Steve Jobs RIP 1955-2011

For most first-world people I don't think there's any getting away with the "Jobso didn't change my life in some way" line.

the top 30 stories on my facebook are all about steve jobs.

i am sorry, i'm gonna change my mind and join amateurist here. this is friggin' absurd.

mine r all abt #occupywallst

Compared to Sarah Palin and her media presence, memorializing Steve Jobs death at 56 is not friggin' absurd.

well, at least there's humor value in that

the top 30 stories on my facebook are all about steve jobs.

So 30 different people are dealing with the news on a personal level. That you perceive it to be overkill is your own problem.

RealSoonYi Soon-Yi Previn
rip Steve job
22 seconds ago

satan's poking his bony ass with double pitchforks right now

Exchange between two F'book friends:

"Maybe Steve Jobs' death will inspire the young Wall Street protesters the same way Judy Garland's death inspired the Stonewall drag queens."

"Maybe it will inspire people to go out and take a walk"

lmao

oh soon-yi no

SE>LCII>Duo>Duo>Centris 660AV>PowerMac G3>Powerbook G3>Power Book G4> Couple of MacBook Pros>Mac Mini+MacBook Air+iPhone

Add a work owned Dell, Samsung and Lenovo (plus a dim and distant Acorn Electron) and you have my computing life. Dominated by products Jobs had a hand in (Centris was pretty awful but was from the wilderness years).

A truly unique man; created a business that could sustain hardware margins in a cut-throat race to the bottom. Software gave people a reason to keep buying the hardware. I've always said that the Mac was the best copy protection dongle, Steve never seemed to care if your Final Cut was hacked because Apple made money on the hardware. Later on Apple seemed to work out a way of making money everywhere from a slavish devotion to network effects and not being first or most advanced but by providing "it just works".

A truly great man.

So 30 different people are dealing with the news on a personal level. That you perceive it to be overkill is your own problem.

Right, thanks.

ONCE AGAIN STEVE JOBS AINT DEAD!!!!!!! IM SMOKIN A FAT ASS KUSH JOINT RIGHT NOW!!!!!!

Oh man, Charles Napier died too.

That'll be a fun party at the pearly gates

http://trialx.com/curetalk/wp-content/blogs.dir/7/files/2011/04/gcelebrities/Charles_Napier-3.jpg

Start a new RIP thread, remy.

http://www.google.com/

the napier news definitely hit me harder

Sporadic cheering and celebrations were reported throughout mainland China earlier today, following news that former Apple CEO Steve Jobs had passed away.

ricky_martin Ricky Martin
Adam and Eve's, Newton's, Steve Jobs's #WORLDCHANGINAPPLES

lol

"My heart weeps for all who worked with Steve and who loved him, especially my friend Laurene and their children," wrote Maria Shriver. "I'm so happy that I knew him and was so blessed by his friendship. He impacted all of our lives and changed the world. I'm going to turn off my Apple computer, iPhone and iPad tonight at 8pm and honor Steve with a moment of digital silence. Will you join me?

jesus lady

Jesus with money

never forget

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VjiB9NmK-4

http://thewirecutter.com/2011/10/steve-jobs-was-always-kind-to-me-or-regrets-of-an-asshole/

melissakchan Melissa Chan
Oh my. Just passed by white flowers, messages in memory of Jobs outside the Apple store here in Beijing.
3 minutes ago

the top 30 stories on my facebook are all about steve jobs.

So 30 different people are dealing with the news on a personal level. That you perceive it to be overkill is your own problem.

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, October 5, 2011 10:41 PM (29 minutes ago)

lol dude u seem upset

chagina apples?

steve jobs never gave a dime to charity except for 250k to the dems to fund lobbyists so his "suicide factories" in asia could remain up. now he's literally in hell, where he can never again yell at another lackey for bringing him his soy latte in the wrong type of container. this is a net good for the world

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remember how literally hours ago everyone on the internet was shitting their pants trying to hate corporations more than everyone else? lol. all corporations are evil except ones that make little glass boxes that look like weezer!

Eh, I'm not even particularly an Apple stan, but I've always kind of had the guy up on a pedestal for what he was accomplishing and how he went about it. Before that it was Alex Chilton. Morbs probably remembers busting my balls about Tim Russert's death, because I was unexpectedly upset about that one too (not so much because of Russert himself, but what he'd inspired me to do...go back to school, get a degree in video production, etc). Before that, it was John Peel. I kind of never know I'm going to be affected more deeply than usual by some personality's death until that time comes. xps

Just re the suicides in Apple's factories, afaik Apple did more than most companies to enforce standards of human decency in those factories. Not saying it's the best they could have done but it's better than most actually do.

As far as I know the factory suicides had a lot to do with life insurance policies and not much to do with workers driven to despair by the living hell of electronics manufacture.

Cheap labour is why there's a burgeoning middle class in so many developing countries. In places like India and China it's now possible for more people to achieve a relatively decent standard of living. I'm not attributing this to Jobs btw. And before I get attacked, understand that this is merely a counterpoint; there's no black & white when it comes to the effects of industry in developing countries.

^^^thank you Autumn Almanac. Ppl have some pretty broad brush ideas abt China itt.

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

no, because windows is why the gates foundation exists. i'm a 100% apple stan and recognize that jobs was an important dude but gates is arguably one of the most important philanthropists of oh i dunno the last century. i am perfectly happy to have a world with windows 7 if it means we get the gates foundation

the first thing I thought of when I heard this is that a bunch of people's halloween ideas just got way easier to come up with

remember when steve jobs bought a house in tennessee just so he could steal a liver from the state and leave the poors to die

lol my facebook just literally says "25 people posted about Steve Jobs"

can't believe I only have two friends who posted tamtam level shit

steve jobs never gave a dime to charity except for 250k to the dems to fund lobbyists so his "suicide factories" in asia could remain up.

Dangerous ground. There's every chance he secretly gave loads to charity, an action which imo is far more laudable than telling everyone how incredibly generous you are.

There are eight levels of tzedaka, each greater than the next. … [Second] is the one who gives tzedaka to the poor, but does not know to whom he gives, nor does the recipient know his benefactor. For this is performing a mitzva for the sake of Heaven. This is like the Secret [Anonymous] Office in the Temple. There the righteous gave secretly, and the good poor drew sustenance anonymously. This is much like giving tzedaka through a tzedaka box. One should not put into the box unless he knows that the one responsible for the box is faithful and wise and a proper leader like Rabbi Hananya ben Teradyon.

Fuckin Maimonides

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/08/29/the-mystery-of-steve-jobss-public-giving/

(There has long been speculation that an anonymous $150 million donation to the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California, San Francisco may have come from Mr. Jobs.)

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Apple, Inc. was the one and only monument Steve wanted to build

<3 tam tam

im sure its possible that this exceedingly nasty man who spoke repeatedly & publicly about not being interested in philanthropy because of the amount of time it would take away from developing his business, was privately very generous. yes, very possible... http://i.imgur.com/YCOfu.gif

for halloween I was going to be a ghost in a turtleneck but now I think it's going to be something like a cancer cell w/ an ipad

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