Steve Jobs has Passed Away!? (UPDATED)

[erztez]

Jobs was no revolutionary. He was good at marketing, I'll give him that, but the man never had an original thought.

He invented the iPod!

For the sake of my sanity I choose to believe that you are joking.
If anyone "invented" the iPod, it was Jon Rubinstein, Jobs just gave a general order.

You honestly thought that I meant that Jobs SINGLE-HANDEDLY made the iPod?

I've met Apple fanboys. Nuff said.
In any case, I apologize for slotting you into that category.
However, my point stands. Jobs didn't invent the iPod. He just ordered some guys to "go make up something that we can sell to the idiots out there for 5 times what it's worth".

 

[keinechance]

A human being died.

That is always tragic.

 

[zarix2311]

Oh well, that's too bad. I wasn't really a apple user though so not a tragic story for me.

 

[erztez]

Jobs took the GUI OS that we all take for granted nowadays to market. fact. and he did not in any way, as you stated before, "steal" it.

he was however, as is always the case in a technological field, standing on the shoulders of those before him but it took Microsoft 25 years to catch up (placing that point at the release of windows 7 finally measuring up to its Mac equivalent)

as for you flippant "trademark the letter "i"" line well that's one then eh?..out of 338...

really count "proving your points" ?

that's...interesting...

simple fact is i own Silicon Valley history books written well before Job returned to Apple and the release of "i" anything and even they cite him as one of the most important and transformative people involved in the birth of the industry.

his relationship and rivalry with Gates alone is the stuff of near legend...

so you don't like him ? i get that. but all i gave you in that post was facts.
an honourable man would acknowledge them and see no need to subvert their use in order to express and opinion.

in the end (and this goes for the "why should i care" people too) it comes down to what you leave behind.

most of us leave absolutely nothing.

Mr Jobs left us a lot.

Actually, OSX was a piece of crap when it was released and it still is today. Granted, it's a mighty PRETTY piece of buggy crap, but it's still crap. The way in which this is most visible is that Windows, a crappy system if there ever was one, is still BETTER. And HAS been better for a while. It doesn't look as pretty, but it actually WORKS, and doesn't need proprietary hardware to run.

See my point above about his 338 "inventions". Read the sources, not just the wiki page.

The only thing Jobs left behind is a cult of idiots who will buy anything with a lower case "i" in front of it.
As achievements go, meh.

 

[erztez]

A human being died.

That is always tragic.

Not REALLY, is it?

Jobs aside, surely we can agree that some deaths are either necessary or funny as hell?

 

[Ghengis John]

whether you like it or not, Mr Jobs left us a lot.

He did not leave us a lot. We bought it.

 

[Jegsimmons]

So much for "an apple a day keeps the doctor away".

...sorry, too soon?

And now, it's TASTELESS JOKE TIME!

What did one unemployed cancer cell say to the other?
Let's go get Jobs!

Now i dont feel as bad for these

guess he ate a bad apple......

Did the doctors not download the right app?

Huh, i guess Mac Users CAN get a virus!


Hey i make fun of ALL celebrities who die, and im not stopping now.
(but in all seriousness, he was a very innovative person who revolutionized computers and deserved a longer life)

 

[BaronUberstein]

Even though I'm a PC user and own no Apple products, it still saddens me to hear that he passed away. He had a very important place in the history of technology, and I always held an amount of respect to him for it.

My thoughts exactly, he certainly made an impression on technology, and it will be interesting to see where Apple goes from here.

 

[BanicRhys]

A human being died.

That is always tragic.

Only to those who knew him personally. The rest of us shouldn't care. Life's too short to spend it getting choked up every time someone dies.

Also, funeral planning? There's an app for that.
What, too Zune?

 

[razer17]

I literally could not care less. Not because I dislike Apple (which I do), or because I hate all corporations in general (which I do), but because he is no different to anyone else.

If it were my mum, dad, sister, gran etc. then yes, I'd be upset, or care in some form. However, I don't know Jobs, and I can't care more about him than any other human being. In fact, if anything, I care less. His life was spent with ridiculous amounts of money to make life better. People in Africa die every minute having none of that privilege. Not only that, but people need to die. It will be sad for his family and friends, sure, but other people shouldn't treat him as being more worthy of remembrance than others. Anyone who says RIP Steve (apart from family, friends etc.) should be saying it to anyone else who died. And if that's the case, good luck, becuase people die more quickly than you can acknowledge them.

 

[erztez]

A human being died.

That is always tragic.

Only to those who knew him personally.

The rest of us shouldn't care. Life's too short to spend it getting choked up every time someone dies.

Also, funeral planning? There's an app for that. What, too Zune?

Amen brother, amen.

What is it with all this touchy-feely "every life is important" crap?

IT IS NOT. At least not to everyone.

If I keel over right now, you wouldn't give a damn, nor should you. And vice versa.

 

[Cronq]

RIP

Still hate your cult like following, but you sure knew how to make money and market a product.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

Funny I thought he was doing just fine. How sudden. What will become of the company now? Sometimes when the founders of a company dies the whole thing changes. Just look at what cartoon network was before the founders died. Now look at it afterwards. There are some real differences.

Did the founder die? The way I understand it, it went downhill because the original CEO got fired after the Aqua Teen Hungerforce bomb scare, and the suits they brought in to replace him wanted to compete with Disney and Nickelodeon, instead of working within the niche that Cartoon Network filled.

Yeah, many other people passed away too. Just because he is famous doesn't mean I should care for him more than anyone else.

Oh look, it's this topic again...

Yes, yes it is.

What you said applies when kim kardashian dies, not the single most important figure in the history of computing.

Not to diminish Mr. Jobs' legacy[footnote]as much as I dislike Apple's modern modus operandi, the man was an astonishing pioneer; sure, most of what he's famous for was done in some form or fashion by someone else first, but he's the one who brought it all together and got it to market; he also was responsible for quite a few significant breakthroughs, it's just not what he was most famous for.[/footnote], but Alan Turing died decades ago. If you don't know who that is, look him up.

OT: The computing industry has lost a great innovator. I've never owned an Apple product in my life, but I have to respect what the man did for the industry. I'm also worried about what's going to happen to Apple in his absence. He pretty much single handedly turned the company around in the late 90's and early 2000's; Apple fans have a saying about how the company only makes good products when he's in charge. I hope they can continue his legacy.

By the way, does anyone know whatever happened to Steve Wozniak? There were two Steves at the founding of the company, but one of them completely slipped off the radar at some point, and I've never heard why.

 

[Tiger Sora]

He really did forge an empire, out of a garage no less.
And that empire won't be going away for a long while

RIP Mr. Jobs. You'll be missed, but as long as my iPod stays alive, I suppose I won't forget about you.

 

[keinechance]

A human being died.

That is always tragic.

Not REALLY, is it?

Jobs aside, surely we can agree that some deaths are either necessary or funny as hell?

No,not really.

 

[keinechance]

A human being died.

That is always tragic.

Only to those who knew him personally. The rest of us shouldn't care. Life's too short to spend it getting choked up every time someone dies.

Also, funeral planning? There's an app for that.
What, too Zune?

A little empathy is OK I think.

 

[Codeman90]

I don't particularly like Apple, but Steve Jobs was exactly what apple needed and he seemed like a genuinely nice guy. May he rest in peace.

 

[Toriver]

No matter what I may think of the current state of Apple, Steve Jobs was a pioneer who did have a profound and positive impact on technology today, and not just in Apple products. Let that be his lasting legacy, not the business practices of his company.

RIP Steve Jobs

 

[Kadoodle]

The Thomas Edison of our time has passed.

Rest in peace, Steve.

 

[Nightshine]

I was pretty shocked by this, as a person its sad to see someone whos made such a change as a whole to technology that people use everyday. I've used an iphone for almost 4 years and thats good enough reason for me to like the guy.
Hes helped make a device which millions of people use everyday, hes changed the way we communiacate with people. I think there was still more to come as well.
He will be missed.