RIP Steve Jobs

http://www.apple.com/

very few people get the chance to make as much of a positive & lasting impact on the world as he has.

think of all the visual art & music that never would have been made if not for apple. the mac was always the computer that allowed so many artists to finally become comfortable with technology and make some truly amazing stuff.

rip Steve. thanks for everything.

http://arstechnica.com/staff/fatbits/2011/10/steve-jobs-a-personal-remembrance.ars

I love John Siracusa.

STEVE JOBS COMIN AT YA!

Just...just holy shit...

Maybe I am out of the loop, but this overflowing attention to Jobs is slightly spooky, like some sort of cult of personality.

how many Henry Fords do you think each generation gets?

Steve Jobs biopic in T-minus 1 year and counting...

He's on my list of people to be cloned whenever in the future.

RIP.

  On 10/6/2011 at 2:46 AM, disparaissant said:

seriously, i never gave a rats ass about apple or steve jobs except for one thing - if it hadn't been for the apple ][s at my elementary school, i probably never would have had a chance to turn into the massive nerd i am today

apple I and apple II was the work of steve wozniak though, not jobs.

Too soon?

Rumor has it he died on the operating system.

A shame indeed; he brought innovation to the mass market. A terrible shame to have died so young. R.I.P.

Also, you just know that Satan is cooking up a special assfucking for those Westboro Baptist church fiends.

I saw someone complaining about how this story is getting more attention than the "human stem cells cloned" news.

;)

Sad news, but not much of a surprise since he stepped down from CEO position, imo.

btw, is it too soon to win irony points by starting a new pseudonym called Jeve Stobs?

i agree with all the positive things everyone has said and apple/MAC tech has made my musical life better

devil's advocate/hate me

he amassed a 9 BILLION dollar personal fortune and did not share much of it [42nd richest guy on the planet]

he shipped tens of thousands of jobs out of the united states to sweatshops in china to compete with all of the other scumbag capitalistic excel spreadsheet profit driven puter brands.

he didn't invent much of what he is credited for and was resistant to many of the designs/ideas his teams presented to him.

I know i'm a scumbag for pointing all this out

but it's the truth

What I proposed was a computer that would be easy to use, mix text and graphics, and sell for about $1,000. Steve Jobs said that it was a crazy idea, that it would never sell, and we didn't want anything like it. He tried to shoot the project down.

Jobs took over. He simply came in and said, "I'm taking over Macintosh hardware; you can have software and publications." ... And then a few months later Jobs said, "I'm taking over software; you can have publications." So I said, "You can have publications too," and left. That was in May of 1982. He and Markkula said, "Please don't leave. Give us another month and we'll make you an offer you can't refuse." So I gave Apple a month; they made me an offer, and I refused.

After he took over, Jobs came up with the story about the Mac project being a "pirate operation." We weren't trying to keep the project away from Apple, as he later said; we had very good ties with the rest of Apple. We were trying to keep the project away from Jobs' meddling. For the first two years, Jobs wanted to kill the project because he didn't understand what it was really all about.

I was very much amused by the recent Newsweek article where he [Jobs] said, "I have a few good designs in me still." He never had any designs. He has not designed a single product. Woz (Steve Wozniak) designed the Apple II. Ken Rothmuller and others designed Lisa. My team and I designed the Macintosh. Wendell Sanders designed the Apple III. What did Jobs design? Nothing.

We have a whole valley full of people talking UNIX versus MS-DOS. What do you need any of that for? Just throw it all out; get rid of all that nonsense. Maybe you need it for computer scientists, but for people who want to get something done, no. Do you need an operating system? No.

Have you ever noticed that there are no Maytag user groups? Nobody needs a mutual support group to run a washing machine.

I hate mice. The mouse involves you in arm motions that slow you down. I didn't want it on the Macintosh, but Jobs insisted. In those days, what he said went, good idea or not.

It's absolutely ugly, but unfortunately quite true of the world today; the more money you make, the more people tend to listen to you. If you're not quoted in Fortune or Forbes or the Wall Street Journal, then nobody listens. If you say something that makes a lot of money, whether what you said is true or not, people listen.

Icons, windows, mice, big operating systems, huge programs, integrated packages.... I would like to remind the world that just because two things are on the same menu doesn't mean they taste good together.

Yikes is Jef Raskin?

RIP

Also, kudos to WATMM for recognizing its never too soon to start making dead people funny

Knew something bad was up when I woke up and my twitter feed was full of poor Japanese translations of Steve Jobs quotes.

Wonder if he's gone to heaven or he'll

sorry if this is against the grain and offends anyone, but i had access to apples and appleIIs or whatever all through my childhood and high school, and they never really did much more than bore me with stupid games. most of my learning was done on PCs, which actually werent in any of the computer labs ironically.

  On 10/6/2011 at 4:09 PM, jhonny said:

Wonder if he's gone to heaven or he'll

come back on the third day..?

well macs are for regular people. it was supposed to be simple. and really all this he didnt invent or he didnt do that.. he was the decision man. its like writing a song or painting a picture. Its what you leave out as much as what you put in.

but people are crazy materialistic. Maddening. They are just computers. You can live without your cellphone too. Try it