Steve Jobs RIP 1955-2011

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?

zuckerberg: http://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10100100934727791

i know bill is making some grand philanthropic efforts, but a world without windows is a better world, though. iphone world definitely beats ham radio britannica world.

steve jobs is dead and chuck berry's still alive. that's kind of weird to me.

xxxpost a little tasteless, sorry

If you want to criticize a western corporation for manufacturing on the cheap in Asia, get in line. No reason to hash it out in this particular thread, though. many xps

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http://searchenginewatch.com/utils/icache/imgurl/300_225/c/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcms.searchenginewatch.com%2FIMG%2F650%2F173650%2Fchevy-chase-jpg.jpg%3F1304539002&image.jpg

more like overseas jobs

"efforts" doesnt really cover the extent of the bill & melinda gates foundation

i know bill is making some grand philanthropic efforts, but a world without windows is a better world,

The existence of windows is what keeps a roof over my head, so fuck that noise.

<3

http://www.pitchfork.com/news/44218-rip-steve-jobs/

If you want to criticize a western corporation for manufacturing on the cheap in Asia, get in line. No reason to hash it out in this particular thread, though. many xps

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, October 5, 2011 7:50 PM (32 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

what exactly is your problem with my mentioning this stuff on this thread? it helps to keep things in perspective. maybe i'm being a horrible troll without realizing it. if so, i sincerely apologize. but it seems that apple's business practices are as much a part of jobs's legacy as the GUI or the iphone or whatever. at least they would be in a rational analysis.

I don't think amst. has risen to the level of assholism itt, for what it's worth.

but it's apple factories w/ the high suicide rate, not nike factories

amateurist killin it

RIP, guy who developed stuff I don't use

Apple's manufacturing processes are often as deplorable as anyone else's, but the company didn't start that way and it's clear that Jobs has just been an idea man and figurehead for many many years. Putting that yoke around a dead man's neck seems unfair.

Bert Jansch is to Steve Jobs as Sky Saxon is to Michael Jackson.

As someone who's been called out on RIP threads before, I'll defend amateurist: what better place to evaluate a man's legacy without being nasty about it?

rip

even tho he was very ill, this is still weird and stunning