Steve Jobs dies at 56

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R.I.P. I learned how to use computers with a Mac, and I've always preferred their interface to Windows.

You know what's awesome about this thread? No one has turned it into a "OMG DID HE HAVE ASPERGERS" thread.

Dear Fnord; your post? Perfect. Just perfect...Sylkat

Apple's homepage tribute to it's founder

I applaud them for that.

Dear PM, thank you so much for sharing that with us. Sylkat

I love my i pod and would not part with it for the world. It helps me exercise faster and longer because I have rhythm to keep pace with and I do not get bored so quickly. He brought a lot of good to the world.

I remember my brother had bought an Apple when I was growing up. Those were pretty big back then.

why are you guys so upset at job's death? i'm sure as hell the workers in china dont give a damn. you know about his contract with foxconn right? the company where work conditions are so bad that there are nets outside the windows to prevent people from suiciding and where dont kill yourself was written into workers contracts? jobs was complicit in foxconns evil by having a contract with this company and maybe you guys should read more about them before hailing jobs as some sort of god just because he was a great inventor. and just to be clear im not saying everyone who owns apple equipment is evil. this stuff is scary. read it:

http://colorlines.com/archives/2011/09/ ... onics.html

"Real outpourings of public grief should be reserved for those people who lived life so heroically and selflessly that they stand as shining examples of love for all of humanity. People like, for example, the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, who—along with his family—was bombed, beaten, and stabbed during his years of principled activism in the US civil rights movement. Shuttlesworth died yesterday, the same day as Steve Jobs. He did not die a billionaire."

From a gawker article.
Have to agree, I respect the guy for what he did, but he needs to be recognized properly. He was a marketing genius, I mean mp3 players, tablet PCs, internet music stores and smart phones were all around years before apple stepped into those markets but like introducing the home PC to the everyday consumer in the 70s he knew how to market those products which before Apple were limited to niche markets. He made geek items cool for everyone to own.

But if you removed that from the equation and just looked at the person what do you have? A man who died a billionare without lifting a pen to write a check to charity, a man who lied and stole from friends, a man who refused to pay child support, even lying in court after paternity tests proved he was the father, a boss who had such nightmarish stories going around by people who couldn't stand to work for him that Apple began making all their employees sign non-disclosure contracts so they couldn't talk about Jobs after they quit. A man who backed and supported child labor.




I was talking about this earlier in the year and found it pretty amusing. At the end of the 90s everyone was all over Gates as an evil monopolizing money hog and how Apple was the opposite of that. Now-a-days? Gates has spent money on charity far faster then he ever made it and runs one of the largest charitable organizations the world has ever seen. While Jobs was adamantly avoided charity, paid police under the table to raid bloggers homes for talking about their products without their consent and backed child labor companies.

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