Steve Jobs found dead

sheena_yanai

<a href="http://www.apple.com/stevejobs/" target="_blank">http://www.apple.com/stevejobs/</a>

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update: Jobs died "peacefully" surrounded by family members, his family said in a statement.

Talesin

I hear the Cult of Mac is planning a welcome-back party for Friday.


I do have to (grudgingly) give him his due. Without Jobs, we wouldn't have Pixar as it is today.

aeroripper

I bet his coffin will be a man sized IPOD!















Yeah that was probably in bad taste. Seriously though, i'd be lost without my iPod. It's too bad, 56 is too young for someone to die. Having "turned a struggling company into a global behemoth with more cash on hand than the U.S. treasury" is a nice bullet on a resume for an accomplishment few in the world can attest to.

lolfighter

Sad to see him go, and at such a young age too. He was a visionary, and like Apple's products or not, they were definitely on to something. His return to the company marked the policy change it needed, and pulled it back from the brink to propel it to new heights. It would have been interesting to see what he would have come up with in the future.

DiscoZombie

I knew he had cancer but I was surprised to hear this news. He just resigned like a month ago. How do you go from healthy enough to lead a gigantic company to dead in the span of a month? I guess it must have spread quickly. Quite a shame.

konata

He had cancer for approximately 7 years. It's good to see he outlived it for a fair bit longer than they expected.

As much as people knock Macs, Apple. He IS innovation.

It is sad, as you can only imagine he has left a long legacy of ideas written down for how he wants Apple to go, and we may never see them.

Sops

<!--quoteo(post=1878265:date=Oct 6 2011, 07:52 AM:name=DiscoZombie)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (DiscoZombie @ Oct 6 2011, 07:52 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1878265"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I knew he had cancer but I was surprised to hear this news. He just resigned like a month ago. How do you go from healthy enough to lead a gigantic company to dead in the span of a month? I guess it must have spread quickly. Quite a shame.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
He was a control freak, he just kept managing the company through it all.

It takes a true marketing genus to convince people they need an iPad.

puzl

When I read that someone is 'found dead' it immediately conjures images of death by misadventure. And not in a Jimmy Hendrix sort of way, but in a David Carradine sort of way.

So anyway, yeah, smart dude, sad to see him die so young. Seems like having all the money in the world doesn't matter in the end.

Xyth

"They called it the 4S and not the 5?! what are we, Android?!" *heeergh*
<a href="http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=is+steve+jobs+alive%3F" target="_blank">http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=is+steve+jobs+alive%3F</a>

Really though, the man was a genius. He knew what people wanted, and he gave them it (at a healthy markup).

sheena_yanai

<!--quoteo(post=1878302:date=Oct 7 2011, 02:06 AM:name=Xyth)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Xyth @ Oct 7 2011, 02:06 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1878302"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->"They called it the 4S and not the 5?!<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->


they rumor 4S means "for steve"

Drfuzzy

Most people see their life flash before them before they die.

Too bad for Steve though, he never supported flash.

That_Annoying_Kid

BOOM HEADSHOT

and we can all go home knowing dr fuzzy won the thread

lolfighter

That was a ###### joke. No award.

Aldaris

We all know his funeral won't be a flash affair.

konata

<!--quoteo(post=1878394:date=Oct 7 2011, 02:46 PM:name=Aldaris)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Aldaris @ Oct 7 2011, 02:46 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1878394"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->We all know his funeral won't be a flash affair.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

For that terrible joke we all know yours will be iLonely.

Konohas Perverted Hermit

He died of Pancreatic Cancer, IE P.C. So a PC killed him.

Swiftspear

<a href="http://imgur.com/joSIY" target="_blank"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/joSIY.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" /></a>

I miss him too, sorry if this is too soon, but I thought it was really funny.

lolfighter

I don't even get it. What's wrong with it? Surely an iPhone is an iPhone is an iPhone?

konata

<!--quoteo(post=1878629:date=Oct 8 2011, 11:18 AM:name=lolfighter)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (lolfighter @ Oct 8 2011, 11:18 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1878629"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I don't even get it.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Seconded.

Temphage

Every time I think of Steve Jobs, I think about how much time and effort his company spent to ensure consumers couldn't do anything with the stuff they owned that didn't immediately funnel money back to them.

So burn in hell, you TechnoNazi.

Talesin

Have to agree with Temp here, on everything that isn't Jobs' sole Pixar saving grace.
Going from a company that positioned itself as being anti-authoritarian, encouraging free thought (see: the original 1984 commercial) into being one that locked EVERYTHING down, selling style to the mindless iDrones who paid the Moron Tax happily?

Form over function is the domain of the vapid and popular.

I'm still chuckling at Siri, and iDiots' amazement at it... after all, Android has had that up and running exceptionally well for the last year and change. As the 'big new feature' of the new sub-model phone, I'd be expecting something that hadn't been done before, and already done significantly better.

Quaunaut

Jesus, the hate up in here is ridiculous. Yeah, he locked down the phone, up until you jailbroke it. He also made smartphones usable, made tablets not ######, and has provided one of the best development environments out there.

The amount of entitled in this thread is pretty sickening. I didn't like him as a person, nor do I own any of his products save for an iPod that I was given, and I think a lot of those lockdown choices were pretty ######. But if you think introducing design back into engineering, and thusly bringing the technological par of the working class up into real smartphones, wasn't worth the lockdown? You're simply being a curmudgeon, and a jaded one at that.

elodea

I might get hate for this but i don't understand the overgloryfying of his passing and it annoys me to a certain extent. Its almost as if its only because apple is such an 'in' thing.

The way i see it is what enabled the ipod, iphone, ipad and all these other affordable technological gadgetry is not so much the genius but the incredibly favourable low cost manufactoring environment in emerging markets like China and South-East Asia. If the iphone was made entirely in the US, the price point would be way too high (I remember reading an article ballparking it at $15,000 or so) for the large majority. Great market conditions drive and allow great innovation.

He didn't find the solution to any humanitarian problems, only some shiny products for an ever hungry tech market. Praising him for his marketing genius imo is basically the same as saying he shall be remembered for making us want things we wouldn't otherwise want which is really kinda shallow.

Besides, he wasn't always the godlike visionary leader everyone is painting him to be. In his younger days during his first phase of leadership he basically mismanaged alot of social/human/financial capital by creating very unhealthy divisional splits within apple. Nevertheless, death is serious and i dont mean any disrespect to steve jobs, just the hero worship gets to me. I mean will you really i mean actually really miss him beyond words of platitudes?

puzl

No, it wasn't worth the lockdown - they guys are correct. Most of the restrictions on the iphone are to benefit Apple, not the the customer. Why can't you buy books from the
kindle app on iPhone? It's plan retarded that you can't. The list is endless of simply inane restrictions that are the mark of a predatory company and not of an enlightened one.

Why can't you watch flash video? Why does that benefit the user? As a former iphone user who made the transition to android and sees how effective a completely open platform can be on a phone, I'll never buy another apple product again.

konata

It's all about business. The levels of anger and out and out thoughtlessness for how the world works I have just had to read is staggering.

Why can't you read your kindle books on your iphone? Well, why can't I download my Steam games on Origin? Oh wait, it's just plain retarded I can't!

Oh look at that, I made a similarity in product and company placement which is as stupid as the first example.

Scythe

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Actually no. That's a bad analogy. A better one would be "I have installed origin through steam. Why can't I buy any origin games?".

Apple's money is made by letting you into a wonderfully-styled theme park, with great rides and entertaining shows, but only letting you buy pepsi and charging you through the nose for it.

--Scythe--

konata

<!--coloro:red--><span style="color:red"><!--/coloro-->Be polite. -Talesin<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc-->

Temphage

<!--quoteo(post=1878709:date=Oct 8 2011, 07:15 PM:name=Quaunaut)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Quaunaut @ Oct 8 2011, 07:15 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1878709"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->The amount of entitled in this thread is pretty sickening.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

So now wanting to do your own stuff with your own MP3 player or whatever is "entitlement"?

An iPad costs how much?

konata

Do you own these products? Or are you just ribbing on it because you have nothing better to do?

Temphage

<!--quoteo(post=1879117:date=Oct 10 2011, 04:46 PM:name=konata)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (konata @ Oct 10 2011, 04:46 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1879117"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Do you own these products? Or are you just ribbing on it because you have nothing better to do?<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
So if I say I do own one of these devices, does it lend more credence to my point? Or would you just whine that 'if I hate it so much, why do I own one'? I'm guessing the latter.

And if I say I don't own one, you would then vomit more fetid ###### out of your mouth along the lines of 'if you don't own one you have no right to complain'.

Neither of these actually changes the fact that Apple updates their devices in a way designed specifically to brick jailbroken devices all because they represent a threat to their profits.

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non_sequitur_%28literary_device%29" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non_sequitur_...erary_device%29</a>

ITT: Apple apologists.

konata

You've really got some sort of inbalance.