RIP Steve Jobs
 

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(AP) -- Apple says Steve Jobs has died.


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

Found pics of his casket.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8_2GH_GJdj...t%2BIphone.jpg

Only $600 more than your average casket.

Holy shit.

http://www.tmz.com/2011/09/09/steve-.../#.Tozrw2V9tI4

So far, being reported as false.

No app for that?

Good timing.

At least it wasn't a virus.

This has to be iphone4S hater prank

Go to cnn or fox news its all over it.

WTF is this? Did they just substitute "died" for "retired" and reprint the story?

http://www.fox2now.com/news/ktla-app...,3239023.story

whoa guys, i own a iphone and a macbook pro this is all way too soon for me

Apple Visionary Steve Jobs Dies At 56

by Laura Sydell

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October 5, 2011

Steve Jobs — the man who brought us the iPhone, the iPod and the iMac — has died. The co-founder of Apple was 56 years old. Jobs had been battling a rare form of pancreatic cancer for years.

"It boggles the mind to think of all the things that Steve Jobs did," says Silicon Valley venture capitalist Roger McNamee, who worked with Jobs.

McNamee says that in addition to introducing us to desktop publishing and computer animated movies, Jobs should be credited with creating the first commercially successful computer.

"Any one of those would have qualified him as one of the great executives in American history," McNamee says, "the sum of which put him in a place where no one else has ever been before. To me he is of his era what Thomas Edison was to the beginning of the 20th century."

Jobs was just 21 when he co-founded Apple Computer in his garage in Cupertino, Calif., in 1976. The following year, when Jobs and his partner, Steve Wozniak, released the compact Apple II, most computers were big enough to fill a university basement or came from do-it-yourself kits for hobbyists with soldering irons.
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Steve Jobs, The Man At Apple's Core

With sound and cutting-edge color graphics, Apple II was the first blockbuster desktop computer. Users could hook it up to their TV sets to play games, and its spreadsheet program made it popular with small businesses.

"It made Apple the biggest computer manufacturer in the nascent computer industry," says Leander Kahney, author of Inside Steve's Brain.

But in 1981, Apple got its first taste of serious competition, when IBM released its own personal computer. IBM had the advantage of a well-known, trusted name, and Jobs — a California boy — loathed the kind of conformist East Coast culture it represented.

So he countered with the Macintosh, the first computer to feature a mouse, pull-down menus and icons — thus eliminating the command-line interface.

"Jobs' idea was that we'll make it easy enough that anybody can do it ... a grandmother, a kid, people who don't have any experience," Kahney says. The Mac was an example of the kind of product that would come to define Jobs' entire career: easy-to-use computers.

That's the message Jobs sent to millions when he released the Mac in 1984. In an ad that aired once during the Super Bowl, a woman dressed in brightly colored shorts runs into a room of gray-looking people and throws a sledgehammer at a screen where Big Brother — read IBM — is talking. The minute-long reference to George Orwell's 1984 became one of the most famous television commercials of all time.
Jobs leans on the new Macintosh personal computer following a shareholder's meeting in Cupertino, Ca., in 1984.
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Jobs leans on the new Macintosh personal computer following a shareholder's meeting in Cupertino, Ca., in 1984.

It also illustrated Jobs' belief that computers were tools to unleash human creativity. In an interview for the 1996 PBS documentary Triumph of the Nerds, Jobs said, "Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world."

In many ways Jobs was the poet of the computer world. He'd gone to India and become a Buddhist. He took LSD and believed it had opened his mind to new ways of thinking.

But Jobs' iconoclastic ideals did not always make him easy to work with.

"He was just a terrible manager and a terrible executive," says Trip Hawkins, the marketing director of Apple until 1982. "At that point in time I never really thought that he could be a CEO."

Jobs was eventually fired in a 1985 boardroom coup led by John Sculley — the man Jobs himself had hired to be CEO of Apple. But Jobs was driven to make computers vehicles for creativity, and after he left Apple, he purchased a little-known division of Lucas film and renamed it Pixar.

In 1995, Pixar released the first animated feature to be done entirely on computers. That film, Toy Story, was a huge success, and Pixar followed it with other big hits including Monsters, Inc., The Incredibles and Finding Nemo.

But Apple didn't exactly thrive in the years after Jobs' departure. With less than 5 percent of the computer market in its possession and analysts predicting the company's demise, the board invited Jobs to come back and run his old business.

In 1998, as interim CEO of Apple, Jobs introduced the iMac and once again helped remake the computer industry. According to venture capitalist McNamee, the iMac was the first computer made to harness the creative potential of the Internet.

"The iMac reflected the transition of consumers from passive consumption of content to active creation of entertainment," McNamee says. "People could write their own blogs, make their own digital photographs and make their own movies. Apple made all the tools to make that easy and they did at a time when Microsoft just wasn't paying attention."

Three years after the iMac, Jobs announced Apple's expansion into the music industry with a breakthrough MP3 player — the iPod.

"This is not a speculative market," he said as he introduced the iPod in 2001. "It's a part of everyone's life. It's a very large target market all around the world."

The iPod was a classic Jobs product — easy to use and nice to look at. Apple sold tens of millions of iPods, and the iTunes store became the No. 1 music retailer.

Six years later, Apple released the iPhone — a device whose elegance and user friendliness blew other phone/music players out of the water.

In 2010, Apple created yet another groundbreaking device with the introduction of the iPad. With its color touch-screen, the tablet gave users the ability to surf the Web, send e-mail, watch videos and read e-books.

Book publishers weren't the only ones to embrace the new tablet. A host of magazines, newspapers and broadcast news organizations, including The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal and NPR, created iPad-specific apps that helped showcase stories — and images — in a tabloid-style layout.

And in January 2011, Apple reached a milestone by surpassing 10 billion downloads from its App Store — a sign of just how popular the company's devices have become with consumers.

"Simplifying complexity is not simple," says Susan Rockrise, a creative director who worked with Jobs. "It is the greatest, greatest gift to have someone who has Steve's capabilities as an editor and a product designer edit the crap away so that you can focus on what you want to do."

Rockrise believes Jobs touched pretty much anyone who has ever clicked a mouse, sent a photo over the Internet, published a book from a home computer or enjoyed portable music or a computer-animated movie.

She says they all have Jobs to thank for making it happen.

http://www.npr.org/2011/10/05/123826...obs-dies-at-56

Sad.

**** damn good dude. Funnier than shit on the phone. Even before he had a iPhone. ****ing brilliant guy.

He really must have hated the Iphone 4s idea

I'm setting the ringtone on my iphone to Kumbaya.

F@@K Cancer!

FakeBibleVerse Jesus H. Christ I just wanted Steve Jobs up here so I could get the iPhone 5 before y'all motha****as.

rip though, srs

Wow, that'll make this release the most expensive collector's item ever!

Introducing the iCostume:

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Wow....RIP....a true visionary

Big big loss.
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PC GAMING MASTER RACE

R.I.P.

56 is way too young to die.

The biggest scam artist the world has ever known.

Says the 30 year old guy who sits at home all day and does nothing with his life.

Bummer. I met him once; intense dude. Never gave off the douchey vibe, mostly just very, very intense.

Matt Cassel.

One less greedy mother****er. Maybe more of them will pass so they can quit hoardin all the money.

Jeez....that's a shocker. They come in threes, right? Bill Gates' bodyguards are on 24/7 watch right now.

Balmer is the one that should be worried.

At least I'm still alive.

SUCK IT, JOBS!

Yeah he was but he could relax and be funny as crap. He was always the smartest guy in room even when Gates was in the room.

iRIP

After iTunes, this was karma coming for you, jobs.

Dumbass.

I'm going to find his grave and spray paint the windows logo on it.

ROFL

lol, they requested moments of silence at apple stores

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So I switched from being alive to being dead because it just works. You don't have to go to work, you don't have to worry about computer crashes, and you don't even have to breathe. It's just the best thing ever. It really is.

I'm Steve Jobs, and I'm a corpse

Whether you like him or not, he did beget a profound commencement speech back in 2005. I've kept the video bookmarked because it's about living each day as though it is your last. That was a powerful motivator for him.

http://youtu.be/D1R-jKKp3NA

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.

I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.

This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope it's the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:

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.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

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He tried calling 911 but AT&T dropped the call.

Sucks. The man knew how to revolutionize. A real genius of our time.

By the way, I own a MacBook. I love it for work.

But my problem is I love dead Steve Jobs jokes more.

You're a ****ing douchbag but that was still funny as hell

ROFL

Good night, sweet prince.
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Odd that I just finished installing Windows 7 x64 last night.

Even though I detest apple fanboys and think many of apple's products are overpriced and over-marketed garbage.

The man changed virtually every American citizen's daily life with the ipod and iphone, that is a rare occurrence in today's world. He was a genius and a revolutionary inventor. RIP

Spot on.
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I hate cancer, really was hoping he'd beat it's ass and come back to lead Apple again.

LMAO

Steve Jobs did not invent the mp3 player or the smartphone.

**** iPods. Mp3 players were around long before the iPod. Just like search engines existed long before Google was even conceived. Google didn't do anything original. Same with Apple's iPod. They just made successful products in their respective markets. Congrats, but you didn't change the world.

Or this.

Who cares, he revolutionized them and made them accessible to the masses. Just because some crappy version of each existed that no one wanted to use, that's not the relevant part.

While that may be true, it is hard to argue that the man was not a visionary.

RIP Steve.

Why did you post a pic of the good Steve? You know, the one who ACTUALLY invented stuff... Steve Wozniak.

RIP Steve. Sad day for Apple as they will probably start losing their dominance in the near future.

LMAO

You are a freaking idiot. I used to have a Creative Nomad Jukebox. It was an awesome mp3 player. It was widely sold...I mean you could go down to freaking Wal Mart and get one. Came out well before the iPod.

GTFO Apple idiots.

Get ****ed, you lowlife piece of shit.

The guy was a complete visionary and it's sad that someone in their mid 50's died like this.

But please continue on because you're too ****ing poor to afford one of the devices he created. I'm sure it's his greed that led to your horrid existance.

317 patents.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...l?ref=business

It figures that Claynus would make this thread about him and his hatred for all things Apple.

Just because someone else had the first of something doesn't mean it was the best or revolutionary.

Did I say that? No. But to come on here and act like the iPod was the first mp3 player or the first one "available to the masses" is LMAO

You can't help but laugh at people that act as though Apple, and by extension Steve Jobs, did nothing.

That new Ferrari is a piece of shit, the model T beat it's ass to market by decades!!!

I've never owned anything apple exept for playing oregan trail on apple II e. So if he was apart of that. Thanks

You're right, Steve Jobs and Apple contributed absolutely nothing to this society over the past ten years.

No, but it was definitely the first one to get it right in terms of appeal for the masses. Early MP3 players were a pain in the ass to use (comparatively speaking, that is).

The Creative Nomad Jukebox = The Matt Cassel of MP3 players.

Wow, butthurt much?

I appreciate what Steve Jobs did for society but let's not make him out to be something he isn't, mmkay? He did not change every American's life with the iPod. Christ. :rolleyes:

No but the iPod and iTunes revolutionized that market and the music industry.

That's not accurate, because a lot of people have heard of Matt Cassel.

the iPod is so dominate Microsoft just killed the Zune

Hmm.. The Creative Nomad Jukebox = Sabby Piscitelli?