I hope that the iphone 4s will be cheaper because Steve jobs past away.... but lucky for the family of steve jobs. they will inherit his fortune. hahaha

Tonight I mourn the passing of a marketing genius and make a few predictions about the future of his legacy.

Jobs could have sold manure to people that lived in mud huts. He could have sold ice cubes to penguins. So let's take a moment of silence to remember this amazing prensentator for what he truly was: A fine ad man.

Now,..

Remember 1994? You know? After Jobs left Apple? Yeah, it's the same situation now. All they really need to do is ditch the Mac in order to focus entirely on the iPad and it'd be deja vu all over again. For those of you that don't remember, they ditched the Apple IIgs in order to focus on the Mac the last time. Three years later, Apple had to be bailed out by Microsoft.

So I'm thinking that without Jobs, Apple is going to get devored by Google and Amazon. Not surprising really. PDAs died and led to the Blackberry which lead to the modern smart phone. The iPad will die and lead to a better eReader which will lead to the future A portable media devices. But Apple will pretty much be done unless they can find another genius to do their marketing.

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I don't harbor any real hate for Jobs...but damn it these people who are posting facebook statuses about him being some kind of fucking hero and changing their profile pictures and posting videos...those people are ridiculous to me.

It really just exemplifies that Apple is less about a product and more about a social/pop culture movement...one based on overpriced products designed for people who can't operate simple machinery.  That is, objectively, what Apple is.  For someone like me that works in a tech related field and has been the tech guy for his friends for years...Apple is just a freaking obnoxious company...and their consumers make thigns much much worse.

Kind of surprised no one has given him much credit for backing / helping a small group of people who formed the company called Pixar.  Lucas gave up on them and very few believed in them.  Steve allowed them the room to do things their way.   After a good length of time the result was sucess after success.  It's kind of funny because it's rumored that anyone who leaves Pixar to go to another company is often asked what Pixar's secret is. Go figure.

Wish we had a Steve Jobs backing a good group of developers on a MMo.

Edit:  Now that's freaky. After saying that last bit, I go to recent posts and see this..... http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/328737/page/1

Originally posted by Vato26

Originally posted by PukeBucket

Originally posted by Vato26

Originally posted by PukeBucket

Originally posted by Dekron

Originally posted by Illius

are we to expect the unveiling of the iCasket at his funeral?

Nope, it's the new iPod.

You guys are both gonna have to wait for iWake 2s to pass first.

Unless someone creates the iNecro first to turn him into ZombieJobs!

You trying to say Microsoft is gonna steal reanimating the dead technology?

[Looks at my prior post]

[Notes that Microsoft is never mentioned]

[Notes that I specifically said "anyone"]

Yeah... right. I'm watching you.

Originally posted by PukeBucket

Originally posted by Vato26

Originally posted by PukeBucket

Originally posted by Vato26

Originally posted by PukeBucket

Originally posted by Dekron

Originally posted by Illius

are we to expect the unveiling of the iCasket at his funeral?

Nope, it's the new iPod.

You guys are both gonna have to wait for iWake 2s to pass first.

Unless someone creates the iNecro first to turn him into ZombieJobs!

You trying to say Microsoft is gonna steal reanimating the dead technology?

[Looks at my prior post]

[Notes that Microsoft is never mentioned]

[Notes that I specifically said "anyone"]

Yeah... right. I'm watching you.

I cleaned up the language a bit here, please refer to the Language Policy when posting.

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Hope this MAC and APPLE gadgets will give some freebiezzz

THINK BBBRRAAAIINNNSSS!!!

good for him. at least he will no longer feel the pain

R.I.P Steve. Thanks for the iProducts.

I am temped to ask, what loot did he drop?

As a religious man I pray for all who suffer and die. However... he wasn't really a great man. Many inventions were made by others and he just claimed to have made them. And his biography shows he was a deeply selfish, nasty and unpleasant person in fact. But I guess humans need their hero fantasies.

Originally posted by Elikal

I am temped to ask, what loot did he drop?

As a religious man I pray for all who suffer and die. However... he wasn't really a great man. Many inventions were made by others and he just claimed to have made them. And his biography shows he was a deeply selfish, nasty and unpleasant person in fact. But I guess humans need their hero fantasies.

This.

I hate all of the idol worship that he's getting, it's disgusting...you know that Dennis Richie just died as well..the man who invented all of the code that Jobs used to get famous dies and nobody says a word.  The most disengenuous reason I've heard from a mac fan about it?  That Dennis Richie may not have wanted a lot of fanfare tied to his death.  Can we get an intellectually honest argument from one of these Jobs worshippers about this please?  How is it, that a man who was a brilliant inventor, who is responsible for all of Jobs' success, is hardly looked at upon his death, while Jobs is hailed as some sort of hero?  It really only speaks to this asinine mentality of Apple fans that their products somehow put them on a higher plane than others...it makes me sick.

lol I keep hearing the "no one appreciates Dennis Ritchie" thing but that's gotten tired. The New York Times and every other major publication has covered his death. Not to the level of Steve Jobs but why expect him to be appreciated as much as Steve Jobs was? He wasn't as public a figure. Not as many people write C as they use an iOS product or an iPod.  

I also don't think Steve Jobs claimed he invented ANYTHING first. His name is on some 300 of Apple's patents or more but its not like the guy pawned himself off as Billy Mayes. He preached and practiced high quality consumer products and a whole lot of people in the world loved them. That's all there is to it. 

Originally posted by Draenor

Originally posted by Elikal

I am temped to ask, what loot did he drop?

As a religious man I pray for all who suffer and die. However... he wasn't really a great man. Many inventions were made by others and he just claimed to have made them. And his biography shows he was a deeply selfish, nasty and unpleasant person in fact. But I guess humans need their hero fantasies.

This.

 

I hate all of the idol worship that he's getting, it's disgusting...you know that Dennis Richie just died as well..the man who invented all of the code that Jobs used to get famous dies and nobody says a word.  The most disengenuous reason I've heard from a mac fan about it?  That Dennis Richie may not have wanted a lot of fanfare tied to his death.  Can we get an intellectually honest argument from one of these Jobs worshippers about this please?  How is it, that a man who was a brilliant inventor, who is responsible for all of Jobs' success, is hardly looked at upon his death, while Jobs is hailed as some sort of hero?  It really only speaks to this asinine mentality of Apple fans that their products somehow put them on a higher plane than others...it makes me sick.

 

 

It's all about marketing. Steve Jobs managed to sell himself to the public to a ludicrous extent. But hey let people ideolise one of the many unethical business men who sold average products.

I wonder if Steve Jobs got uploaded to the cloud.

Originally posted by Sheista

I wonder if Steve Jobs got uploaded to the cloud.

Lol is that Jobs' version of hell?