Steve Jobs RIP 1955-2011

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

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

http://i.imgur.com/UQ8bN.png

no maybe I'm going to be a cancer cell that will throw drinks at ipads

Playboy interview with Steve Jobs, circa 1985:

http://www.playboy.com/magazine/playboy-interview-steve-jobs

john siracusa: http://arstechnica.com/staff/fatbits/2011/10/steve-jobs-a-personal-remembrance.ars

I saw a butt xp

do you guys believe that steve jobs changed music

A+++++ trolling itt re: the recently departed. Stay fuckin' classy ilx.

love this, from the Playboy piece:

"Two other party guests wandered into the room and looked over Jobs’s shoulder. ‘Hmmm,’ said the first, Andy Warhol. ‘What is this? Look at this, Keith. This is incredible!’ The second guest, Keith Haring, the graffiti artist whose work now commands huge prices, went over. Warhol and Haring asked to take a turn at the Mac, and as I walked away, Warhol had just sat down to manipulate the mouse. ‘My God!’ he was saying, ‘I drew a circle!’"

funny thing is it actually is A++++++++ trolling

never change canky

funny thing is it actually is A++++++++ trolling

― u0sd0ןɟ (flopson), Thursday, October 6, 2011 12:19 AM (10 seconds ago) Bookmark

http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/27063/steve-jobs-10-favorite-records-and-what-they-say-about-him/

thats why I said it

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.

― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, October 5, 2011 7:49 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

http://allthingsd.com/20110928/encyclopaedia-britannica-now-fits-into-an-app/

love this too:

"People get stuck as they get older. Our minds are sort of electrochemical computers. Your thoughts construct patterns like scaffolding in your mind. You are really etching chemical patterns. In most cases, people get stuck in those patterns, just like grooves in a record, and they never get out of them. It’s a rare person who etches grooves that are other than a specific way of looking at things, a specific way of questioning things."

"I have long been a huge admirer of Mr. Jobs and consider him the da Vinci of our time." OTM.

From the NYT article that Eazy posted above.

A+++++ trolling itt re: the recently departed. Stay fuckin' classy ilx.

If you are honestly grieving Steve Jobs's death so hard that you can't bear to read any criticism of him, why would you even be on the Internet, much less ILX?

yo ned, nice post

(the one on your blog)

Calm down dude, I was talking about TamTam's totally in character ott-ness being glad he's in hell.

(xpost to jaymc)

i'm not trolling btw, im just another poster giving my 2 cents bub

John, the thing is, "You knew it was a snake when you picked it up," isn't the point. We expect people to be assholes in RIP threads, but that doesn't excuse them or make it less appropriate to point out that they are being assholes.

Being glad someone died /= "criticism", fyi.

http://daringfireball.net/

how is it inappropriate to point out that steve jobs isn't davinci?

i mean maybe if steve jobs actually invented a bunch of shit instead of just marketing it to people

steve jobs was jesus in that case

Sorry, I still don't get why RIP threads are supposed to be these special sacrosanct places.

(Also, don't see where TamTam said that he was glad Jobs is dead.)

sean parker: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150348392138293

(I do see TamTam being generally snarky about Jobs's death.)

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

Back when it was two guys in a garage, Jobs was most certainly inventing shit.

Because there is all the time and all the space in the world to criticize somebody,and while a RIP thread isn't quite equivalent to a wake, it's not the place to drag out grievances.

If not here, where? Should we revive some old Steve Jobs thread to make those points? This is the one where the conversation is happening.

My iPhone won't hard reset =(

(Btw, thanks, Jon -- I guess I missed that post.)

Sorry, I still don't get why RIP threads are supposed to be these special sacrosanct places.

Because people generally start RIP threads because they were affected by the subject for one reason or another. I mean, I get it being a public forum etc etc blah blah but I don't ever think its agl to shit on someone in a RIP thread and I'd never do it myself.

Next time I see a funeral in a public cemetery, I'm gonna run up and shout "HA! THAT GUY KINDA SUCKED ANYWAY". After I get chased down and beat to shit, I'll shrug and say, "what's the big deal? he didn't affect me personally".

Guys, we have a thread for this

Rolling 2011 Celeb Death Snark Safety Thread

you can always tell when j/v/c is hyperventilating by the presence of f-bombs in his posts

And yes, Jobs absolutely was inventing things, hands-on at first, and as a leader of Apple later. I don't recall Macbooks gathering dust on shelves in 1980 until Jobs figured out how to make them seem hip.

xp - John, this really feels like old-school "I don't get this obvious thing" jaymc stuff.

I mean, I'm being ridiculous of course, but still. Personally I don't see the appeal of shitting on an RIP thread started in good faith by someone who was generally affected by someone, no matter how trivially.

didnt this dude just steal all his ideas from xerox anyway?

was going to 'troll' in the sense that i think his co. is a monstrosity but w/e

Because people generally start RIP threads because they were affected by the subject for one reason or another

Is that really true? I don't recall if I've ever started an RIP thread, but if I have, it's b/c it was news and there was interesting stuff to talk about.