rip steve jobs

[talisman]

All I do is browse, download music, screw with photos, and write. Works perfect for my needs!

[FreightTrain]

All I do is browse, download music, screw with photos, and write. Works perfect for my needs!

AKA.... Watching porn.

[Ratt]

Again, unless Jobs built, coded and installed your MacbookAir, you are giving all the credit to a figurehead and ignoring the people who actually did the work. Posted from my Dell Laptop with Windoze which in 3 years hasn't had a single virus or issue.

I guess I misunderstood that Apple was just a one-person company and Jobs shat out iPhones/iPods from his golden asshole. Guess all those other people at Apple are just there to bask in the heavenly gloriousness that is Saint Jobs.

(I don't dislike Jobs, but what I do dislike is the fanboy fawning over someone who is a figurehead and making them into some sort of idol. I saw a stupid motherfucker this morning with electrical tape on the back of his iPhone like a mourning band and couldn't help to feel sorry for him)

While I agree with you, he made several hard decisions that others probably would not have made and put Apple on the right track to make it profitable. I don't have faith that Cook can do the same, so everyone who dislikes Apple may see its downfall in the not-so-distant future.

[CJ]

While I agree with you, he made several hard decisions that others probably would not have made and put Apple on the right track to make it profitable. I don't have faith that Cook can do the same, so everyone who dislikes Apple may see its downfall in the not-so-distant future.

He also got fired for taking Apple off track too, don't forget that. But I agree he was an amazing guy and he helped rise Apple from their own proprietary ashes once again. I just don't think they are going to be able to hold this market share with the same mistake they've always made, failure to go open market with their platforms.

[talisman]

He also got fired for taking Apple off track too, don't forget that. But I agree he was an amazing guy and he helped rise Apple from their own proprietary ashes once again. I just don't think they are going to be able to hold this market share with the same mistake they've always made, failure to go open market with their platforms.

People often have to fail and learn from their mistakes before becoming a success. There is no linear route to reinvention and innovation.

[CJ]

People often have to fail and learn from their mistakes before becoming a success. There is no linear route to reinvention and innovation.

Agreed. I have a lot of appreciation for the guy even being someone who's own success is directly targeted at destroying his products. Which is odd, I still have this odd draw to those products for some reason. I can't say I've ever really been disappointed in any Apple product I've owned, they are just limited by their proprietary platforms. I can't do what I want to do with them.

[Ratt]

He also got fired for taking Apple off track too, don't forget that. But I agree he was an amazing guy and he helped rise Apple from their own proprietary ashes once again. I just don't think they are going to be able to hold this market share with the same mistake they've always made, failure to go open market with their platforms.

Well, "off-track" to the people who fired him was "in line with what we want to do" for the people who hired him back. Apple might have a larger market-share now if they had listened to him then. Of course, the opposite could be true as well.

[CJ]

Well, "off-track" to the people who fired him was "in line with what we want to do" for the people who hired him back. Apple might have a larger market-share now if they had listened to him then. Of course, the opposite could be true as well.

Well, Steve Jobs apologized for his errors afterwards, so something tells me he was the one who made the mistake, but I have no idea.

[Ratt]

Well, Steve Jobs apologized for his errors afterwards, so something tells me he was the one who made the mistake, but I have no idea.

I think, and I may just be remembering incorrectly, that he wanted to go the software route, like Microsoft and Windows. If they had done that, we might not have ended up with the cool gadgets we have nowadays.

[Nash B.]

Well, Steve Jobs apologized for his errors afterwards, so something tells me he was the one who made the mistake, but I have no idea.

Ya, he said in his commencement speech at Stanford that getting fired "freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life" and (either said or implied) that he might not have come up with the stuff he'd come up with if he hadn't been fired.

[CJ]

Ya, he said in his commencement speech at Stanford that getting fired "freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life" and (either said or implied) that he might not have come up with the stuff he'd come up with if he hadn't been fired.

Yeah I listened to that whole thing also. I respect the guy a lot, he is a true example of American ingenuity and vision.

[Momentomoir]

I haven't had ANY virus protection at all on my workstation for the last 4 years, and I have yet to get any malicious virus. I'm just careful when I click on. Mac's are great for browsing and other casual things. But very limited when it comes to work computers, or production systems. And gaming is laughable.

Mac and gaming.... I agree

Regardless of the cause, I'm concerned with the effect of having a computer that operates the way I expect it to after forking out the money for it.

Every PC I have had has worked perfectly fine, games great. Never had a virus, or any other type of issues.
Besides i can spend 1000 less or i can spend the same amount of money i would on a "topline" Mac and come out with a better pc, fully water cooled and still have money left over

[talisman]

Mac and gaming.... I agree

Every PC I have had has worked perfectly fine, games great. Never had a virus, or any other type of issues.
Besides i can spend 1000 less or i can spend the same amount of money i would on a "topline" Mac and come out with a better pc, fully water cooled and still have money left over

Yet with all that, you still don't know how to use the spell check.

[Bassics]

Sad day for all tech fans even if they don't know why. I grew up using an Apple IIc, then a 2e. Steve Jobs and Wozniak dared to challenge the great IBM and its clones to do something different. A LOT of people are glad they did. Those who haven't used anything Apple...they won't get it and don't care.


Sent from my Macbook Pro.

Funny how their challenge didn't include a damn color monitor, a floppy drive or a mouse with more than one button.

I ran a GIS lab for credits, I had one 286 that would do everything and a bunch of these little macs that barely worked. After a semester, software upgrades made them pretty much non-functional for what we used in the lab. Somehow or another it was IBM's fault, or so I was told. Right.

And I also worked at apple when I lived an CA. I worked as a temp, and built and maintained conveyers and other equipment. Out of 5 people I was the only one who applied for an opening when it came up, and was told that they couldn't hire me because they needed more minorities to comply with company policy. Then they grabbed a random chicano from the floor who didn't know crap and gave him the job out of the blue. His first assignment was to let me go specifically.

When I left i reminded him that he better not use the product elevator until they set the brakes, and that I never got a chance to put the new ones on and test them. As I was clocking out I started hearing crashes and shattering crap from the floor, and smiled. learn english bitch! Hahaha!

LOL @ steve jobs and his aids infested self being anything great.

[Bassics]

Let's clarify this forever. Programmers don't target an OS with 8% of users on it. Mac OS isn't popular enough to merit the work involved in writing a virus for it. It isn't like Mac OS is an amazingly secure OS.

Ironicaly the first virus only worked on an apple. It was transferred via floppy.