www.apple.com/stevejobs
Discuss.
Though I use PCs, it would be hard to imagine the current state of the computing and technology without the ideas of Steve Jobs and the people of Apple. A pioneer, for sure.
So sad.
Dang it I just made this on Power Down. Oh well, no one goes there anyway.
Anyway, I'm not an Apple guy, but Steve Jobs has done a lot of awesome stuff (like, you know, practically inventing the personal computer), and it's a shame he died.
That's too bad. Now Apple needs to go.
Fuck Apple.
Quote from: Kayo on October 05, 2011, 05:14:16 PM
That's too bad. Now Apple needs to go.
Fuck Apple.
finally something we can agree on
I guess macs can get viruses
Well this is a surprise
Ate the poison apple.
The determining factor in whether or not Apple will continue be a leading company comes down to the actions of its new CEO. Whether or not you like Apple products, it's impossible to ignore the marketing genius that Steve Jobs perpetuated through his leadership.
If the CEO isn't even half as good as Steve Jobs, then Apple is more or less screwed out of its top-tier position.
I guess Steve Jobs didn't get the new iLife.
If by "marketing", you mean brainwashing consumers into thinking that buying a device makes you a part of a "community" and that memory(especially flash memory) is OMG SUPER EXPENSIVE YOU WANT 16 MORE GB YOU BEST PAY OUT THE ASS TO GET IT!!!!!! then yeah he was a genius. It worked after all.
i hate macs
Pretty much what Zero just said there. All they had to do was get enough people to buy the iPod because it was called an iPod, and now everyone's doing it. Technologically-impaired adults even think any and all MP3 players are called iPods. Does that mean they're the best? Nope. They're a brand name. You're paying to have the lowercase i at the beginning of your device's name and that image of a partially-eaten apple on the back of a product.
Sadly Apple won't die.
ITT: Nobody knows what Steve Jobs actually did in creating personal computers.
Quote from: Silverhawk79 on October 05, 2011, 08:35:29 PM
ITT: Nobody knows what Steve Jobs actually did in creating personal computers.
He drew the apple, intercourse er.
Steve Wozniak did quite a bit for Apple as well, if there were no Apple I and Apple II, there wouldn't have been a Macintosh.
The company had no idea what to do for the ten years Jobs was gone, and didn't do too well as a result. It was Jobs that came in with his prediction that MP3 players would be big and that people wanted a new kind of Mac. Then again, he did support the puck mouse and released the Twentieth Anniversary Mac. At least he killed off the Newton and clamped down on any third party users of MacOS.
I still don't get their popularity. Why would I buy an underpowered machine for way more than what a machine that is way more powerful? Image can only take a company so far, but it's taken them pretty far in the past decade, especially compared to where they were before.
Then again, Apple has always been like this. It's like they never got the memo in the early 2000s that computer parts were getting cheaper. They do tend to take advantage of people who want an easy system, but hey, it works. It's worked for over thirty years.
Add in the fact that they appeal to educational institutions, and they have a huge profit.
Quote from: Silverhawk79 on October 05, 2011, 08:35:29 PM
ITT: Nobody knows what Steve Jobs actually did in creating personal computers.
Oh no, I do.
Just stating the truth mang.
Steve Jobs is also responsible for getting Pixar on it's feet.
Fuck all of you haters.
Quote from: Riddler21 on October 05, 2011, 08:59:28 PM
Steve Jobs is also responsible for getting Pixar on it's feet.
Fuck all of you haters.
He did a lot of good. He did a lot of bad.
So did Bill Gates.
I don't see the problem here.
Quote from: Riddler21 on October 05, 2011, 08:59:28 PM
Steve Jobs is also responsible for getting Pixar on it's feet.
Fuck all of you haters.
hate hate hate hate hate
Quote from: Zero on October 05, 2011, 09:13:06 PM
that's what was playing in my head as i was typing it
nailed it
Quote from: Tupin on October 05, 2011, 08:55:44 PM
Then again, Apple has always been like this. It's like they never got the memo in the early 2000s that computer parts were getting cheaper. They do tend to take advantage of people who want an easy system, but hey, it works. It's worked for over thirty years.
gogo 700% profit-to-part-cost margin. No, seriously. I mean it.
Quote from: Tupin on October 05, 2011, 08:55:44 PM
Steve Wozniak did quite a bit for Apple as well, if there were no Apple I and Apple II, there wouldn't have been a Macintosh.
Woz was the engineer and the one who did all of the intellectual heavylifting, and he's also an infinitely more pleasant and modest man than Jobs was (he fully admits that he loves Android as much as iOS, refused to take on a title at Apple above Lead Engineer, etc.). Jobs was a salesperson with vision. Jobs was a
good salesperson with vision. In the end, that's all he was. The iCultists will mourn his death, yet life (and Apple) will continue without him.
My sympathies to his family, but having never known him personally, I cannot mourn for him. Any Apple fan that
does actually grieve is either a poser or has some serious adulation issues.
The Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh cost $7,499 in 1998. A Mac with the same specs as a Twentieth Anniversary Mac cost $2300. If Steve Jobs had helped sell it, it would have sold millions.