Wow, such an explosive thread. Just thought I'd say. Those saying to have some respect, fair enough, a man died. But on the other hand, he was at the end of the day, just a man and anyone pretending his death affected you on any personal level is insulting to anyone who was genuinely close to him. It's kind of like turning up at the funeral of someone you've never met and sobbing loudest as the casket disappears into the furnace. There's a reason people say "i'm sorry for your loss", because it's your loss not theirs. Depending on who they are they may care that you're upset, but at the end of the day they're not going to go home and cry themselves to sleep remembering your dead grandfather. Were he my grandfather I would have cried of course, but he wasn't, to me he was just some guy who sold products for double what they were worth just becuase there's a picture of some fruit on it. He was clearly clever for being able to do that and it is indeed sad that anyone has to die that young. Nobody is perfect, regardless of their percieved accomplishments and contributions to the world, Winston chruchill, for example was an overweight alcoholic. To truly appreciate someone's life, you have to appreciate thaier faults as well as their strengths and to refuse to acknowledge anything but the good aspects of a person can only serve to devalue that person's experiences and the life they've lead.
Sure. I agree. But I respect that Apple has intentionally remained 'premium' and has not joined other companies in the 'race to the bottom'. All their products are items that I feel they would use themselves, and are proud to sell. The packaging communicates that. And there is never an excuse for preloaded crapware, ever. It's like someone just shat all over my new laptop, and it is all crap that is not needed. Assistant this, and manager that. Uninstall it all- Windows does a perfectly good job of that on it's own! Let's just all agree to disagree then. Hugs anybody?
They clearly blew into the "play" realm... arguably since their inception for some, probably 10-15 years ago for Joe Blow. It's easy once you have the knowledge to bash people that have no desire to learn how their computer really works, nor how to fix it. The truth is, most people don't. They want something that works. No more, no less.
Dennis Richie? That's terrible. He changed computing and goes unnoticed. Steve Jobs sells shitty computers and is mourned by all. Now,they're both in the great /dev/null in the sky.
I agree with the posts above. As much as I was getting weary of people treating SJ like some kind of saint, the degree to which Richie's death is ignored by mainstream media is offensive in its own right. Truly a transformative man.
I didn't even know Ritchie had passed away until I saw this thread. A shame that someone that actually made a major legitimate contribution to the realm of computers was ignored, while the sleazy salesman was mourned by everyone and their mother... :banghead:
All I see is people hatting on steve because he stacks more paper in a week than you will make a in a lifetime. :clap: Congrats this is totally not a waste of time that you have spent on this thread "sarcasm strikes deep". He earned his money yet you make him look like hitler for have that money. So much hate derived from jealousy.Dude worked his ass off to get where he was So fuck off you hatting little shitheads. Try to look at life in a neutral perspective to calculate you decisions.
I'm sorry takeshi385 but charging people for service packs and charging them 2-4x what components cost in the shops is pure scam. There isn't much of a margin to be made in hardware but he managed to con the unenlightened. I sorta got a temptation to buy an iPad 2 now but meh... if I did will be basic WiFi 16gb model only to avoid the scam of the other models - and even then @ £400 it would still be overpriced Anyhow did they put Steve in the ground yet?
You really need to shut the fuck up and think before you speak. To say anybody has compared him to Hitler and has said "im glad he's dead" Is ridiculous. Nice one thinking your theory is the be all and end all though. I don't dislike Steve Jobs because he made more money than me, it's not jealousy. I dislike Apple because of the proprietary overpriced bullshit they sold you arrogant prick.
I'm sure many people who expressed bitter feelings towards the late Steve Jobs would have acted like proper adults if they were actually seeing the dead body. It's stupid to fight over stupid things, this has been off topic for quite a while. Whether you like a company or not is better expressed by your choices than your words. No point fighting over a dead guy anyway.
Barc0de, as some people may get. Then I joked , and then some dude (I think) began calling us all cold hearted bastards and stuff like that. And then K-Panggg and I began to mention we both have lost people we loved to cancer to counter balance the so-called heated discussion. And then GP began his cool sarcastic stuff, where I Began to make (spelling) mistakes on purpose in the vain of GP´s sarcasm. And then Yakumo-sama went in and cleaned up the "mess", and now we are having a few Apple fan-boys who seems to go crazy. If we joke and die a little at the same time. People are handling death in many ways, cancer affects us all in some ways. The last time I saw my mothers brother, I would not have known, that it became the last time I saw him. Which was on my mothers birthday on the 31. of December 2010, and then he died late on the 19. of June 2011 (of lung-cancer), which was my birthday, the next day I was at the cinema with my sister. And I asked her, if she wanted to play some arcade games afterwards, when we had seen X-MEN First Class. And she said, "no let us take a walk afterwards". And there she told me "you know uncle John", and suddenly I felt his "living" energy pass through me like a ghost, and then I knew what she was about to say. So if somebody thinks I am a cold hearted bastard, then my answer is "fuck you !, And the horse you rode in on !". I have lost three people I know to cancer, two of them to lung-cancer and one to an aggressive form of ovarian cancer. And for one year, after the person who died of ovarian cancer, there I drank ONE pint of Magners Cider every Friday, cause I felt I needed it, and I have not drank any Magners Cider since. So cancer does have an affect on me.
