Steve Jobs RIP 1955-2011

cf http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/JFK_grave.jpg

ugh comparing jobs to kennedy makes me feel ill

Local Apple Store has their the lights, as if they're trying to create some weird chapel-of-remembrance atmosphere in there.

At work today I have had about ten times the usual number of requests for new iMacs & MacBooks :S

has dimmed their lights

i would think they'd take the day off at the apple store

Whoa whoa whoa there's money to be made here.

ask not what your ipad 2 case can do for you

symbolism:

the flame that does not go out vs. the browser that always beachballs

Whoa whoa whoa there's money to be made here.

― You people are supposed to be some kind of music culture intelligentsi (Phil D.), Thursday, October 6, 2011 8:25 AM (2 minutes ago)

in a somewhat tacky confluence of marketing, i received an iPhone4S spam mail around the time of Jobs' death yesterday.

ugh comparing jobs to kennedy makes me feel ill

Image-conscious highly polished presenters advancing certain approaches, trying not to be caught out by anything they wanted to keep secret and not always succeeding, being inspirations nonetheless, dying in sucky ways...

has dimmed their lights

And playing Gregorian chants. Occasionally, the soft sound of weeping can be heard, but otherwise, silence.

yeah but i literally cried the last time i reread his inaugural address. i think the messages they presented are qualitatively very different, and the message of kennedy's life i think is a much higher thing to aspire to than YAY A MOUSE YAY A GUI YAY ITUNES YAY FARMVILLE ON IPAD

http://i56.tinypic.com/2zfrfdk.jpg

^ posted from her iPhone

you'd think surely someone had already hacked a "here's to the dreamers" think different commercial together with a b&w photo of jobs and birth/death dates by now as the closing frame, fading to black, then just the apple logo in white but can i find it on the youtubes, just to chortle grimly at it, to what purpose i know not? can i fuck

Bob Garfield OTM

can you fuck?

Maybe it was rhetorical, along the lines of "am I blue?"

yeah classic jfk rhetorical q imo

I wonder how many of Apple's slave laborers in china committed suicide when they heard this sad, sad news

take it to the overseas slave labour thread imo

D-

no ILM steve jobs RIP but what's on your iPod thread yet?

Not until you start one.

sorry guys, slipped into glaswegian for a second - i blame the return of rab c. nesbit to the airwaves

believe the proper spelling is "can i fuc"

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

guilty LOLs

Interesting, detailed tribute here from the Residents:

http://www.residents.com/home/

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsngqptiDM1qzinpio1_500.jpg

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LOL

are you fucking kidding me

horrible

I haven't been this enraged by someone using technology to mourn since I first encountered ;_;

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i was playing devil's advocate on this thread for a while, but kill these people. kill them all.

did sum1 already post this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJSFFpDuGZU&feature=player_embedded

not kill--just maim

xpost

i was playing devil's advocate on this thread for a while, but kill these people. kill them all.

co-sign

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2011/10/6/1317887081412/Beijing-China-A-child-loo-004.jpg

this is great

http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1977507,00.html

http://memeburn.com/wp-content/uploads/cracked-iPhone3-New-York.png

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rwsuXHA7RA&feature=player_embedded

^^ Jobs's own voice-over vs. the Richard Dreyfuss v.o. used in the final version.

xp i hope that person smashed their own phone when they heard the news

I mean, come on. Love the guy's products or no, but as a dude Jobs was a total inscrutable cipher. Sort of like Howard Hughes had his OCD manifested itself as Machiavellian ambition.

Apple Store Robbery Interrupted by Jobs Mourners

http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article.aspx?aID=128673.54928.140818

Best part is the police report that mentions the store's "owner passed earlier this afternoon."

http://a.abcnews.com/images/Technology/gty_steve_jobs_reaction_14_dm_111006_ssh.jpg

Mario Spinetti sits outside the Apple Store on West 66th Street after hearing of the death of Steve Jobs, founder and former CEO of Apple Inc., in the early hours of Oct. 6, 2011 in New York City. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images)

http://a.abcnews.com/images/Technology/ap_jobs_reaction_2_dm_111006_ssh.jpg

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

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