Steve Jobs RIP 1955-2011

thanks! xp

I keep forgetting about Pixar as well, they've got a tribute up:

http://www.pixar.com/

and this is just the big 4. smaller labels, retail chains, and mid-level artists have all taken huge hits to their incomes. this is not "reactionary whining" it is a fact.

k, no worries

LOL

http://www.regretsy.com/2011/10/07/healing-through-tragicrafting-steve-jobs-edition/

I'm friends with the author of that op-ed piece, and his FBook status update is "Received my first sincere, legitimate death threat today."

I keep forgetting about Pixar as well, they've got a tribute up:

http://www.pixar.com/

― Ned Raggett, Friday, October 7, 2011 7:17 PM

yo thanks for the heads up -- i hadn't seen that yet

(sincerely hadn't seen that yet, surprisingly)

love that picture too

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/10/steve-jobs-new-yorker-cover.html?currentPage=all

New Yorker readers trying to be funny in the comments section is soul-crushing

I think heaven uses Flash ;)
I think heaven uses Flash ;)
I think heaven uses Flash ;)
I think heaven uses Flash ;)
I think heaven uses Flash ;)

Apple Talked to City's Police Days Before Steve Jobs's Death

Karen Gullo, ©2011 Bloomberg News

Oct. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc. security officials met with police in Palo Alto, California, this week to notify them that Steve Jobs was close to death, a spokeswoman with the police department said.

Following the meeting, the police devised a plan to put patrols in the area around the former Apple chief executive officer's Palo Alto home once they heard from the company that he had died, according to Sandra Brown, the spokeswoman.

The Apple representatives told the police department there was "a possibility that it could happen this week," Brown said in a phone interview. "It's common sense for us to work together. If you think about who he was and his contribution to the world, people might come out in masses."

Jobs, who resigned as Apple's CEO on Aug. 24, died Oct. 5, the Cupertino, California-based company said. Jobs, 56, had been diagnosed in 2003 with a neuroendocrine tumor, a rare form of pancreatic cancer, and underwent a liver transplant in 2009. Apple unveiled the latest version of its iPhone, the product that accounts for almost half of the company's sales, on Oct. 4, the day before his death.

Steve Dowling, an Apple spokesman, declined to comment about the police meeting.

Jobs lived in a home that was modest, for a person of his means, on a public street open to pedestrians and traffic. The extra patrols were necessary for safety reasons, Brown said.

'"There are other people here in town, they have compounds and walls," said Brown. "He didn't want to have security around."

Apple was supposed to inform the police of Jobs's death before making a public announcement so the department could prepare, said Brown. Instead, police learned he had died when the company issued a press release at about 4:30 p.m. local time on Oct. 5.

As it turned out, Brown said, only about 40 people showed up around Jobs's home that day.

"Here's a guy who's a billionaire and lives in a regular neighborhood, not behind a gated estate with all the security guards," said Bruce Gee, a former Apple employee who drove up from his home a couple miles away. "On Halloween, people go trick or treating there like everyone else."

Mourners gathered at Apple stores around the world and took to the Internet and social media to express their grief.

At the San Francisco Apple store near Union Square, Steve Streza, 24, stood holding an iPad displaying Apple's homepage image of Jobs and the words "Steve Jobs: 1955-2011."

"Macs were the reason I got into product development," said Streza, a developer at readitlater.com who grew up with Mac computers. "If it weren't for Steve Jobs and Macs, my life would probably be in a completely different place right now."

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/10/06/bloomberg_articlesLSOFTS6K50XX.DTL#ixzz1aC1QqKr2

This is great. A smelly 18-year-old Jobs gets a job at Atari, and nobody can bear to work with him, but they don't want to lose him either so they create a nightshift. He's the only one who works it: http://gamasutra.com/view/news/37762/Steve_Jobs_Atari_Employee_Number_40.php

saw lots of candles, flowers, little shrines (with actual apples, photos of Jobs, etc), hundreds of handwritten notes, & lots of weepy looking people in front of the apple store on 14th St in Manhattan last night

people need to get a grip

people be lovin their ipads i guess.

weird as somehow who has been using apple products since 1983/84 (still have a photo of me opening the box to my 1st apple iie) i should be first in line, but i dunno the deification of this complex dude seems deeply suspect.

deification of anyone is always suspect imo

I tried to convince you all but no.

Talkin' about you or Steve Jobs?

Me of course. *self-genuflects*

surprising that it didn't leak out how close he was to death

sorta figured the answer was "pretty close" when he resigned, but one does not like to attract the Evil Eye by saying such things

i don't know if this is the right time and place to say so, but i heard from a friend who's friend worked as his pa for about 6 months (source was actual first name basis friends with the pa himself, so genuine 2nd gen silicon valley network info iirc) that he was extremely hard to work with.

on the other hand, osx, iphones, pixar, personal computers even... maybe i kinda don't care if he was hard to get along with. dude contributed some real genius to the world, and it's appreciated. RIP.

i hope the bioflick captures some of that dichotomy though, it would make the story more interesting. and frankly, genius-world-changers are kinda entitled to a bit of a pass on the social graces thing imho.

nah, he's rotting in hell next to mother theresa and pol pot

wired: "As a child of the sixties who was nurtured in Silicon Valley, his career merged the two strains in a way that reimagined business itself. And he did it as if he didn’t give a damn who he pissed off. He could bully underlings and corporate giants with the same contempt. But when he chose to charm, he was almost irresistible."

seriously, it's always nicer when our geniuses are personable, but... dude. toy story! ipods! etc etc

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zUIjFxR_jYg/To4BJdSL-aI/AAAAAAAADDk/4LvXshQ78C4/s640/Steve+Jobs.jpg

as opposed to hp toshiba etc?

more from wired: "Jobs also took LSD in those years, and would claim that those experiences affected his outlook permanently and positively"

him and bill gates both!

idk about you guys but isn't it kind of convenient that he died just when these wall street protests are making headlines?

Steve Jobs. Jobs Vets ET. Votes Jebs...hmmm

Apple Iphone

Help A Popin

Who is this mysterious A. Popin?

oh wait HELP A POPE IN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELQ26lo0AP8

stop drinking

don't you mean "drink different"

think different, stop using adverbs

It's amazing how sticky "Think Different" has been, for a shortish campaign in 97. You'd think it was hammered home for decades, like "Just Do It".

since this is the thread where it's getting the most play, good overview of apple's environmental harms in china

http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/4561

In her letter, Beinecke reminded Cook of the large number of problems listed in the IPE report – problems which need urgent attention. Examples include factories “chronically out of compliance” with environmental regulations, with as many as 10 or more violations; factories discharging toxic metals such as copper and nickel at levels that breach international safety standards; factories ignoring the health concerns of local communities; and problems with disposal of hazardous waste.

She stressed that the IPE report and Apple’s own audits had reached the same conclusion. According to “Apple’s Supplier Responsibility 2011 Progress Report”, many suppliers were found to be in severe breach of environmental laws – 80 of 127 factories had not properly stored or handled hazardous chemicals; 41 did not recycle or dispose of hazardous waste properly or as required by law; 37 did not monitor and control air emissions, and more than 10 had wastewater problems; 63 did not have the permits required by government authorities, including approval of their environmental impact assessments.

...

Beinecke pointed out that a crucial and prominent failing in Apple’s existing policies is that they focus on auditing tier one – final assembly – suppliers. “Although this step in the supply chain is often labour-heavy, it seldom is where the largest environmental footprint in the supply chain lies,” she wrote in her letter to Cook. On the contrary, tier two and tier three suppliers, the companies that manufacture components such as printed circuit boards (PCBs), are where many of the environmental problems have been found.

One supplier, who preferred to remain anonymous, told National Business Daily that the high density PCBs used in iPhones and iPads require a lot of power and water to manufacture, as well as large quantities of chemicals for etching the laminate. The process results in large quantities of air and water pollution, and environmental violations can easily occur.

Apple's report is here: http://images.apple.com/supplierresponsibility/pdf/Apple_SR_2011_Progress_Report.pdf

b-b-but they look so SLEEK!

btw i have to admit that apple's coopting of einstein mandela etc etc for that campaign was pretty fucking gross

http://vimeo.com/27982653

excerpt from a documentary about foxconn workers.

conditions at foxconn not quite as bad as the media made it out to be. but still heartbreaking. I can't quite bring myself to condemn foxconn. life is hard, terrible in China if you are poor.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/09/livelikesteve/

lol, I assume that includes being rude to people and rejecting philanthropy

holding public philanthropy up as an absolute necessity kind of devalues the concept, dontcha think?

joeks bruv

twitter is a treat

Just signed up for a small race next year #LiveLikeSteve http://ironmanlouisville.com/

Live like Steve "Ironman" Jobs

trying to make 800 billion dollars #livelikestevejobs

Going to eat a double-choc McFlurry this afternoon #LiveLikeSteve

tbf i'm not engaging in a catchall defence of jobs, just musing on philantropy tbh

i just clicked over to my open itunes window #livelikestevejobs

dmac, fwiw I made clear my distaste for BRAGGIN public philanthropy upthread

nah i might just start a philanthopy thread, take the whole discussion somewhere new and fresh and amazing

#livelikesteve

eating fish atm #livelikesteve

just told my employees they should all fucking hate each other #livelikesteve

Don't wear jerseys, I'm 30-plus
Gimme a crisp pair of jeans, nigga button up
#livelikestevefromthewaistdown