Merged Steve Jobs has died.

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I still have my Apple IIe from my childhood. I don't know if it works or not, haven't taken it out of the attic in years, but I fondly remember learning to write BASIC games and what-not. And I remember playing HHGTTG from Infocom and other games on it. If it weren't for my Apple II, I suspect I wouldn't be nearly so comfortable with computers today. I grew up with that thing, and even into the 1990's, I played Apple games on an emulator on a more modern PC.
 
Beerina said:
For those of you who think the big bloated committees called government drive society forward, just look what one guy did to a struggling company. No clueless clod subservient to the political narratives that sound good and get you elected, he just did what he did, and free people chose to buy his product.
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Jobs's marketing methods for apple and those of most modern politicians have only a limited number of differences. Jobs was better at it than most mind.
 
Off the top of my head, after a bunch of beers:

  1. Leonardo DaVinci
  2. Ben Franklin
  3. Alexander Graham Bell
  4. Thomas Edison
  5. The Wright Brothers
  6. Henry Ford
  7. David Sarnoff
  8. Thomas Watson
  9. Steve Jobs

He belongs on the list. Period.
 
The first real personal computer I touched, at least 25 years ago, was an Apple IIc.

I got the news alert tonight on my iPhone.

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Meh.

He was part of the problem, not any part of a solution.

But he did well at that.

A lot of flash, not much boom, since about 1984.

The best thing he ever did was kick start IBM out of its inertia.

Not a bad thing, all said and done.
 
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I can appreciate the loss for people who like technology, but except for my computer, pen and paper still work fine for me.
 
The Central Scrutinizer said:
Rip Van Winkle? I didn't know you were real!
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All Steve did was feed Short Attention Span America and make popular the idea that education wasn't important.

"I didn't even know what a pancreas was."

This, part of his address to Stanford, is part of a stream of verbal feces hailed as laudable.

Sorry, I an't a Jobs fanboi.

Those of you who are: you too, are part of the problem.
 
Darth Rotor said:
Those of you who are: you too, are part of the problem.
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Hey, watch what you say! He's the man who took a great invention (the Macintosh, which he of course didn't invent) and managed to foolishly price it in such a way that it would never compete properly with Microsoft/x86.

Greatness.
 
Very sad. I'm really shocked that he kept his position at Apple so close to the end of his life. The guy certainly had a strong work ethic.
 
Darth Rotor said:
All Steve did was feed Short Attention Span America and make popular the idea that education wasn't important.

"I didn't even know what a pancreas was."

This, part of his address to Stanford, is part of a stream of verbal feces hailed as laudable.

Sorry, I an't a Jobs fanboi.

Those of you who are: you too, are part of the problem.
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This is satire, right?
 
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