Steve Jobs RIP 1955-2011

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Not long before Steve Jobs’ second coming to Apple in 1996 he was giving a talk to The Stanford Graduate School of Business’ High Tech Club at the home of a student. For three hours he sat in the lotus position on the floor in front of the living-room fireplace answering questions good-naturedly. Afterwards, the host, a young MBA candidate named Steve Jurvetson, asked the legendary figure to autograph his Macintosh keyboard which had already been signed by Apple cofounder Steve Woznyak.

Steve Jobs said he’d do it, but only if first he could remove all the unnecessary keys that his successors had added in a foolish effort to make the Mac more like a Microsoft-Intel PC. He despised the long row of so-called function keys (like “F1”) and the cluster of navigational arrow keys which were clunky alternatives to the more intuitive process of using a mouse to explore menus and icons. So Jobs pulled his car keys out of his pocket and began scooping into the computer keyboard, violently disgorging all the keys that offended him. “I’m changing the world one keyboard at a time”, he said with a straight face. Only then when he had mutilated the apparatus, did he take a pen and scribble his autograph on it.

stories like this always remind me of the zen assholes thread.

I am old enough to remember not having computers AT ALL, and I cannot imagine living a life without them.

speaking of ceo/founder deaths, i have to admit that when glen "taco" bell died in 2010 i shed a tear.

kinda miffed that steve jobs gets his own thread but the guy who invented doritos only gets a threadbump.

also anyone saying they could "live without computers" should just put their money where their mouth is and grow a ted kaczynski beard already

notice i didn't say "computers"

i still think you secretly want to grow that beard

i think i could live without doritos, if cool ranch could be transferred to another snack.

its more the concept of 'cool ranch' that im into

at my orientation on the first day of college they told us what buildings the unabomber was targeting

guys the dorito guy just ripped off cool ranch from the r&d department at pringles

does pringles have prior art they can show?

marco arment: http://www.marco.org/2011/10/05/steve-jobs-dies

who is markers arment

and markers... how is it that you haven't posted... you know

otm

can't believe sarah palin and steve jobs died on the same day--what are the odds

100%

guys sarah palin just stole her personality from the r&d department at omni consumer products

Yah, she ran on iOS 3.0, was really time for her to go.

obama: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/10/05/president-obama-passing-steve-jobs-he-changed-way-each-us-sees-world

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― markers, Wednesday, October 5, 2011 9:45 PM (14 seconds ago) Bookmark

kinda bewildered at all this tbh

kinda bewildered at how you're communicating with us via telegraph tbh

The only Apple product I've ever owned was a used Mac in the '90s. But when I heard this news on the way home tonight, I totally understood its import, and knew I'd take 10 minutes tomorrow morning talking about him with my students.

<3

tim cook: http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/10/05Apple-Media-Advisory.html

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sergey brin: https://plus.google.com/109813896768294978296/posts/dwmWyNSoXTh

walt mossberg: http://allthingsd.com/20111005/the-steve-jobs-i-knew/

that photo is awesome

Apple IIc manual

read mossberg's piece btw

i am doing so atm and it has some good stuff in there

Jobs is a perfect example of a guy whose products I use every day but about whose life and accomplishments I know nothing. I wouldn't even have known his name until a couple of years ago.

Which means I need to read a few good obits.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMU0tzLwhbE

― The sham nation of Israel should be destroyed. (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 6 October 2011 01:25

lmao

To my knowledge, the only tech conference Steve Jobs regularly appeared at, the only event he didn’t somehow control, was our All Things Digital conferences, where he appeared repeatedly for unrehearsed, onstage interviews. We had one rule that really bothered him: we never allowed slides, which were his main presentation tool.

One year, about an hour before his appearance, I was informed that he was backstage preparing dozens of slides, even though I had reminded him a week earlier of the no-slides policy. I asked two of his top aides to tell him he couldn’t use the slides, but they each said they couldn’t do it, that I had to. So I went backstage and told him the slides were out. Famously prickly, he could have stormed out, refused to go on. And he did try to argue with me. But, when I insisted, he just said “OK.” And he went on stage without them, and was, as usual, the audience’s favorite speaker.

For our fifth D Conference, both Steve and his longtime rival, the brilliant Bill Gates, surprisingly agreed to a joint appearance, their first extended onstage joint interview ever. But it almost got derailed.
Earlier in the day, before Gates arrived, I did a solo onstage interview with Jobs, and asked him what it was like to be a major Windows developer, since Apple’s iTunes program was by then installed on hundreds of millions of Windows PC. He quipped: “It’s like giving a glass of ice water to someone in Hell.” When Gates later arrived and heard about the comment, he was, naturally, enraged, because my partner Kara Swisher and I had assured both men that we hoped to keep the joint session on a high plane.

In a pre-interview meeting, Gates said to Jobs “so I guess I’m the representative from Hell.” Jobs merely handed Gates a cold bottle of water he was carrying. The tension was broken, and the interview was a triumph, with both men acting like statesmen. When it was over, the audience rose in a standing ovation, some of them in tears.

looool

alright, yeah, read mossberg's piece y'all

this is how i learned

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Ha! One of my friends got her news from Weezy too.

steve ballmer: http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2011/oct11/10-05statement.mspx

WOW, that IIc manual!!

So his mausoleum will be bang in the middle of his new spaceship, right?

SalmanRushdie Salman Rushdie
I have been in love with the world Steve Jobs made ever since my first Apple Mac. He was one of the great architects of the real. RIP.
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The fact that this ever needed to be illustrated.

RIP

assuming it eventually comes out, i'm interested in knowing how he spent his last few months, like whether or not he was trying out experimental treatments & what not

his official bio, which he was interviewed something like 40 times for, is out next month, so some of that might be in there