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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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Whether you approve of his personality or his labor practices, consider this: What a career! The garage-to-corporation thing. Kicked out by the board and replaced by that Pepsi guy. The NExT cube. And then he comes back! And then Pixar. Then he revolutionizes music. Entrepreneur, promoter, CEO. Any one of these are common. To find all of them in one person is extraordinarily rare. Had he been able to become an exec VP in any one of these enterprises he would have been more successful than the childish clowns on this thread biting the ankle of this giant.
Just saw him, he said i'MBACK!
We Broke the Mold with that one.
The interview made out he wasn't doing it for the money. all the ITUNES bullshit says otherwise
In truth he wasnted to be more monoplistic than Gates
I tunes is a piece of shit and i WILLnever BY AN ipod EVer$ AGAIN
He made a potetnatillay great product commerically crass with It unes
I pods should just be a drag and drop for anyhwere like other file systems but no you have to do it fromn YOUR computer which I am sure he wanted to be an APPLE MAC
I hate commercialisation of any kind and jobs was the worst label man ever.
A greedy c*nt if ever there was one
The zx spectrum changed lives
the internet changed lives
Zerohedge has changed lives
to say Jobs changed lives is just summing up how utterly f*cked our society is
The interview made out he wasn't doing it for the money. all the ITUNES bullshit says otherwise
In truth he wasnted to be more monoplistic than Gates
I tunes is a piece of shit and i WILLnever BY AN ipod EVer$ AGAIN
He made a potetnatillay great product commerically crass with It unes
I pods should just be a drag and drop for anyhwere like other file systems but no you have to do it fromn YOUR computer which I am sure he wanted to be an APPLE MAC
I hate commercialisation of any kind and jobs was the worst label man ever.
A greedy c*nt if ever there was one
The zx spectrum changed lives
the internet changed lives
Zerohedge has changed lives
to say Jobs changed lives is just summing up how utterly f*cked our society is
Apple changed my life. From a piece of monopolistic bug-ridden, virus strangled, crashing junk (Microshite) to something smooth, cool, fast and utterly reliable. From living in a garbage can to living in a Miami Condo in one decision, "I'm going to buy Apple this time."
Apple changed my fiancees life too. As I surfed smoothly and bug-free on my new Apple laptop my girlfriend beat and swore at hers 3 or 4 times a day as it seized-up or crapped-out. I'd bought her a lovely (looking) new Dell laptop in metallic pink with equally beautiful smooth cool silver keyboard. But the beauty was spoiled inside a year of purchase by the pile of incompetent monopolistic fuking junk it was based on: Gates & Bulmer software
So next opportunity (XMas) I suggested I bought her an Apple MacBook. She panicked she'd never learn it. "Honey" I said, "everything on your Microshite is a 2 year copy behind my Apple!". She received her Apple and hardly spoke to me for 3 days she was so in love with it! Then she added iPod and iPhone to her collection.
Apples products make you go 'Wow'. Not only the day you get them, but for every day you live with them. Only BMW can match that pleasure for me amongst all the machinery on the planet.
Jobs is being credited with a massive amount also due to his fellow 'magicians' at Apple but that's the rub of our focus on 1 individual, the leader. But there's no doubt Apple was in a different league when he was at the helm. It was in a completely un-reacheable league when Jobs realised his commercial weaknesses and hunted an Executive from Coka Cola.
When Jobs launched the iPod he said "this is huge". Actually that was a (deliberate) understatement! It was the first assured quietly played baby step of Apples new business plan to become a global giant. They toppled giants off their perches with such cool and consumate ease nobody appreciated the feat for what it was: genius
First Sony... then Microshite, Dell, Hewlett Packard et al... then Nokia, Motorola and thrusting young turk, Blackberry. This was not only amazing innovative fault-free cutting edge software, but cool design, sharp as a tack strategic direction, marketing, business planning and perfect execution. Global giants left absolutely gasping in a matter of a year each in Apples jetstream
Steve Jobs changed lives and changed the business worlds top act to follow: Absolute Genius
Why is this still at the top? "Techno Crack dealer honcho, psychic dildo maker finally dies!"
The toy pedlar is dead. A few hundred thousand Chinese slaves are free. Big fucking deal.
ignorance must be bliss for you yes?
Another fan boy? Pathetic. Poor souls who live their life through others. I suppose it is the natural submissive nature of the gamma male.
truly... pathetic, the lows that are reached and breached here today - and true evidence that America has reached it's 'fearful apotheosis'; where shitting on one's own, and speaking ill of the dead are considered confirmation of one's 'alpha male' status....
even your simian forebears knew better what lines not to cross, by mere instinct.
You are a monument to cultural and ethnic devolution...enjoy your last days in the glue factory misanthrope boy
Joyful - i think today in this thread has been eluminating... we've had just about every ZH troll jump out from under their rocks and exposed themselves in this Steve Jobs spoiler campaign
Gates & Bulmer sure have alot of troll trash on their payroll.. unfortunately no amount of spoiling can shine their decades of dropping turds on the global computer industry.. the unmitigated garbage that is Windows 7 is a crowning achievement in their career of producing nothing but absolute fuking crap
Jobs has never looked better ...make Troll notes ;)
you know it Bro - I used to be afeared of getting thumbs down here on ZH...cramped my style....yesterday was Liberation Day...the Sunstein crew must have planted most of these folks months ago to wait for the perfect opportunity to play their card.
Well, shure nuff, they showed their hand! Drag each and every icon of productive life into the ground. Collect gubbernment paycheck. Every negative an endorsement of the acuity of one's perception.
Tell the truth, without fear or hesitation, the temple will fall! Steve won, cause he refused to lose. Losers will never get it. That's All Folks!
It's a sad day when we lose a man (despite being a bit of an asshole) whose vision has changed all of our lives. Truly sad indeed. May the next dimension let your light shine even brighter, Steve.
Jobs/Apple bigger genius than Lennon/Apple.
Gone but never forgotten, unlike 99.9% of us in the peanut gallery.
A genius who was relentless in his quest.
Rest in peace.
Didn't really know how I felt about this event until I read the comments here: it's creepy how Amerika is now divided into haters and idolizers - no middle ground...no common denominator...just fling whatever shit comes to hand.
Jobs made some sweet stuff happen...he may have had to kiss the Devils' ass to to make it 'profitable.' Nothing new under the Sun...Jack Parsons did the same thing, 40 years before him...same ol same ol...but the true measure of the man would be to compare him to ROY ASH...the self made American entrepeneur of the 60's who bullshitted himself into a conglomerate of companies which leveraged him into a political position in DC, and a lock hold on public R&D funding....
that resulted in Litton, Ft. Detrick MD, bioweaponry - & the first overt coalition of industry, military, and state, which under the guidance of Robert Gallo developed the AIDS virus, made millions of Africans sick, then dead, then worse than dead...and unleashed the magic upon the taxpayin citizens of their own country....
Steve, whatever his demons might have been, in the longer term perspective, DID NO HARM... and those who desecrate his legacy here or elsewhere....WILL GO TO THE SAME PLACE AS ASH AND GALLO BEFORE THEM.
nuff nuff respect SJ.
The next Steve Jobs will be Chinese or Indian.
And the crap you or I cannot live without will be made by US or Euro slaves? Urghh...
That one made me laugh, look at how much the Japanese have invented since the 80´s when similar things were said about them!
Not to be putting down the little brown/yellow man, but their culture is a culture of slaves, not innovation.
For over 2000 years there has only been one culture that is that of innovators and that is the culture of the west. Anyone betting their money on any eastern innovation spree will get burnt worse than the victicms of Cramers "BUY LEHMAN @82" =)
WTF? ... no centerfold? ...
Steve will be remembered as a true genius of our times, he was a hardcore fanatic who worked all the way up to the end. R.I.P Steve.
Once the Steve legacy pipeline clears at Apple we will see a total crumbling of the company, Cook is an accountat and not a visionary, everyone who saw the iphone 4S presentation saw that he tried to mimic Jobs as good as he could, and he tried to walk like Jobs and talk like Jobs, and while he had the gestures and speed of voice down fairly well, he lacked that spark in his eye, and he certainly lacks the taste for products.
And since this is a market website, I will honestly say that I will go all in on this one, I clocked the intel 40% rise after the first core duo processors where released and I will make a ton of money on this one.
After the "Steve J." approved product pipeline is exhausted, Apple will lose more than 80% of it´s market cap! Cook will try to attack this issue with business sense (Think DELL/HP) and maybe keep the ship afloat for an extra year or two. The opportunity here lies in that the investors and the cramers of the world, do not realize the uniqness of Steve Jobs (anyone is a cog that can easily be replaced is the view held by these folks), and thus they do not realize the major impact this will have on Apple.
To be honest it is a sad day for me personally, as I have been a huge apple fanboy for years. But I will do what Steve did best, and that is to make a buck on this abrupt end to a journey.
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Now practically a life companion, his products have enthralled me for twenty five years.
WHat an icon, what a simple man, unassuming and full of vision, passion like we rarely see expressed in objects of aesthetic and functional beauty rarely equalled.
If I had to write him an epitaph it would be this :
You amazed the world with a magical box called Macintosh.
You brought the world into our laps like encyclopedic crystal ball.
You gave us thrills that matched the skills of the greatest novelists.
You wrote a poem that Sinbad would have loved to enact.
You created a lamp that Aladdin would have loved to lit.
Where your flashing scimitar was retrolight screen the size of a man's palm.
Where you made world twirl at the flick of mere finger.
Where we all learned what life is, was, and shall become.
Yet you left us orphans like mere adventurer whose time was up.
A simple tale so simply told, that so richly unfolds for decades to come.
Mark my word, ISBN 978-1451648539 will be hoarded.
Innalillahe Wa innaelaihe Rajeoon. This man was truly an inspiration, will always live in the hearts of true entrepreneurs.
chemotherapy 1 Steve Jobs 0, any doubts yet ?
Don't wanna sound cheap or crass - but anyone know what might have happened to those (what seemed to me at least) brand-new sneakers?
The man produced a cult following for Apple. Cult followings are never a good thing IMO.
Apple is like a McDonalds, or a Disney. American corporatism at its most culturally destructive. Americans have given the world some of the crappiest culture ever in the name of corporatism and pure corporate greed.
Have you ever noticed how iPhone/AppleMac/iPad users in particular are the ones who have to take them to every meeting, every family get together, every meet up in the pub, whatever? Reliance of that kind can't be good for the human race and certainly makes me very angry when I know one ear/one eye is on whatever I have might to say to them and the other is glued to their Apple devices. He obviously understood the ' I've got the latest XXYYZZ album and here it is under my greatcoat, oh it just slipped out' mentality of aspiring plebs the world over. He appealed to everyone with a 12-18 year old mindset, i.e. the ever increasing number of Peter Pans of this world. Genius but ultimately pathetic!
Humans are very easily addicted to useless, pointless, irrelevant shit.
Without this, CONsumer marketz are not even possible.
The smart capitalize on this common trait.
You can call it 'progress' but it's still mere baubles and trinkets for obsessed idiots, no matter what spin and high-minded crapole you dress it up with, or for how long you maintain it's shallow beckoning shimmer and glitter.
It's the very techie meaning of the word petty. It provides the veneer that something grand is happening, and the common idiot always buys into it.
That's to be expected. Otherwise known as; how to make nothing look like something (See Ben Bernanke speaches and FRNs)
So many bitter comments?
Steve Jobs, Wozniak, Ives et al just built some very handy tools.
Probably as powerful weapons for change as the AK-47 in the past century, and maybe the photocopier.
It isn't what they designed that matters, but how people use them.
Now if we could just free up communications from TPTB snoopers, just watch how the world could evolve for the good of the peeple.
Whether you like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, they have made a very big difference.
RIP Mr Jobs, a life very much worth living.
In the years to come, I wish Apple can continue with his legacy and continue to create life changing products, and he'll be always remembered and respected.
RIP Steve.
There are some very bitter people here.
You can slam Jobs over how his products have been used or who manufactures them. You can't dismiss his creative genius or his vision. The former he had very little control over, the latter is his legacy.
It's down to this for the trolls; you can sit on your hands and do nothing thereby insuring no one has anything bad to say about you (stagnation), or you can create and market your ideas in order to profit from them insuring more creation and marketing (growth).
I rarely post comments, but in this case I'm shocked by the overwhelming ignorance displayed. There is plenty of evil out there, but not so much that I lose sight of what good has been done.
Can I slam him for buying a liver?
His death might be seen as symbolic of the death of middle class entrepreneurship?
It won't be too long before Big Corporatist Government destroys this all together.
Nationalization of Tech Sector comes after Nationalization of the Banking and Auto industries right?
Rest in Peace sir, I'm glad you missed whats coming.
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There are also very fawning sycophantic fan-buoy sweet-people comments too ... but how does the one register as superior to the other, within your mind?
Is it even your mind?
The truth is that both are talking unadulterated shit-sandwich.
The Truth tends to discombobulate the needy.
I guess that explains the modest iPhone 4S - flag at half mast due to bereavement.
Steve Woz did mention last summer that he'd consider coming back to Apple, if asked..
BTW: anybody who says Jobs wasn't an innovator is probably too young to remember NeXT.
When Steve's ancestors were mixing mud and straw with their feet for the Pharaoh's bricks.....the Tally man made entries on a papyrus scroll ! You came a long way, Baby, now RIP ! Monedas 2011 Unofficial Spokeshole for the Jewish People and chief proponent of urging Michael Moore to receive Dr. Burzinski's Neoplastons for his incurable Socialist brain tumor !
The wallstreet protesters are just college kids searching for their identity as every generation has since the 60's hippies. This new round of anti-capitalist hate is nothing new, its going nowhere and it has no real clear message other than everyone should make atleast $20 an hour from the janitor to the president. The leaders from these protests will end up in government 20 years from now and be as beholden to special interests as the 60's hippies that now inhabit the government. Same old song and dance with a date of 2011.
there won't be a Govt (monopolist institution) in 20 years ...the experiment failed, miserably ...anybody that can't see what a fuking tragedy this shithole of humanity is needs their head testing (or taken off aka French Revolution style)
Darwins evolutionary process has begun... that total failure Govt is No.1 for the chop
What dipshittery from Let them Eat Rand. He made his products where they could be priced to satisfy the most consumers at a price that was affordable.
Apple was not for me. I generally hated Jobs restrictive ecosystem, so I avoided it.
But I don't knock the guy. He made his money honestly by swapping a quality product for a price people were willing to voluntarily pay. Others like me said NO THANKS.
If only some of the socialistas, like LET THEM EAT RAND, could see this through their own obsessions with socialista fairness.
If Jobs used the government to force people to buy his product in any way, that's wrong. IF it kept competition off his heels, that is wrong.
That's big government hand in hand with big business, the other side of the big government socialist coin.
Socialista types -- that's your attack dog. Time to kill it and try consensual governance.
Did he get his liver honestly?
Much like the Panama Canal, Jobs' liver was stolen fair and square.
he stole it from the Yakuza
Leopold, "I generally hated Jobs restrictive ecosystem, so I avoided it"
So you opted for the closed ecosystem of Gates & Bulmer, that is wide open to every security service and hacker on the planet above 11 years old, plus every virus and has so many bugs in its coding is suicidal when its not being attacked by every MF on the planet
Great decision-making mate!! ..don't call us we'll call you ...........like never
Prayers of comfort to his family, Godspeed.
Sorry. He made computers. That's it.
At best you can say he helped shape broader communication. However, that tool, just like any tool, was given to us human beings. We will and have fucked it up. We will never use it for its greatest potential, because we are humans.
He was not a genius. He was not a god. He was a man with flaws. so are we all.
http://mises.org/daily/5613/Steve-Jobs-and-the-Beautification-of-Capitalism
"The Obama Administration announced the creation of more Shovel-Ready Jobs today..." (sorry, couldn't hold that in anymore. RIP SJ, you were the mind and mentor of a new generation, let's hope it's not wasted on them...)
I piss on the grave of this animal.
Goole Foxconn nets, Foxconn suicides, for fucks sake.
Apple without Steve Jobs is faceless.
Microshite has 2 faces.. Gates and Bulmer... fat and fuking ugly huh?
Apple it is, nice logo too
I had no idea until I turned on my computer and opened ZH (as my morning routine), how many people hated him. He did what America stands for. Work hard make something and brain wash people to beg for it. I can imagine how many people will be happy when this capitalistic empire goes down.
Er, capitalism "goes down" at periods where productivity drops down the toilet.. the reason for productivity plummeting is???
...let me help... monopolies... only free markets (competition) delivers productivity ...our free markets are being strangled by monopolies (monopoly Govt and monopoly families/elites/parasites) using free market intervention (legislated and over-regulated markets)
todays Western World is rammed with unproductive parasites: Big Govt, Big Corporate Monopolies and families (Rothchilds) who destroy productivity and have destroyed every country in the world many times over with the same parasitical vandalism of our freedoms and markets... hence our stinking economies, stretched unemployment cues and stinkingly insane elite
Read your history books mate, not the ones the (monopolistic) State gave you for 'education' hahaha : see French Revolution (monopolistic rich elite hacked away by impoverished poor).. see Russian Revolution (impoverished poor replaced one set of rich elite parasites with another, socialists: big mistake!)... see China, see North Korea, Argentina and home of democratic Govt, Greece (bankrupt 1 day in ever 4 for the past centrury because of Govt parasites)
...all examples of a rich elite bleeding, vandalising and then destroying/bankrupting their country at the expense of free markets and a free people
He was a greedy fuck, that was their marketer. He gave virtually NOTHING to charity or anything else other than his bank account. You won't hear of a "Jobs Foundation" unless one of his relatives create it. I don't remember him ever being a computer genius that actually created the technical parts of a computer. They even stole the mouse from Xerox. He was a marketer, period, and a ruthless one at that. His stuff was always proprietary in an attempt to keep everything for himself, that was one of the reasons that the original Apple had a tough time selling. Every peripheral was included and couldn't be replaced by a third party product. Even the damn iPhone has a battery that can't be taken out. And that goddamn name crap .... (i)everything makes me puke.
Why is it that a person's death always gives people Alzheimer's when it comes to remembering what shits they were? Look at Tim Russert, everyone came out idealizing him when he was mostly just a third rate propaganda hack for TPTB.
Ton Terrific - missed out your middle name, "Troll"
...another peanut brained one that claims Jobs was a 'marketeer' ...go market your peanut brain, see how many job offers you get or see how many large global giants you can topple with marketing peanuts
The legacy of Steve Jobs?
If even 5 years ago anyone had said the US stock markets would make an acquired-taste bijou computer business the largest company in the world, more valuable than any Bank, Insurer, Oil company or Transporter, you would have said not in my lifetime.
Well he did it.
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