News RIP Steve Jobs

**RealSNR** · 10-05-2011, 06:55 PM

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Originally Posted by COchief

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

**** 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.

Silock · 10-05-2011, 07:04 PM

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Originally Posted by SNR

**** 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.

317 patents.

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