Steve Jobs passed away?

[tetrapod]

http://www.apple.com/stevejobs/


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[zena]

I cried my eyes out.  It was a very sad moment for me when I found out....for many reasons. 

[kyrie_eleison]

I can still remember the old Apple IIc.  That thing was an amazing piece of science.  Then Bill Gates came along and fu-cked it all up.

[evil-in-deed]

this was a great speech about his life and achievements.. .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc

[zena]

I watched that speech too.  Very inspiring.

btw, check this out:



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[zena]

I'm sure he was a jerk and I believe he is admired for those things you said.

His words.

[zena]

Why does it bother you that these guys appear like jerks?  Who doesn't appear a jerk and is successful?

btw, I like Simon Cowell.  Big jerk.  I know.

[obscurity]

Steve Job should only be admire as someone who was creative, innovative, and etc...  Steve Job is a ducking jerk...almost heartless you might say or a fierce competitor.

[obscurity]

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Jobs-questioned-authority-all-apf-1873950574.html?x=0

Isaacson wrote that Jobs was livid in January 2010 when HTC introduced an Android phone that boasted many of the popular features of the iPhone. Apple sued, and Jobs told Isaacson in an expletive-laced rant that Google's actions amounted to "grand theft."

 "I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong," Jobs said. "I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this."

 Jobs used an expletive to describe Android and Google Docs, Google's Internet-based word processing program. In a subsequent meeting with Schmidt at a Palo Alto, Calif., cafe, Jobs told Schmidt that he wasn't interested in settling the lawsuit, the book says.

 "I don't want your money. If you offer me $5 billion, I won't want it. I've got plenty of money. I want you to stop using our ideas in Android, that's all I want." The meeting, Isaacson wrote, resolved nothing.

[evil-in-deed]

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Jobs-questioned-authority-all-apf-1873950574.html?x=0

steve jobs will always get robbed...

[obscurity]

steve jobs will always get robbed...

its not like he didnt do his share of robbing either, blame it on karma

[obscurity]

Without Steve Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) we would have:
 No iProducts
 No over expensive laptops

 Without Dennis Ritchie (September 9, 1941 – October 12, 2011) we would have:
 No Windows
 No Unix
 No C
 No Programs
 A large setback in computing
 No Generic-text Languages.
 We would all read in Binary..

 They died in the same year and the same month but it seems only few notice the death of Dennis Ritchie compared to Steve Jobs.

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[kyrie_eleison]

Bill Gates is a jerk too when he was young...arrogr ant, felt he was smarter than the rest...but as he became older he worried more about his lasting legacy and picked up the mantel from Andrew Carnegie.  This is why Gates > Jobs.  Apple only caught up because Gates the visionary left.  We would have the digital nervous system today if Gates was younger.

or maybe he destroyed the world enough with his garbage operating system and he felt that the cross-hairs are getting closer and closer. 

[zena]

Without Steve Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) we would have:
 No iProducts
 No over expensive laptops

 Without Dennis Ritchie (September 9, 1941 – October 12, 2011) we would have:
 No Windows
 No Unix
 No C
 No Programs
 A large setback in computing
 No Generic-text Languages.
 We would all read in Binary..

 They died in the same year and the same month but it seems only few notice the death of Dennis Ritchie compared to Steve Jobs.

 It won't cost you anything to press the share button so spread it !

Most people don't know anything about Unix, C, programming, etc.  And, those who do...most of them do it for their jobs, for the money, not because they admire the man who came up with it.  They really could careless.  That is probably why he is not as well known.  Those who do know him probably studied computer science or IT and his name came up as the creator of such and such in a book or from a lecture.  Jobs on the other hand created pretty awesome technology for the general public.  He fancied it up so that people will want to own it and play with it.  He stood out there shamelessly promoting himself in his ideas until the day he died.  Maybe if Ritchie promoted his ideas to the world the same way Jobs did, he'd get a similar recognition.

Even by sharing that Ritchie created so much more than Jobs, no one would care because they don't know the importance of his products.  Just something to think about.