plastic cases till his finger prints are gone from slipping.
He's not a ceo. He's a religious icon. His rewards are ipods and the RIAA shoved up your ass instead of eternal bliss.
Does your morality extend to feeling sympathy for the slaves who mined much of the gold and silver you worship?
I love you Heph, this is a fair critique.
Lot of silver in the iPad as well.
iDon'tFuckingCare
The best and brightest usually die penniless and Jobs was not one of them. Keep sucking his dick even in his death, if you like. I won't. Does anyone here know who developed the transistor or boolean algebra? I doubt it. Go ahead, Search it on Google and troll me. You don't fool me. 99% of people don't know who really made the PC possible. Go fuck yourselves.
God didn't take Bill Gates.
because the Devil owns Gates & Bulmer
how do you think peddling garbage for decades didn't arouse any consumer group? ..how do you think Gates & Bulmer avoided all Govt monopoly legislation, grew to 95% of the world global PC market and then took a stake in the other 3% (Apple) without getting run through the courst by Govt ???
Microshite is the devil incarnate and has the Govt and consumer groups stitched up too (as if they ever represented consumers or businesses best interests)
"...99.6% of Steve Jobs' campaign donations have gone towards democratic candidates and the DNC. His largest single contribution totaled $100,000 to the DNC in 1996. He has endorsed Ted Kennedy, Nancy Pelosi, Bill Bradley, and others."
Obama's "we are the ones we have been waiting for" schtick could have come directly from the mouth of Jobs. Thanks Steve for supporting decades of corrupt loser Democrats who destroyed not only the country, but your home state and even Silicon Valley. You may be gone, but America and California will suffer from your legacy for a long while.
I do not care if you like apple or not, The man changed the world, He was awsome. I do not like apple products but I have so much respect for Steve Jobs. Amazing how he changed the world. Steve... me and the world wish you the best in the next life.
Good luck to all
The only reason you know him is because he made a bunch of useless shit for your smug ass. Meanwhile... the real heroes are nameless.
Didn't he get caught backdating stock options????
One of the greatest beings in the history of planet earth. RIP.
I'm amazed at the vitriol directed towards Steve Jobs on the board tonight. Have most of you even read the Playboy interview or anything else about him that gives a glimpse into his character? Or do you just think that anyone who attains success at his level is inherently evil? This man probably did more good for more people in any single day of his like than you will do in all your days combined. He wasn't perfect and never claimed to be. He did not suffer fools well, which you probably interpret as being cruel and insensitive. Fine. Go hug a cancer survivor and walk 5k to save the forests, then climb on your righteous throne to pass judgement on Steve Jobs. You've earned the right for your tremendous efforts to advance mankind.
"Stay hungry, stay foolish." If you've seen Steve Jobs' address to the Stanford graduating class, you know these are the words he left them with. They're a quote from the last Whole Earth Catalog. Given up for adoption, never completed college, was fired from his own company, and yet found a way to truly advance mankind's technological ability more than almost all humans who came before him. He quietly gave away most of his fortune, beginning in the years when he first became wealthy, not waiting until he had billions to do it. He didn't crow about it. Everything he pursued, he did it with passion and uncompromising quality. He never built junk. He never allowed bad software to be written and run on his systems. What you see as greed to not allow competition, was really his strtegy to protect the quality of his products.
I'm the same age as he, and I marvel at his life and his accomplishments and the dignity of his passing. He worked and led his company until he could no longer physically do it. It wasn't greed, it was love and passion for the purpose of his life that drove him to the end. I think he's a honorable role model and a great American. Mock and deride him if it makes you feel special, but deep down you know you'll never pursue anything or accomplish anything that comes close to what this adopted kid from a midlle class family in America rose up and did. It doesn't make you a bad person, it just prevents you from seeing the good in him that might just influence you in a good way. I encourage you to do a bit of googling and youtubing and learn a bit more before you pick up the next stone to hurl at his reputation, and ask yourself what folks would blog about you if they examined your life as much as Steve Jobs' life has been examined?
To the rest of you who share my admiration of him, I say "Stay hungry, stay foolish."
Roscoe
Why is it that people like you don't understand how the world really operates? Nobody gives a shit about the countless people who contribute to science and technology. But that one motherfucker who makes useless shit for the smug upper middle class, who yearn to be the elite upper class, but never make it, is elevated to God like status.
its called nihilism.....its going to end well.
But it isn't about the man. Instead, it is about the utility of the device. He thought enough about the utility of the device for the slave class that he made it useful and more durable than the other guy. And, his example was important. He was a minor cult figure amongst his peers at the turn of the century. Only those that "worked in advertising and music" used Mac products. Now, his company is huge, everywhere and a staple. God rest his soul. Remarkable man and the fact that those on this board try to tear him down only speaks to that fact.
Thank you, Roscoe. There is a true division between those that want the current corrupt regime to crack and fall away. One still upholds the spirit of the individual to strive and make good in their lives and the lives of others. The other, however, wants all individuals to mire in the same heap and will always despise individual achievement, even if the essence of that achievement, like Jobs, really reflects the best, possible way in us all. That latter group should look in the mirror. If it had true introspection, it would realize it isn't much different than the current corrupt regime it wants to see broken.
And that's why this website is so outstanding.
this just in. early footage of AAPL shareholders. in first 7 seconds
things seem calm and then all hell breaks loose... a market panic!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndtDZ-DQE1M
you can almost hear them screaming
SELL SELL SELL !
all I can think of is that IKEA scene in Fight club, I guess that's where we are in this Nihilistic world, we worship products now, not god. I cheer this Nihilism, it will end well and be fun to watch.
No shit?
I'm a nihilist in that I can't say that there's any objective meaning in the world--but fuck me, I'm no goddamned willing nihilist. My "fight" is the fight against the meaninglessness of societies. IF THERE IS NO OBJECTIVITY AS FAR AS HUMAN SYSTEMS ARE CONCERNED, WHY DO WE WASTE OUR LIVES ON MEANINGLESS BULLSHIT THAT IS PREDICATED ON THE ASSUMPTION OF OBJECTIVITY?
We should be finding a greater subjective purpose for ourselves--we should be building great societies--not fucking worshiping creators of trinkets that we play around with. Humanity should be FORCED to advance if it cannot advance by itself because of its infatuation with the inconsequential; the meaninglessness is all encompassing--stupid fools all around me worshiping their perceived objectivities.
thxs for the reply, glad i'm not the only one who see's this. crazy fucken world, only the madmen see the light.
I'd flip through catalogs and wonder what kind of personal electronics device defined me as a person.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOx9uQ4cuJk
Can you get the Horchow Collection on a Kindle?
Only on the Pocket Edge.
How cute. The University of California system has produced another one!
We "waste our lives on meaningless bullshit" because there isn't anything else to do. Existence itself is meaningless, so we manufacture meaning out of the chaos, confusion and randomness. It's how we pass the time cradle to grave. I can take some pleasure in seeing how an adopted boy from a middle class family can seize control of his life and make something great of it, get knocked down time and again, and keep getting up to fight the good fight, never once losing his passion, and impacting people in every single country on Earth. It's the same way I can enjoy and appreciate an athlete like Wilma Rudolph, Jesse Owens or Michael Johnson, a musician like Yo Yo Ma or Christopher Parkening, or even a Japanese "National Treasure" who produces an absolutely flawless lacquer box. None of those pursuits has any real meaning, but since we have the ability to experience, endeavor, persevere, overcome, perfect, and most importantly enjoy, then I might as well enjoy. Sure beats being miserable, bitter and hateful until my number is called.
I bought my first Mac Plus and from that machine on I have never owned anything that wasn't a Mac. Thanks Steve, not every thing was perfect but it was always a good effort....iHeaven,,,
I think this picture tells the whole story:
http://2012hipster.blogspot.com/2011/10/steve-jobs-has-passed-away-1955-...
It must be said that the only reason Jobs and Apple were able to succeed at mass marketing their products from 2000 onward was cheap, foreign labor. With domestic labor, the products would have cost twice as much and never become the cultural icons they did.
Jobs was a leader. Jobs was a creator. Jobs in his illness became a sympathetic character. Jobs was celebrity. He became a part of American culture and now we have a void where he used to be. Love or hate, what was a part of us is now gone. Good luck filling the void with anything better. RIP Steve.
and the Woz sits at the kidde table again. RIP. Long live the Woz
If I was blunt and I am, Its better to die at that top of a bubble than anywhere else, what it means for stock price god only knows
I am saddened anytime that a fellow human being passes away. RIP Steve.
That being said, fuck Apple and fuck Steve jobs. People can stop the hero worship now.
Ditch your Mac and install Linux bitchez. Because Mac is basically a proprietary version of Linux anyways, so why pay for that overpriced Mac crap anyways.
Ceo's die all the time, they tend to be old. so how do you trade it., I guess you morons are just going to burn candles, long wax, short PC
maybe the cult of Steve is over. which close to where I would place him. But really most people dig a cult.
maybe the cult of Steve is over. which close to where I would place him. But really most people dig a cult.
maybe the cult of Steve is over. which close to where I would place him. But really most people dig a cult.
Dominus regit me, et nihil mihi deerit:
in loco pascuæ, ibi me collocavit.
Super aquam refectionis educavit me;
animam meam convertit.
Deduxit me super semitas justitiæ
propter nomen suum.
Nam etsi ambulavero in medio umbræ mortis,
non timebo mala, quoniam tu mecum es.
Virga tua, et baculus tuus,
ipsa me consolata sunt.
Parasti in conspectu meo mensam
adversus eos qui tribulant me;
impinguasti in oleo caput meum:
et calix meus inebrians, quam præclarus est!
Et misericordia tua subsequetur me
omnibus diebus vitæ meæ;
et ut inhabitem in domo Domini
in longitudinem dierum.
Rest in Peace.
My condolences to his family. May heaven greet him with open arms.
This thread was a train wreck before I got a chance to get in, so I am going in last.
That shit I said about Steve being a top ticking legacy building ego-maniac. I gotta eat those words and say; I was tragically wrong. My bad. I will take my humble pie with a scoop of Häagen-Dazs please.
Sorry Steve. Cynacism got the better of me. It's a tough thing to balance in this world today.
On angels wings my friend; you provided work for so many, education for so many children, and value to so many customers. For these things you have a place in history, not unlike Henry Ford or James Eades before you.
I am not sure what Apple will be like without you behind the scenes. Technology is an artform, just like cooking, just like music. It takes a strong will to make it right; love it or hate it. Your will is gone. Talent like you, well, its fleeting.
You sir, you are a hero. I mean that in every sense possible. Give Elvis a run for his money up there buddy! Elvis will try to pull the Guitar Man on you, just smile and know you smoked his ass. I never owned an iPod and Guitar Man is IMHO the best Elvis there is, but everyone I know has an iPhone and an iPod. And no one loves Elvis anymore.
I am getting old. I like the trees around here more than the people I used to know ...
Regards,
Cooter
Jobs obviously loved his work. His love for his work helped us all and made it easier to communicate The Love among us. I thank our Father in Christ for the gift of life, and the revelation of the sustaining mercy, which is risen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfHnzYEHAow
P.S. I owned an Apple for a day and returned it for another product that had flash, does more and cost less, but, I am sure there are people that communicate their love on an Apple. Lol
One of the few great men of our times. Aloha and Mahalo,.
iDead