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yearoftherat
10-05-2011, 07:46 PM
Steve Jobs, the mastermind behind Apple's iPhone, iPad, iPod, iMac and iTunes, has died in California. Jobs was 56.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/steve-jobs-apple-ceo-dies/story?id=14383813
RIP Steve.
boyracer
10-05-2011, 07:49 PM
Wow.... that's a bit of a shocker.
RIP Steve
hit26k
10-05-2011, 07:50 PM
That really is sad... :(
A sad day in the tech world.
Booter22
10-05-2011, 07:53 PM
Wow.. :(
ElectroJay
10-05-2011, 08:01 PM
RIP :(
Thrizzl3
10-05-2011, 08:08 PM
R.I.P Steve :(
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aenraca
10-05-2011, 08:13 PM
What a great loss... :(
07carbon3
10-05-2011, 08:30 PM
Sad news to here
Takumi616
10-05-2011, 08:31 PM
RIP Steve......
Jackal
10-05-2011, 08:33 PM
RIP Mr. Jobs. Sad to hear.
aZuMi
10-05-2011, 08:34 PM
Sad sad...RIP Steve Jobs
The Wolf
10-05-2011, 08:36 PM
RIP Steve Jobs
Darkice
10-05-2011, 08:39 PM
thats gay , i find that kinda weird tho... leaves company , and the iphone is about to come out , my condolences to him
Mitchell3
10-05-2011, 08:42 PM
My facebook got hit hard with these status'..
But still, sad news. And so young too. My father smokes, had cancer, and still out living him
cwp_sedan
10-05-2011, 08:44 PM
thats gay , i find that kinda weird tho... leaves company , and the iphone is about to come out , my condolences to him
:bang
Such a sad day. RIP Steve Jobs. The tech world will definitely miss your brilliance.
Darkice
10-05-2011, 08:44 PM
they didnt realease for what cause he died for or where, tho what if its a whole thing like last time when he came back and brought the iphone ipod and the mac and actually made apple apple a succesful company
Mitchell3
10-05-2011, 08:51 PM
they didnt realease for what cause he died for or where, tho what if its a whole thing like last time when he came back and brought the iphone ipod and the mac and actually made apple apple a succesful company
http://obsoletegamer.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/wtf-cat.jpg
Spelling lost me there lol..
Thrizzl3
10-05-2011, 09:00 PM
they didnt realease for what cause he died for or where, tho what if its a whole thing like last time when he came back and brought the iphone ipod and the mac and actually made apple apple a succesful company
:loco :bang
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angelaTRICIA
10-05-2011, 09:04 PM
Really sad to hear :( R.I.P. Steve Jobs
dave2010GT
10-05-2011, 09:04 PM
sad sad sad :(
RIP Steve
This is a great loss. He was one of the people who changed the world.
boyracer
10-05-2011, 09:06 PM
Well, Apple did announce his death without giving a specific cause, but he was battling cancer since 2004.... So, one can assume that he lost his battle to cancer.
chan7
10-05-2011, 09:48 PM
R.I.P. Steve Jobs
Cudgel
10-05-2011, 09:54 PM
Sad news indeed. R.I.P. Steve.
iconicrocket
10-05-2011, 09:56 PM
That's sad news. RIP Steve, you will be missed. The tech world has lost one of the greatest innovator of our time. What is Apple going to do without him?
Default User
10-05-2011, 09:57 PM
Sad to hear about this. R.I.P.
Sell those apple stocks.
Heard a rumor Apple had an insurance policy on Steve Jobs. He was the "vision" of the company. Apple knew it - so they insured him for X-millions of dollars in the event of his death.
iconicrocket
10-05-2011, 10:00 PM
Apple stock is going down tomorrow for sure. Hope u guys sold ahead of the news. Predicting 10% or more decline.
Booostin
10-05-2011, 10:00 PM
iDIED
-Steve Jobs
Darkice
10-05-2011, 10:03 PM
No no phil thats just what i think , but u never no so im showing my condolences and hopefully his family gets through this r.i.p. Steve jobs
What i wrote was nothing agaisnt him or anything just what a thought
:loco :bang
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cwp_sedan
10-05-2011, 10:12 PM
Apple stock is going down tomorrow for sure. Hope u guys sold ahead of the news. Predicting 10% or more decline.
+1 for sure.
RIP Steve! Was watching the movie 50/50 when my gf's twitter started going off... weird. :(
MajesticBlueNTO
10-05-2011, 10:17 PM
they didnt realease for what cause he died for or where, tho what if its a whole thing like last time when he came back and brought the iphone ipod and the mac and actually made apple apple a succesful company
it's no secret that Steve Jobs was fighting pancreatic cancer ...you can see in pictures over the years how skinny he got from the ravages of the disease. it's the reason why he stepped down from the CEO position in August 2011 as he was too sick to continue.
PCLoadLetter
10-05-2011, 11:10 PM
iDIED
-Steve Jobs
Show some respect?
RIP.
sp3GT
10-05-2011, 11:13 PM
For a man battling cancer since 04 and working that hard, he did great.
RIP
She_Prime
10-05-2011, 11:17 PM
Show some respect?
RIP.
+1.
Rest in Peace Steve Jobs. If it wasn't for you I wouldn't have this iPhone in my hands and the amazing capability to write this message (among the other hundreds of things I do with it on a daily basis).
Thanks for making the world a better place.
Peter
10-05-2011, 11:19 PM
R.I.P iPhone u never be the Same again without you :(
cwp_sedan
10-05-2011, 11:30 PM
Respect this thread. That's all I am going to say.
Booostin
10-05-2011, 11:40 PM
iGrieve Differently.
Inside, I trully am deeply saddened, as much as I disliked his ideology of late. I think he was a brilliant man and sharp business visionary. Heck, I envy the man. However, sad fact of life, as Steve said himself:
"No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true."
No diss meant
I just don't get affected by the personal events and/or deaths of celebrities I don't know, and find doing so a bit ridiculous, if not, at the very least, mock-worthy. It's one thing to laude the man's accomplishments upon his passing. It's another to get personally attached for no ascertainable reason. I've had three relatives pass from cancer, and each and every one of them made jokes similar to these about themselves. It was encouraged that we do the same. I can speak from experience when I say that just because people joke about it doesn't mean they don't give a shit.
http://i.imgur.com/B0vxt.jpg
Soulsofmischief
10-06-2011, 01:29 AM
iGrieve Differently.
Inside, I trully am deeply saddened, as much as I disliked his ideology of late. I think he was a brilliant man and sharp business visionary. Heck, I envy the man. However, sad fact of life, as Steve said himself:
"No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true."
No diss meant
I just don't get affected by the personal events and/or deaths of celebrities I don't know, and find doing so a bit ridiculous, if not, at the very least, mock-worthy. It's one thing to laude the man's accomplishments upon his passing. It's another to get personally attached for no ascertainable reason. I've had three relatives pass from cancer, and each and every one of them made jokes similar to these about themselves. It was encouraged that we do the same. I can speak from experience when I say that just because people joke about it doesn't mean they don't give a shit.
http://i.imgur.com/B0vxt.jpg
I couldn't agree more, Im not happy Steve Jobs died and I'm certain ly not rejoiceful of it but to make light of it is not the end if the world nor do I feel it's so hanous? The fact of the matter is if one of us passed away you think Steve would have grieved ? I mean some folks have a legacy they leave behind but when it comes down to it he ran a successful company, that's pretty much it. And I'm pretty sure he didnt invent the iPhone iPad or iPod alll by himself, he didnt pop out of a basement 33 days after closing the doors and say " here you go, I call it the iPod "
Tomorrow apple stock will stumble a bit but it will recover shortly thereafter.
All that said Rest in peace Steve.
fourtrack78
10-06-2011, 09:10 AM
RIP...... Here's a Steve Jobs Classic.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KkENSYkMgs&feature=featured
Rest In Peace Steve.
If it wasn't for your iPhone revolution, then I wouldn't have my Nexus S.
I admire your innovation and revolutionary visions.
Slade
10-06-2011, 09:53 AM
iGrieve Differently.
Inside, I trully am deeply saddened, as much as I disliked his ideology of late. I think he was a brilliant man and sharp business visionary. Heck, I envy the man. However, sad fact of life, as Steve said himself:
"No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true."
No diss meant
I just don't get affected by the personal events and/or deaths of celebrities I don't know, and find doing so a bit ridiculous, if not, at the very least, mock-worthy. It's one thing to laude the man's accomplishments upon his passing. It's another to get personally attached for no ascertainable reason. I've had three relatives pass from cancer, and each and every one of them made jokes similar to these about themselves. It was encouraged that we do the same. I can speak from experience when I say that just because people joke about it doesn't mean they don't give a shit.
I agree with ya as well.
Steve did a lot for the industry, but also have read and heard that he was an impossible person to do business with.
Foxconn has been in the news before for poor working conditions and little pay, and this is Apples main manufacturer.
Not to disrespect him at all.
I also do not own and have never or plan on buying an Apple product, I'm not part of that cult.
Fayvir
10-06-2011, 09:58 AM
RIP Steve Jobs
Felks24
10-06-2011, 10:11 AM
RIP Steve. You will be missed.
New Apple product launches will never be the same.
slam525i
10-06-2011, 10:32 AM
No disrespect intended...
Any time a public person dies, all their sins are suddenly absolved. Let's not canonize him as a Saint quite yet.
"Jobs returned to his previous job at Atari and was given the task of creating a circuit board (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit_board) for the game Breakout (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakout_%28arcade_game%29). According to Atari founder Nolan Bushnell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nolan_Bushnell), Atari had offered $100 for each chip that was eliminated in the machine. Jobs had little interest in or knowledge of circuit board design and made a deal with Wozniak to split the bonus evenly between them if Wozniak could minimize the number of chips. Much to the amazement of Atari, Wozniak reduced the number of chips by 50, a design so tight that it was impossible to reproduce on an assembly line. According to Wozniak, Jobs told Wozniak that Atari had given them only $700 (instead of the actual $5,000) and that Wozniak's share was thus $350." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs#cite_note-breakout-38)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs
http://www.cultofmac.com/2613/steve-jobs-still-parking-in-handicapped-spaces-the-pictures/
He was a great businessman, and he wonderfully marketed and directed the creation of many impressive devices, but let's be clear on a few things. He didn't invent the mouse. He was not the first to use LCD monitors (heard that on the Chinese radio this AM. *facepalm*) He didn't want Mac to succeed (He had a pet project called Lisa). For years he denied being the father of his own daughter. He was ousted from Apple the first time because the company was flopping. NeXT was a business failure (although arguably a technological success). There has never been any record of him ever having donated a single cent to any charitable causes. (It's possible he donated anonymously.)
He was a business genius. He was a marketing genius. He was not a technological genius. He did not invent anything, although he did a remarkable job of integrating inventions into amazing products.
He was not a God. He wasn't even a particularly "good" human being, not to say he was a particularly "bad" human being either. Let's not all worship him suddenly just because he died. He was a remarkable person, but not necessarily someone we should be idolizing.
(Again, no offence or disrespect intended. I'm not happy he died, but I'm also not particularly sad he died. Cancer sucks.)
Soulsofmischief
10-06-2011, 10:44 AM
No disrespect intended...
Any time a public person dies, all their sins are suddenly absolved. Let's not canonize him as a Saint quite yet.
"Jobs returned to his previous job at Atari and was given the task of creating a circuit board (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit_board) for the game Breakout (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakout_%28arcade_game%29). According to Atari founder Nolan Bushnell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nolan_Bushnell), Atari had offered $100 for each chip that was eliminated in the machine. Jobs had little interest in or knowledge of circuit board design and made a deal with Wozniak to split the bonus evenly between them if Wozniak could minimize the number of chips. Much to the amazement of Atari, Wozniak reduced the number of chips by 50, a design so tight that it was impossible to reproduce on an assembly line. According to Wozniak, Jobs told Wozniak that Atari had given them only $700 (instead of the actual $5,000) and that Wozniak's share was thus $350." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs#cite_note-breakout-38)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs
http://www.cultofmac.com/2613/steve-jobs-still-parking-in-handicapped-spaces-the-pictures/
He was a great businessman, and he wonderfully marketed and directed the creation of many impressive devices, but let's be clear on a few things. He didn't invent the mouse. He was not the first to use LCD monitors (heard that on the Chinese radio this AM. *facepalm*) He didn't want Mac to succeed (He had a pet project called Lisa). For years he denied being the father of his own daughter. He was ousted from Apple the first time because the company was flopping. NeXT was a business failure (although arguably a technological success). There has never been any record of him ever having donated a single cent to any charitable causes. (It's possible he donated anonymously.)
He was a business genius. He was a marketing genius. He was not a technological genius. He did not invent anything, although he did a remarkable job of integrating inventions into amazing products.
He was not a God. He wasn't even a particularly "good" human being, not to say he was a particularly "bad" human being either. Let's not all worship him suddenly just because he died. He was a remarkable person, but not necessarily someone we should be idolizing.
(Again, no offence or disrespect intended. I'm not happy he died, but I'm also not particularly sad he died. Cancer sucks.)
+1
Michael Jackson comes to mind.....
bluemazda3
10-06-2011, 11:34 AM
RIP Steve.. love your stuff..
Booostin
10-06-2011, 12:42 PM
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Steve Jobs
Carrier Detected: 1955
Carrier Lost: 2011
RIP
cwp_sedan
10-06-2011, 12:57 PM
UNINSTALL JOBS
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UPLOAD JOBS TO iCLOUD
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Steve Jobs
Carrier Detected: 1955
Carrier Lost: 2011
RIP
I agreed a bit with what you said in your last post but this just took you back about 10 steps. Give up while you are a head. You are trying to be funny, but it's really not THAT funny. I'm not offended by it at all, just sayin'.
iSad.
http://www.reuters.com/resources/r/?m=02&d=20111006&t=2&i=511934638&w=320&fh=&fw=&ll=&pl=&r=2011-10-06T140246Z_01_BTRE795130O00_RTROPTP_0_APPLE-JOBS
shame, he was only 55.
RIP.
Booostin
10-06-2011, 01:23 PM
iSad.
shame, he was only 55.
RIP.
He was 56
Soulsofmischief
10-06-2011, 01:47 PM
I agreed a bit with what you said in your last post but this just took you back about 10 steps. Give up while you are a head. You are trying to be funny, but it's really not THAT funny. I'm not offended by it at all, just sayin'.
i call it like it is, and i agree as well.. lets not make it a joke thread either. no reason to see how many clever things we can come up with about this.
SL3VIN
10-07-2011, 05:55 PM
Agreed, he was far from a "good" human being, as technologically innovative as he was he has.... he did some questionable things... deadbeat dad, erased all of apple's charities when he returned in the late 90's, workers in asian factories committing suicide...
In the end money corrupts, how anyone can let their own kid grow up on welfare while having that much money (which may or may not be all his, but still) is beyond me... thats messed.
On another note I find it really ironic, seeing some americans mourning him while at the same time supporting the takeover of wall street, hypocrisy at its best.
But alas, cancer sucks... and it is a shame that another human being has lost the fight to this disease.
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