RIP Steve Jobs

[Tommy_Wiseau]

Originally Posted by Diggles [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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?

[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.

[Temptation]

a lot of white people play p99

[Jjlent]

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

[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.

[pickled_heretic]

Originally Posted by Alkorin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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