RIP Steve Jobs

[Tommy_Wiseau]

i guess he resigned for a reason

http://www.apple.com/stevejobs/

[Falisaty]

yes it is a sad sad day for the tech industry

[loopholbrook]

lol usad?

[Diggles]

yes it is a sad sad day for the tech industry
sad day for apple because they won't have a way to pass ten year old piece of shit computers as innovative and slap a 3k dollar price tag on them.

[Anger]

iSad.

In before iFuneral app.

[Feces]

Need more Apple fanbois to die.

[quido]

I heard he dropped a Turtleneck of Everlasting Smugness.

[Alarti0001]

What will this do for the hipster movement?

[Falisaty]

lol i hate apple dont get me wrong but the man had ideas.... just think if it wasnt for him we would not have smart phones

[Alarti0001]

if it wasn't for him we would have had smart phones 6 months later.?

[Diggles]

apparantly falisaty thinks steve jobs invented blackberries.

[Alarti0001]

steve jobs was a great ceo, a great orator, a great spokesperson.... but not an innovator

[Falisaty]

lol ok if u think a black berry was a smart phone u must be mastaken they were a PDA not a smart phone

[Diggles]

must be mastaken

totally mastaken you got me

[Kevlar]

Jobs didn't invent anything. He was really good at stealing other people's ideas and putting them into pretty packages.

[Pico]

rip old white man who made iphones

[Eccezan]

Steve Jobs was hit hard by TMO getting Trakanon this morning...

[Diggles]

steve jobs WAS trakanon

[Diggles]

rest in peace, my little plague dragon

[Feces]

RIP plague dragon Jobs.

[Autotune]

RIP plague dragon Jobs.

[Nizzarr]

http://img827.imageshack.us/img827/8622/1997leaveyourmarkappled.jpg

[Tommy_Wiseau]

steve jobs was a great ceo, a great orator, a great spokesperson.... but not an innovator

steve's business acumen hustled the tech industry along for years. 4 years later and the best non-iPhone smartphone still isn't competing with what apple's got in terms of quality. You can give Jobs as many backhanded compliments as you want, he'll still be remembered as the father of both the smartphone and the first consumer electronics company in history that didnt peddle goofy beige trash to nerds.

[Diggles]

that's funny considering the android operating system is toppling the iOS systems now.

[Tommy_Wiseau]

in terms of what metric bro

market share? lol

or your opinion? well okay

[Eccezan]

father of the smartphone? What about PalmOS smartphones?!

[Tommy_Wiseau]

father of the smartphone? What about useless garbage?!

[Diggles]

not kawaii

i didnt know japan was a mindless iBitch

[Rais]

At least he didn't die from a virus.....

[Diggles]

I GET IT

[SUSUGAM]

kinda wish he stuck around to suffer for a few more years. greedy douchebag imo. nothing but a business man.

[Tommy_Wiseau]

not kawaii

i didnt know japan was a mindless iBitch

am not bro, dont own any apple product although ive used their stuff pretty extensively

apple didn't become fabulously wealthy in the last 5 years because of marketing alone. Product speaks for itself dogg.

[dredge]

But there is something more fundamental to thank Jobs for -- the very screen text you're reading now, the very fact that we can express ourselves digitally with emotion, clarity and variety.

Steve Jobs was the first to give us a real choice of fonts, and made Type Gods of us all.

Steve Jobs didn't invent typefaces, of course; I think Johannes Gutenberg may have had a stronger claim to that in Germany when he used his first carved letters in the 1440s. But Jobs realized their value like no one else engaged in personal computers in the early 1980s, and suddenly we were no longer dependent on professional printers, graphic designers and those long dark nights of the soul with rub-down letters.

And who does Jobs himself thank for this advance? He credits the people who made his academic life untenable at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Without them, he might not have dropped out. If he hadn't dropped out, he may not have discovered calligraphy.

[dredge]

By Simon Garfield, Special to CNN

[Slathar]

people die everyday. why should this death be any more saddening than another?

because hes white / american / rich?

[Temptation]

a lot of white people play p99

[Scribbles]

people die everyday. why should this death be any more saddening than another?

because hes white / american / rich?

no, its cuz he actually contributed something to the world as opposed to some meth addict in arizona who lives off the govt cheese his whole life before dying of an overdose at the ripe age of 26

[Slathar]

no, its cuz he actually contributed something to the world as opposed to some meth addict in arizona who lives off the govt cheese his whole life before dying of an overdose at the ripe age of 26

fat

[Jjlent]

^ skinny, did i do it right? im trying to learn

[burkemi5]

in terms of what metric bro

market share? lol

or your opinion? well okay

smart comment is smart

[Ungriim]

Can one of you artsy people make this into a shirt: Bill Gates silhouette with a raised sword and "There can only be one" written under it?

[Alkorin]

He was as much an innovator as anyone else in technology. There are only so many ways you can skin a cat. He skinned many of them before anyone else did -- whether they were stolen cats, as it were, or not.

[Shannacore]

http://i.imgur.com/5kjVw.jpg

[Ektar]

who was he again?

[Aadill]

Confirmed: Westboro Batshit Church = insane.


also mad, fat, a dude, etc

[pickled_heretic]

He was as much an innovator as anyone else in technology. There are only so many ways you can skin a cat. He skinned many of them before anyone else did -- whether they were stolen cats, as it were, or not.

i'm sorry, what did he innovate? was there any product apple released that wasn't already essentially in existence before apple released it?

you can use apple as an example of effective marketing and monetization... not effective innovation.

p.s. sucks that he died from cancer

[Alkorin]

As I said, as much an innovator as anyone else. He just happened to skin the cat(s) first. They were already cats before he got to them.

For those who don't do metaphors: He marketed everyone else's ideas better than they did, even if Apple wasn't necessarily the first one to invent the product.

[pickled_heretic]

As I said, as much an innovator as anyone else. He just happened to skin the cat(s) first. They were already cats before he got to them.

For those who don't do metaphors: He marketed everyone else's ideas better than they did, even if Apple wasn't necessarily the first one to invent the product.

they did pioneer the practice of putting intrusive spyware in their shitty software.

[Shiftin]

There's no way you're serious...

The first versions of things like excel, word and even windows were actually apple programs and concepts that bill gates ran with more successfully on a larger platform due to microsoft's alliance with IBM. To say that apple didn't innovate is to ignore the entire history of the tech sector for the last 30 years.

[Orruar]

There's no way you're serious...

The first versions of things like excel, word and even windows were actually apple programs and concepts that bill gates ran with more successfully on a larger platform due to microsoft's alliance with IBM. To say that apple didn't innovate is to ignore the entire history of the tech sector for the last 30 years.

Actually, the concepts of word processing and spreadsheets on a computer were out long before Apple came along. Everyone here seems to have this notion that invention is coming up with some brand new thing has never been thought of before. In fact, invention and innovation are really just small incremental changes to existing ideas. I can't think of any invention that was truly a brand new concept with no predecessor.

[pickled_heretic]

The first versions of things like excel, word and even windows were actually apple programs

are you saying that because e.g. excel ran on apple it was an "apple program?" sorry that's retarded.

[Tommy_Wiseau]

You idiots wouldn't give the man credit for innovation unless he built a teleportation device in his basement out of parts he smelted together himself out of raw ore. The dude built the first luxury consumer electronics company that has ever existed. I think that defines innovation.

[pickled_heretic]

The dude built the first scrooge mcwhackjob pyramid scheme cult worship factory that profits off idiocy that has ever existed. I think that defines being a douche.

fixed

[pickled_heretic]

let me put it another way... you can admire the man for being an odysseus... not for being an archimedes.

[Tommy_Wiseau]

nobody is calling him the greatest engineer of all time.

There are more important qualities out there than technical skill, as Steve's celebrity and absurd wealth demonstrate.

[pickled_heretic]

nobody is calling him the greatest engineer of all time.

There are more important qualities out there than technical skill, as Steve's celebrity and absurd wealth demonstrate.

馬鹿

[Harrison]

He was a genius and a moron at the same time. His business model was great, knew who to target, etc. and his products were solid and reliable, but like said above, shiny overpriced propriety-based(until recently) bullshit. I think he held himself back by not conforming until it was too late with popular industry standards.

I grew up using apples and macs and I didn't even know wtf the difference between a PC and the others were yet. I wish I had grown up a few years earlier so I could have been there for all of it at a better age. My first computer was an IBM x86 which I think had 16mb of ram tops? I played Zork, Doom, various AD&D games, and other ancients on floppy and those are some of my fondest memories of growing up for me. Learning how to use DOS was what led me to go into programming, too. I would shit a brick if I saw what would come of computing back then.

R.I.P. Steve Jobs, you were very important in the tech world and we owe a lot to you.


(that's what I posted to another forum I frequent)

[purest]

lol @ every sobby fool in this weepfest of a thread. Haven't seen a hug’n’cry of this caliber since that limey slut Princess Di died.

[joetheman]

I don't understand why this guy was such a good person. Sure he invented many products that started with the letter "i", but those ideas were already thought of by other companies. To be honest, the only reason why Macs are popular is for their looks, there's not a whole lot special with them. Also, Mr. jobs made billions through his personal gain and never donated any to charity. Jew maybe? yes.

[Tommy_Wiseau]

di didn't do shit steve was a creator

fuck all haters

[Feachie]

r.i.p steve

no disrespect to steve, but now the snake no longer has a head.
http://familysecuritymatters.org/imgLib/20110503_HeadlessSnake.jpg

[Webwolf]

I despise and loathe Apple for a lot reasons, but that doesn't mean, Steve Jobs was not one of the most brilliant minds, marketers, businessman of the 20th century. I give credit where credit is due, he created a cult brand, and his company created one great product (the iPod) his computers were always behind in the hardware department and OSX is nothing but a hacked version of Unix so the "Mac" really wasn't anything new, but his marketing and execution was always brilliant.

R.I.P. Steve Jobs.

[Tommy_Wiseau]

cult brand

http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/images/OB-PZ610_AppleM_K_20111006112632.jpg

[Feachie]

yeah, but you can see on that graph where the company was without steve.

we'll see how long apple retains their status. feachie's call is it's going to be powerpc days all over again.

[Glitch]

Reading this thread on my macbook with internet tethered from my iphone.
deal with.

[Knuckle]

He was a genius and a moron at the same time. His business model was great, knew who to target, etc. and his products were solid and reliable, but like said above, shiny overpriced propriety-based(until recently) bullshit. I think he held himself back by not conforming until it was too late with popular industry standards.

I grew up using apples and macs and I didn't even know wtf the difference between a PC and the others were yet. I wish I had grown up a few years earlier so I could have been there for all of it at a better age. My first computer was an IBM x86 which I think had 16mb of ram tops? I played Zork, Doom, various AD&D games, and other ancients on floppy and those are some of my fondest memories of growing up for me. Learning how to use DOS was what led me to go into programming, too. I would shit a brick if I saw what would come of computing back then.

R.I.P. Steve Jobs, you were very important in the tech world and we owe a lot to you.


(that's what I posted to another forum I frequent)

don't forget he's one of the great contributors to slavery in china and gives alot of business to factories that imprison their workers :)

[Autotune]

haha Quote from Facebook off someone's status.

Just read up on Steve Jobs death. Cause of death: Pancreatic Cancer....
Looks like PC wins again.

[purest]

no, its cuz he actually contributed something to the world as opposed to some meth addict in arizona who lives off the govt cheese his whole life before dying of an overdose at the ripe age of 26

lol @ the confusing the relentless slobbering that overtakes broadcast media outlets after the death of any extremely famous person as having any correlation with that person's contributions to humanity

[Harrison]

In either case, we can be assured that not a single fuck will be given the day you keel over.

[Hasbinbad]

Just read up on Steve Jobs death. Cause of death: Pancreatic Cancer....
Looks like PC wins again.

^ Funniest shit I've heard in years.

[purest]

In either case, we can be assured that not a single fuck will be given the day you keel over.

Nobody will give a fuck the same way nobody gives fuck about the 2 million Dinka, Zaghawa, Nuer and Fur who were machine-gunned down by Mi-24s in Sudan. There ain't any money in a dead Dinka. And money is the only thing that decides how much TV time a corpse gets. And Steve Jobs had a lot of it.

So, allow me to assure you that in the future, as you lay there with tubes coming out of your fat carcass, and lean over to watch the cardio beeper zig when it's supposed to zag, scared out of your mind and ashamed to look down at that fat gut hyper-ventilating its last chickenshit breaths, nobody will give a single fuck when you keel over either.

[Knuckle]

Nobody will give a fuck the same way nobody gives fuck about the 2 million Dinka, Zaghawa, Nuer and Fur who were machine-gunned down by Mi-24s in Sudan. There ain't any money in a dead Dinka. And money is the only thing that decides how much TV time a corpse gets. And Steve Jobs had a lot of it.

So, allow me to assure you that in the future, as you lay there with tubes coming out of your fat carcass, and lean over to watch the cardio beeper zig when it's supposed to zag, scared out of your mind and ashamed to look down at that fat gut hyper-ventilating its last chickenshit breaths, nobody will give a single fuck when you keel over either.

lol everquest

[Harrison]

Nobody will give a fuck the same way nobody gives fuck about the 2 million Dinka, Zaghawa, Nuer and Fur who were machine-gunned down by Mi-24s in Sudan. There ain't any money in a dead Dinka. And money is the only thing that decides how much TV time a corpse gets. And Steve Jobs had a lot of it.

So, allow me to assure you that in the future, as you lay there with tubes coming out of your fat carcass, and lean over to watch the cardio beeper zig when it's supposed to zag, scared out of your mind and ashamed to look down at that fat gut hyper-ventilating its last chickenshit breaths, nobody will give a single fuck when you keel over either.

lol more fatjokes by anonymous chickenshits

[lordyamish]

meh, i would have cared, but he was such a bad lay that i just lost any feeling i had for him