Steve Jobs RIP 1955-2011

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

<3 <3 <3

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.

"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."

it's the kind of thing a guy with a personal fortune can afford to say/think.

also yeah, fuck cancer. the stanford speech is moving despite the cant.

I dont get ppls distaste at that quote. It doesnt have to imply "go out and change the world", its about personal achievement in whatever form, jeez.

Unless all buddhists are wealthy or I donno.

XP

in that world my aspie cousins are hooked on ham radio instead of farmville, kids plagiarize the encyclopedia instead of google, and i have a walkman and maps in my glove compartment

and a thinkpad in my backpack

ILX rip threads always draw assholes. Didn't expect this one to be different.

And me being me, I muttered a bit.

^ good words

mad respect for this dude, RIP.

assholes? who's being an asshole?

Not you.

yeah i didn't think so either

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/steve-jobs-dead-apple-confirms-former-ceo-loses-fight-20111006-1lag8.html

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like when bill gates dies is it okay to say windows wasn't such a big deal that he deserved forty billion dollars?

Who says Bill Gates is ever going to die?

sorry if anyone thinks i'm being an asshole. a guy died and that's sad. people like apple and i know it. i like their products too. but they are consumer products, designed to be obsolescent after a few years and manufactured by cheap labor in asia.

this thread doesn't exist because jobs was a nice guy we all knew. it exists because jobs was a public figure, who was an important part of a company that has had a big effect on the way we live our lives. so the nature of his legacy seems like exactly the thing to be talking about.

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/steve-jobs-dead-apple-confirms-former-ceo-loses-fight-20111006-1lag8.html

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― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Thursday, 6 October 2011 00:45 (4 seconds ago) Bookmark

Steve Jobs still dead! Pictures at ten

honestly unless the thread is just one endless "RIP Steve Jobs" what else are we going to talk about? how my MacBook shuts down sometimes when it's supposed to just go to sleep?