Steve Jobs RIP 1955-2011

Jjj otm. Shouldn't feel as sad as it does. RIP.

*bites tongue*

i mean RIP obviously, ilu and everything your company makes mr. jobs (xpost)

RIP. An amazing aesthetic and business life.

CBS just cut in for special report. Woah at that first Mac ad with the sledgehammer through the screen.

takin' them New Balance shoes to Buddhist iHeaven

RIP Big Guy.

See, I don't get the sad thing (I rarely do with celebrity deaths), but I totally get the momentous thing.

(a few xposts)

willy wonka :(

emil.y otm

See, I don't get the sad thing (I rarely do with celebrity deaths), but I totally get the momentous thing.

I agree with this btw. xp

RIP

also, might be symbolic

Sad as hell (and way too early, obviously) but this dude racked up far more than a lifetime's worth of world-changing achievements. Hopefully the overwhelming tragedy of all this is balanced by just how much he got done.

Wow. A good deal of my friends here have worked under him in some capacity, so this is so weird. RIP

this was hardly unforseen but it seems really momentous to me in a way that few celeb deaths really do, RIP

otm

the world in which I live & the world in which I work bear evidence of his importance - literally every day I'm doing stuff I'd be doing differently had he not lived. also, cancer is a fucking brutal horrible thing and this guy should have lived a lot longer so that's salt in the wound.

Yeah prob not sad, but R6 have been banging the John Peel drum for a while and this was just thing to set me off. I want to go and watch Toy Story now tbh.

rip

if you think about it, his final genius act on earth was taking palin out of the news cycle

speechless

sent from my iPad ):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

<3 <3 <3

might be the beginning of the end for Apple, too.

fuck cancer you guys

RIP

i'm planning on buying my first ever apple laptop soon. RIP

rip

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljhqxelrIO1qam384o1_500.jpg

Where I'm sitting I can count 6 apple devices. At least he probably had a pretty good life living off of my paycheck. RIP.

"If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

This is so so worth meditating on, always. Death really sharpens the perspective.

i dunno, like most major multinationals apple got rich by manufacturing its products in places where workers are paid shit and don't have rights. i guess we're in the realm of the contradicions of capitalism here.

i feel like the sleekness/minimalist design/logic of personal "productivity" with which jobs so astutely worked to associate apple has kind of shielded apple partisans from recognizing that apple is as implicated in the realities of global exploitation as much or more than the next corporation.

i mean jobs seems real interesting and important and stuff but people seem to be treating him like he won the nobel prize or something

might be the beginning of the end for Apple, too.

― nostormo, Wednesday, October 5, 2011 7:01 PM (7 minutes ago)

I'd like to know what orifice you're pulling this out of, but not on this thread. Maybe over here...? New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

also following your heart not always the best idea

agree the stuff he says in that speech seems like the same old "carp diem" graduation-speech mush.

a wife and three kids, and the youngest is 13. and that's the sad thing here.

carpE

xpost

yes

http://www.classymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/sad-mac1.gif

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rco9xujjAak

wow, the guardian has gone for an extraordinarily grudging opening to the second par of its obituary:

The iPod, iPhone and iPad were all relatively late to market, were expensive, and, in their initial versions, lacked important features.

a bit lacking in vision, or perspective.

amateurist pretty otm.

"Massively Successful Person Tells a Bunch of Mediocre College Graduates to Follow Their Dreams, Seize the Day," News at 11.

:-(

apple.com looks very tasteful at the moment

simple black and white, minimalist

RIP

mediocre? that's stanford!

"people seem to be treating him like he won the nobel prize or something"
to be fair, there are probably actual nobel laureates who aren't as deserving.

i know, i'm fooling a bit. i dunno i guess i'm a bit skeptical of the "well i followed my dream and it made me a very very rich man, so you should just go ahead and do whatever comes into your head each day"

Although PARC invented it, Xerox let the GUI/mouse interface gather dust on a shelf. Jobs brought the GUI to the masses with the original Macintosh. For that alone he deserves tremendous recognition. I get the idea he was much more excited about bringing cool toys to life than he was about money. RIP.

My entire professional life has pretty much been attached like a remora fish to Apple so I've always been hoping for the day when Jobs would mercilessly pick apart some software I authored. Sorta like having the honor of being defeated by a samurai master.

sorry to get all trolly, apple has made some visionary products etc. and he seemed like a nice if kind of pompous guy and it's sad that anyone should die leaving a young family behind.

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As you may have read by now, the radio program This American Life—which aired a segment of Mike Daisey’s theatre monologue The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs—has retracted the story due to what it calls fabrications in Mike’s tale. We wanted to let you know that The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs will run at Woolly Mammoth as planned from July 17-August 5, 2012.

there's a big talk about this on the this american life c/d thread

http://l.yimg.com/cv/ae/us/audience/120319/300x250lkledw9xw.jpg

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http://static8.businessinsider.com/image/4f747d98ecad045f51000029/steve-jobs.jpg

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-03-29/apple-s-war-on-android

http://i.imgur.com/12NLh.jpg

chance i'll actually end up watching the movie too

revenge of the nerds

actually, young jobs REALLY looks like a young howe gelb

http://i.imgur.com/OnLAr.jpg

The only thing I see now is that disgusting foot.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504803_162-57584072-10391709/bill-gates-on-steve-jobs-we-grew-up-together/

Trailer looks bad

http://youtu.be/SH1jKZwcS9Y

yeah i'm guessing the sorkin one is going to be "better"

What I'm getting from that trailer is that Steve Jobs was a big fan of pussy.

THE ORIGINAL REBEL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR6yMl2FZSQ

1:59 y'all

PLUS: MACKLEMORE

lol @ Josh Gad as Wozniak

Also I'm experiencing cognitive dissonance with "Can't Hold Us" in the trailer for a Steve Jobs biopic, since my primary association with that song is the Windows commercials that it scores.

they're reclaiming macklemore!

they should just redo this and leave it at that: http://www.tubechop.com/watch/1371446

Hah "It only takes one person to start a revolution".

Yeah Steve Jobs should've ditched that loser Wozniak guy, amiright?

i think so

I'd watch the Rifftrax version of it with suitable chemical augmentation.

that christian bale meltdown on the set of terminator convinced me he's the one who should have had this role.

are you implying you are not fully satisfied with their choice of ashton kutcher??

Sorkin/Fincher, bevare

http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/david-fincher-in-early-talks-to-re-team-with-aaron-sorkin-for-steve-jobs-biopic

wow this movie has the potential to be even more boring and less cinematic than The Social Network!!

how was The Social Network not cinematic? did you want car chases?

yes. yes i did.

Lol

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/24/ex-iphone/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

Mr. Jobs was notorious for throwing his weight around however he could. One person on the iPhone design team was also named Steve, which caused some confusion in meetings. Mr. Jobs sought to change this.

“At some point Steve Jobs got really frustrated with this and said ‘Guess what, you’re Margaret from now on,’” Mr. Tolmasky said. From there on, members of the team would always address the designer Steve as Margaret.

haven't gotten around to reading that yet, but good story

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/03/business/steve-jobs-a-genius-at-pushing-boundaries-too.html?hp&_r=0