Steve Jobs Dead...

[Czech]

Downhome's daughter is hot!

 

[Angle-plex]

Never Forget.

 

[Mattdotcom]

not only apple, he is the founder of pixar animations.

 

[Jaxxxson Mayhem]

not only apple, he is the founder of pixar animations.

No he didn't. He bought Pixar in 86.

 

[Mattdotcom]

Spoiler

We're now at the stage where I copy and paste things

 

[wnyxmcneal]

Downhome killed Steve Jobs to spoil Mark Henry's title reign?

 

[Incandenza]

"Steve Jobs Dead" is pidgin English. Why do people on this board continue to create thread titles like "Famous Person Dead" whenever a famous person dies? What's wrong with using verbs?

 

[Smues]

It intrigues the reader. Steve Jobs dead what? His dead dog? His dead wife? His dead liver? I must click this thread and find out!

 

[Incandenza]

Imagine posting that way, in, say, the Fast Food Burger Shootout thread. "I hungry. I Burger King. I California Whopper. Awful indigestion."

 

[KOAB]

All Steve Jobs created was marketing and a brilliant system designed to create an ongoing payment from you to him. The iWhatever are technically inferior to other market offerings. As for the tablet, um, I had a tablet PC 20 years ago...people knew what they were back then. We just didn't have the media shoving it down our throats because there was no App store/iTunes at that time. If they had Angry Birds back then, Apple would never have made it to where they are today.

Steve Jobs was a master of only one thing - convincing the public that it was cool to line his pockets. He did help to lead the way for micropayments, proprietary software that you could only get from him, and being part of a cool club that just costs you a little more. Technically, Apple is a testament to just how dumbed down the American public is and I can pretty much guarantee you that China or India will not care as much about looking cool when we end up working for them in sweat shops.

 

[Incandenza]

No one should ever write "um."

 

[Vitamin X]

Steve Jobs also was the guy who pretty much invented the first personal computer, so I think that should count for something, even if he didn't play as big of a role in actually designing the iMac/iPod/iMac/iPhone... and the first PC did what many of those devices did in revolutionizing them for every day use: Making them simple, functional, and accessible to people who had or have little to no technological capability. I hated Macs until I got this philosophy of simplifying things, and surprisingly you can still geek out with the command line or whatever- OSX is essentially an overpriced, closed-source, well polished Linux distro.

There's good reason why smartphones and tablet PCs didn't take off until the iPhone and iPad came out- Apple had the financial backing and UI know-how to make them accessible to the general public for everyday personal use and not just for business use, just like Jobs did with personal computing almost 30 years before. I don't think much of Jobs personally, and I do think the outpouring of grief for him is ridiculous, but it's hard to deny a lot of what he accomplished.

That said, the worship of Apple as a company is really, really disturbing.

 

[Czech]

Imagine posting that way, in, say, the Fast Food Burger Shootout thread. "I hungry. I Burger King. I California Whopper. Awful indigestion."

http://www.therealtsm.com/index.php?action=profile;u=30

 

[Incandenza]

At least he uses verbs!

 

[Mattdotcom]

Imagine posting that way, in, say, the Fast Food Burger Shootout thread. "I hungry. I Burger King. I California Whopper. Awful indigestion."

I can't imagine ever wanting a California Whopper.

 

[Mickey Massuco]

Steve Jobs also was the guy who pretty much invented the first personal computer

Nope: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_personal_computers#The_beginnings_of_the_personal_computer_industry

He was one of the first to take an existing model and tweak it for public consumption, which is what people don't understand about the guy; he's not a technological visionary, he's a great marketer, businessman and exploiter of trends. He didn't 'invent' anything, everything was there before him, he just knew how to take a good idea and make it mass-consumable.

The sanctification of Jobs as a tech genius is quite frustrating. I'm glad people here aren't as fucking stupid as most of my facebook newsfeed. It's doubly annoying because as stated earlier, most of the people were talking about Occupy Wall Street and now they're venerating a billionaire corporate egomaniac who was responsible for Chinese factories with working conditions so terrible that many of the people there killed themselves. UGH

 

[KOAB]

Steve Jobs also was the guy who pretty much invented the first personal computer.

No that would be Dr. Mark Dean. ​

 

[KOAB]

Steve Jobs was a backstabbing stealing piece of shit. RIP

 

[Mickey Massuco]

Typical western capitalist mindset, let's worship a guy who made a shitload of money because he did it with a product we all use, ignoring all the potentially unethical tricks he used in making said money and forcing said product on us. Fucking white people.

RIP

 

[Brooklyn Zoo]

Yeah, I think someone called him like the modern day Thomas Edison on my facebook feed. Actually I can't even find it. But I found this:

"Just told my 2 year old nephew that Steve Jobs died, he asked for more chicken nuggets. This generation has no respect!!!"

 

[Mickey Massuco]

Yeah someone called him a modern day Thomas Edison on my newsfeed too! haha wtf is wrong with people. In lieu of actual insight people will resort to making wild comparisons to make their point that he was a very important man.

I think I've seen like fifteen people change their profile picture to either the apple logo or a picture of Jobs himself, and it hasn't even been 24 hours.

 

[LPM]

Steve Jobs was a backstabbing stealing piece of shit. RIP

 

[Mickey Massuco]

Has Steve Jobs affected my life? Phone in my pocket while I study on my macbook wondering why don't I just do it on my 24 inch iMac. Ya I think he's had an affect. The Edison of our times...

 

[Sabre]

There needs to be an app for this.

 

[Mattdotcom]

I think I've seen like fifteen people change their profile picture to either the apple logo or a picture of Jobs himself, and it hasn't even been 24 hours.

Change your picture to the one I posted earlier.

 

[still fly]

Oh my god

 

[Brooklyn Zoo]

bahahahaha that's mad creepy.

 

[Incandenza]

Larry David?

 

[Mattdotcom]

Someone needs to add the burgeoning silhouette of an ass getting fucked the lower left.

 

[Brooklyn Zoo]

smitty?