Steve Jobs RIP 1955-2011

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

http://i.imgur.com/aNrla.png

― 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

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

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

http://i.imgur.com/KiVvm.png

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.
7 minutes ago

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/47/136114411_539b143e74_z.jpg

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

"official" isn't the right word . . . what will become the canonical bio is out next month

of the real.

read this as 'on the real' initially

so I guess now we know for sure why the biography was brought forward nine months

nobody posted death notices on facebook when henry ford died

TimDraper
Tim Draper
With the possible exception of George Washington, Dung Chow Ping and Columbus, we lost the greatest man that lived on the planet today.
5 minutes ago

huge lol @ dung chow ping

woooow

i wonder what mow say tong would think of that

lol wut

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/Tim_Draper.jpg

ABigBagOfKeys Ultimate Fear Spider
what is brostep. steve jobs could have told me… sigh
1 minute ago

Not only am I old enough to recall a time when the personal computer did not exist, I am about a year older than Steve Jobs was. The Apple II was a major inflection point in 20th century life. I saw it happen. It was huge.

I hope Tim Draper is an NBA player