Steve Jobs RIP 1955-2011

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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.

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"

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 6 October 2011 11:20 (45 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Fair point, but this guy was arguably more Edison than Edison. At the very least it's a notable death.

no argument there! i think a fair analysis of jobs would be more charitable than i'm being.

"toys" is OTM

gruber keeps revising his post, but: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/10/05/steve

Does Gruber have a reason to live now?

I mean he has a wife and kids

so don't be flip

jobs is amazing to me as a story of corporate resurrection,l ... ipods / ipads / iphones have changed the world, but in a meaningful and positive way? bit of a stretch, i think.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/06/business/steve-jobs-of-apple-dies-at-56.html?pagewanted=all

meaningful and positive

"ipods / ipads / iphones have changed the world, but in a meaningful and positive way?"

yeah, open to debate

like i wonder if kary mullis will receive this level of attention when he dies

MobileMe has gone down in tribute.

"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 terrible advice. On the other hand, Jobs helped the folks at Apple make a lot of products I really like and that I use every day, and he always seemed to me to have managed to balance on that unstable, wobbly point midway between "who needs a new-fangled gadget?" and "follow me to the techno-utopia that starts next tuesday, whole world will be altered"

http://allthingsd.com/20111005/bill-gates-i-will-miss-steve-immensely/

For those of us lucky enough to get to work with him, it’s been an insanely great honor

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love that

maybe that's just how the world works, every one knows Henry ford and lee iacocca and maybe tucker but what about daimler? benini? and barnett?

fuck cancer you guys

― ilx user 'silby' (silby), Thursday, 6 October 2011 00:03 (33 minutes ago) Bookmark

"ipods / ipads / iphones have changed the world, but in a meaningful and positive way?"

sometimes you have to envision a world where obama didn't win to appreciate obama.

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