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Stathol
 Post subject: Re: RIP Steve Jobs
PostPosted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 12:52 pm 
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All of this reminds me of a book I read quite a few years ago: West of Eden: The End of Innocence at Apple Computer, by Frank Rose. It's a definite "must read" if you really want to understand Steve Jobs. The author contributed an article to Wired a few months ago based on the book and everything that transpired since then:

The End of Innocence: What Happened After Apple Fired Steve Jobs

It makes a rather fitting eulogy, I think.

Finally, a bit of levity I'm stealing from reddit. Not in bad taste (IMHO) but I'm spoilering it anyway in case it's "too soon":
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Someone brought me to the realization last night that Steve jobs was finally done in by [the] PC.

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Stathol wrote:
Finally, a bit of levity I'm stealing from reddit. Not in bad taste (IMHO) but I'm spoilering it anyway in case it's "too soon":
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I suspect Steve would enjoy being remembered that way.

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http://allthingsd.com/20111005/the-steve-jobs-i-knew/#

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For our fifth D conference, both Steve and his longtime rival, the brilliant Bill Gates, surprisingly agreed to a joint appearance, their first extended onstage joint interview ever. But it almost got derailed.

Earlier in the day, before Gates arrived, I did a solo onstage interview with Jobs, and asked him what it was like to be a major Windows developer, since Apple’s iTunes program was by then installed on hundreds of millions of Windows PCs.

He quipped: “It’s like giving a glass of ice water to someone in Hell.” When Gates later arrived and heard about the comment, he was, naturally, enraged, because my partner Kara Swisher and I had assured both men that we hoped to keep the joint session on a high plane.

In a pre-interview meeting, Gates said to Jobs: “So I guess I’m the representative from Hell.” Jobs merely handed Gates a cold bottle of water he was carrying. The tension was broken, and the interview was a triumph, with both men acting like statesmen. When it was over, the audience rose in a standing ovation, some of them in tears.
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 Post subject: Re: RIP Steve Jobs
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Rorinthas wrote:
I'm not surprised.

It's sad that he's gone and kind of poignant that he's passing at such a time that the American Capitalist is under such hatred and attack.

I want to see if I can find movie that was made about him now and watch it again in tribute.

It seems Google Video has the whole thing if anyone would like to join me.

TNT is honoring Jobs with a couple of re-airings of Pirates of Silicon Valley tonight.

That's Bender Bending Rodriguez as Steve Ballmer, btw. :)
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Except he didn't.
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Lenas wrote:
Someone brought me to the realization last night that Steve jobs was finally done in by [the] PC.

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While so wrong, this made me LOL.
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When I heard the news, iDied a little inside.
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Westbungholes are planning to protest.

God hates iPhones

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Nope, God created iPhones...

http://twitter.com/#!/MargieJPhelps/sta ... 3094142978
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Rebels mad cuz I used iPhone to tell you Steve Jobs is in hell.God created iPhone for that purpose! :)


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 Post subject: Re: RIP Steve Jobs
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Mookhow wrote:
Nope, God created iPhones...

http://twitter.com/#!/MargieJPhelps/sta ... 3094142978
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Rebels mad cuz I used iPhone to tell you Steve Jobs is in hell.God created iPhone for that purpose! :)


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Corporations made iPhones. **** the corporations, man. #occupywallstreet
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While this is about Steve Jobs retirement, it's still relevant now in eulogy.
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Man I love basic instructions. I think I've read the entire series 2 or 3 times now.
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In response to Talya:

All technology is based off of a similar technology. So everyone is "copying".

"If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants." - Isaac Newton
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Man... It doesn't care what you've done for the world, or how many lives you've saved. It doesn't care if your were a great visionary, or a great leader. It doesn't care what the world thinks of you. In the end, with a raw efficiency that government only dreams it could emulate, it makes us all equal.

Cancer sucks.

God bless you, Mr. Jobs, and thank you for the future.

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