HoneyBadger
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The Associated Press: Apple says Steve Jobs has died.
BREAKING NEWS: Steve Jobs has died.
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97forever
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What??
That's pretty shocking and certainly unexpected.
http://www.boston.com/Boston/busine...ounder-dead/yW26KhPSReaquwjvRwFWiO/index.html
97forever
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RIP Steve Jobs.
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SlowNeasy
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RIP Steve
HoneyBadger
I love short track racing (Taylor's Version)
Okay, yes, Steve Jobs did a lot of great stuff for the technology industry, but he was not a Saint.
SpeedPagan
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I'd have to agree, but you have to admit, he was great at selling overpriced, underpowered machines to people. He knew how to market the Apple brand to people.
HoneyBadger
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#iSad is trending on Twitter. 
Even Steve Jobs would find that funny.
Even Steve Jobs would find that funny.
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KingGlamis
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iThink if I was him I would have spent 99% of my money on cancer research.
iRIP Steve Jobs.
iRIP Steve Jobs.
dpkimmel2001
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RIP Steve. Creator of things that we didn't even know we need.
Here's to the crazy one 
Like him or hate him, he changed the world and touched a lot of lives with the devices he envisioned and helped to shape. A lot of people, myself included, have him and Apple to thank for their job and livelihood. Some even have them to thank for their husbands and wives, kids, and lives.
Having reached several thousand people in the communities I've lead over the years, I know the great feeling I get when I know I've helped bring joy into someone's life or bring their future family to them is one of the greatest things I've ever known. I can only hope to affect a fraction as much change and reach as many people as he did when I finally bite the big one.
Like him or hate him, he changed the world and touched a lot of lives with the devices he envisioned and helped to shape. A lot of people, myself included, have him and Apple to thank for their job and livelihood. Some even have them to thank for their husbands and wives, kids, and lives.
Having reached several thousand people in the communities I've lead over the years, I know the great feeling I get when I know I've helped bring joy into someone's life or bring their future family to them is one of the greatest things I've ever known. I can only hope to affect a fraction as much change and reach as many people as he did when I finally bite the big one.
Bucky Badger
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It's all a matter of perspective. You say he sold an overpriced underpowered machine. I say he saw what could be a better computing experience and focused more on finding better uses for the technology available, that could make it more accessible. I grew up building PCs, always drooling over specs & speed, and wondered why Apple computers were more expensive for the same specs. But it wasn't til 2007 when the iPhone redefined what a computer could do, or should do, for people that I really started to understand what he was about.
It's not about "look at this technology". It's "look at what you can do with this technology and what it can do for your life"...have you ever seen a 412mhz computer do smooth scrolling the right way, 3D games and zooming and panning around large photos with ease, and present an intuitive and snappy user interface for you to communicate with people and get the sum of the world's information? That's what the iPhone brought to my pocket and my life was waaaaaay different since. I would say better.
Whether you subscribe to their philosophies or not, their products shaped a lot of what we use today, from PCs to Androids to internets to music. Don't downplay it as a shallow grab for money or just a marketing scheme, because if that's all it was, there wouldn't be presidents and entrepreneurs and other influential persons lamenting his death. Let's leave the hate out of the thread and respect the man for what good he brought the world.
It's not about "look at this technology". It's "look at what you can do with this technology and what it can do for your life"...have you ever seen a 412mhz computer do smooth scrolling the right way, 3D games and zooming and panning around large photos with ease, and present an intuitive and snappy user interface for you to communicate with people and get the sum of the world's information? That's what the iPhone brought to my pocket and my life was waaaaaay different since. I would say better.
Whether you subscribe to their philosophies or not, their products shaped a lot of what we use today, from PCs to Androids to internets to music. Don't downplay it as a shallow grab for money or just a marketing scheme, because if that's all it was, there wouldn't be presidents and entrepreneurs and other influential persons lamenting his death. Let's leave the hate out of the thread and respect the man for what good he brought the world.
Well said, fury. My first experience with a computer was an Apple at school. I was fearful, but it made things so simple, even I could understand it.
Now, I have withdrawal when my PC is in the shop for a day or two.
Now, I have withdrawal when my PC is in the shop for a day or two.
buckaroo
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I have always wondered why there was such dislike about PCs and Macs from various people. Some blame Gates for the divide, but I guess it's all really like who you like in racing or football or baseball etc. No doubt we have moved forward in the last 30 years or so quickly and much of it can be attributed to Jobs. I do believe that had he not been the innovator, someone else would have brought us here. Maybe not as fast though. I don't believe that what Jobs did was purely for the money. People like him don't come along very often. I just wonder where Apple will go from here.
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SlowNeasy
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my first and strongest impression of a mac was wasting 10 minutes figuring out how to eject a floppy disk. all right, where's the damn eject button! that wasn't making things simpler. <g>
I still say the iMac needs more USB ports. If they didn't want us having cords, they'd not make a USB hub required.That's Steve and his aversion to buttons, alright.
The mini's are badass though.
Like the one button mouse? That I can still not figure out how to right click with.
blue92
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Hold the option key down and just click away with your one button mouse. But these days if you want a multi button mouse Mac has them too.
You wouldn't have a GUI interface in your PC if Gates hadn't worked for Jobs in the early 80s and stole the technology from Jobs while working on a Jobs early operating system code. You PCs would still be using DOS if it hadn't been for Steve Jobs.
R.I.P. Steve you changed my life Sir.
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I'm a PC guy, always has been and always will be. IMHO, Apple is more about the brand than the actual product. This analogy works perfectly for my way of thinking. My mom has a Jaguar car. It's a representation of class and style. Also, a piece of plastic that connects the motor to the air filter cost $200. Now the same piece of plastic that runs from the Air Filter to the turbo in my PT Cruiser cost me $100, half that price.
It's the same piece of plastic made in China with molding machines, so why did one cost more than the other? Because one had "Jaguar" on it.
That's why I never got into this "Apple" craze. My MP3 player was made by Sony, my computer was made by iBUYPOWER (gaming machine). My MP3 player can do the same things that an iPod can, but instead of costing $249 (iPod classic), it only cost $80. The newest iMac is $1,199.00. My iBUYPOWER computer has all the same (if not better) specs, but it only cost me $500 at Newegg.com.
Like I said, Jobs was really good at selling overpriced, underpowered products to people, he knew how to sell the Apple brand.
It's the same piece of plastic made in China with molding machines, so why did one cost more than the other? Because one had "Jaguar" on it.
That's why I never got into this "Apple" craze. My MP3 player was made by Sony, my computer was made by iBUYPOWER (gaming machine). My MP3 player can do the same things that an iPod can, but instead of costing $249 (iPod classic), it only cost $80. The newest iMac is $1,199.00. My iBUYPOWER computer has all the same (if not better) specs, but it only cost me $500 at Newegg.com.
Like I said, Jobs was really good at selling overpriced, underpowered products to people, he knew how to sell the Apple brand.
blue92
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I'm a proud Mac user for going on 15 years, bought my 1st Mac in 1996 while I was in graphic art school so I could do my assignments at home instead of in the computer labs at school. I own 3 of them 2 being Mac minis. I'm not into gaming so I don't have the computer needs you do.
I enjoy my Macs because I can count on 1 hand the times I've had a computer crash while I'm working on anything, and (knock on wood) I've never had a computer virus. I don't run any anti-virus software on my computers because I don't have to, it's built into my machines, also I don't have to defrag my Macs ever because it's built into my OS everytime I turn one on it automatically does that for me. That's just me.
But you should ask anyone in the music industry why they use so many Macs over PCs, or the folks that work for Pixar or Dreamworks.
VaDirt
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Overpriced, maybe, but underpowered they are not. There's a reason you see Macs in the movie industry, they way more capable of heavy graphics processing that PCs are.