Steve Jobs Believed To Have "About Six Months Left"

The pictures are pretty mean. What do you think about it?

When you make a deal with the devil... he will come calling to collect.

  On 2/17/2011 at 9:18 PM, EDGEY said:

When you make a deal with the devil... he will come calling to collect.

LOOOL

Cheap ploy to get their stock to drop a bit.

That, but nobody would be surprised if it'd turn out not to be too far from the truth.

i hope he's ok. it's the fanbois that get apple a bad name - steve is a visionary.

even though it was the enquirer, i reckon that story did serious damage to apple's stock. any time there's a 'jobs is dying' rumour doing the rounds it does.

  On 2/17/2011 at 9:41 PM, kaini said:

i hope he's ok. it's the fanbois that get apple a bad name - steve is a visionary.

This. I don't always agree with his policy decisions, but I have loved many a piece of apple kit in my day, and Steve has kept things very interesting in the industry for years.

it's not just the apple fanbois, the media and mainstream culture seem to be in love with Steve jobs as well. it's weird! Definitely a relic of 'past times' when a CEO of a company is actually loved by the populace

ideath will revolutionize the way we think about death. everyone will have one.

apple is totally into this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence which makes me hate them a bit on the other hand they have changed the mobile marked completely just look at how many iphone clones there are now mostly by companies who laughed at them when they started

apple - and steve in particular, i think - understand what makes a good UI more than anyone else. they're not perfect, but they definitely know how to avoid the 600 dialog boxes, 1200 radio buttons, and infuriating, weird design decisions that plague microsoft, sony, and everyone else.

the best work Steve Jobs ever did was not for apple imo

too bad Nextstep didn't keep going, i was sad to see him join back with apple. but i guess from a capitalistic standpoint it worked out great

in case anyone is wondering what the hell this is, it's a proto OSX independent platform computer running a custom Operating system called 'openstep' or 'nextstep' based on a unix kernel. Openstep OS at the time was able to run on nextstep computers, x86 computers and macs.

  On 2/17/2011 at 10:06 PM, Awepittance said:

the best work Steve Jobs ever did was not for apple imo

 

too bad Nextstep didn't keep going, i was sad to see him join back with apple. but i guess from a capitalistic standpoint it worked out great

 

in case anyone is wondering what the hell this is, it's a proto OSX independent platform computer running a custom Operating system called 'openstep' or 'nextstep' based on a unix kernel. Openstep OS at the time was able to run on nextstep computers, x86 computers and macs.

OSX is based on the NEXT OS though, steve took it with him when he rejoined apple... but i'm betting you knew that :)

Plus remember the NeXT machines cost bucketloads.

and NeXTSTEP originally only ran on NeXT computers, it was only later that you could run the OS on any platform (which of course is a pretty moot point these days, as you can run Windows, Linux and OS X on a wide range of hardware).

apple stock will surely tumble a bit when he passes wether its in 6 months or 6 years. but in the long run, if they continue their pace of reliable products that everyone keeps trying to duplicate, they should be ok. i do worry that their closed loop is reaching people that aren't even aware of the loop they are in. i am in a spot now where i am pretty much locked out of my phone because my mac tower is too old to run the new os which i need to run itunes 10.6. that really kills me.

i still don't think android will take over because there are too many variables across different phones. this summer im betting apple's iphone will be split across a few handsets. the iphone 5 will be a dialed in version of the 4, there will be a small version that is much cheaper and possibly one with a slide out qwerty keypad. if they do that, by this time next year, they will have the smartphone market dominated, with or without jobs.

  On 2/17/2011 at 9:18 PM, oscillik said:

  On 2/17/2011 at 9:18 PM, EDGEY said:

When you make a deal with the devil... he will come calling to collect.

LOOOL

yeah don't be cunts.

  On 2/17/2011 at 10:16 PM, jules said:

reliable products that everyone keeps trying to duplicate, they should be ok.

this is a good thing imo.

it's a loop in itself - apple copy other people's innovations and make them better/more usable, then other people copy apple and innovate further.

upon further inspection of his photos, he seems to be looking pretty good to me. at least in this one.

  On 2/17/2011 at 10:16 PM, jules said:

 

i still don't think android will take over because there are too many variables across different phones. this summer im betting apple's iphone will be split across a few handsets. the iphone 5 will be a dialed in version of the 4, there will be a small version that is much cheaper and possibly one with a slide out qwerty keypad. if they do that, by this time next year, they will have the smartphone market dominated, with or without jobs.

i think this is key, while touch-screens seem very popular and widespread i don't think that they will be able to completely phase out a qwerty or actual button based method of typing.

At least i hope they don't i think touch screens at least as far as communication goes ( texting, typing) are still a gimmick and don't actually speed up or make easier that form of communication.

  On 2/17/2011 at 11:03 PM, Awepittance said:

  On 2/17/2011 at 10:16 PM, jules said:

 

i still don't think android will take over because there are too many variables across different phones. this summer im betting apple's iphone will be split across a few handsets. the iphone 5 will be a dialed in version of the 4, there will be a small version that is much cheaper and possibly one with a slide out qwerty keypad. if they do that, by this time next year, they will have the smartphone market dominated, with or without jobs.

 

i think this is key, while touch-screens seem very popular and widespread i don't think that they will be able to completely phase out a qwerty or actual button based method of typing.

At least i hope they don't i think touch screens at least as far as communication goes ( texting, typing) are still a gimmick and don't actually speed up or make easier that form of communication.

haptic feedback - in layman's terms, giving physical feedback so it feels like you're pressing an actual button - is the way forward, i think.

  On 2/17/2011 at 10:14 PM, chenGOD said:

Plus remember the NeXT machines cost bucketloads.

compared to a high end mac at the time? I don't think the price difference was big (it was actually about double i just checked), and it but it was far far lower than `most any other GUI unix based workstation (sun spark, sgi, hp, ibm). For the time it was incredibly innovative.

  On 2/17/2011 at 10:14 PM, chenGOD said:

and NeXTSTEP originally only ran on NeXT computers, it was only later that you could run the OS on any platform (which of course is a pretty moot point these days, as you can run Windows, Linux and OS X on a wide range of hardware).

sure maybe a moot point literally today, but to me this stands out as much more of a leap forward in technology than the Iphone or Ipad. It really seems like a form of mob mentality to me that people scream how innovative the Iphone is. Innovative in the sense of pushing the market forward, sure, but when i think innovative i think of being so insanely creative that the industry doesnt start to pick up on where you left off 10 years later

all this reminds me that i've been meaning to get a FreeBSD virtual machine up and running. sounds like a project.

  On 2/17/2011 at 11:05 PM, kaini said:

 

haptic feedback - in layman's terms, giving physical feedback so it feels like you're pressing an actual button - is the way forward, i think.

i havent tried one of these yet, do they exist on any mainstream phone or product? i remember hearing something about the verizon

  On 2/17/2011 at 11:08 PM, Awepittance said:

  On 2/17/2011 at 11:05 PM, kaini said:

 

haptic feedback - in layman's terms, giving physical feedback so it feels like you're pressing an actual button - is the way forward, i think.

 

i havent tried one of these yet, do they exist on any mainstream phone or product? i remember hearing something about the verizon

apple are well aware of it: http://www.tuaw.com/2008/02/26/iphone-haptic-keyboard-prototype-debuts/ (this is a student project, but i recall reading some other stuff about a haptic iphone before too)

i think some very high-end samsung phones have it too, but when it comes to phones it's a tech very much in its infancy