Steve Jobs Dies
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Oct 6, 2011 20:34 JST
- Tags: Apple, Business, iPhone, Music, Obituaries, PC Hardware, Technology, USA
Apple tycoon Steve Jobs has passed away after a long battle with pancreatic cancer, aged 56.
The cancer which afflicted Jobs had a particularly low survival rate, and pictures of him taken some months ago left no real doubt as to the terminal nature of his condition:
He also took medical leave from his position as CEO in January as a result of the illness, finally resigning in September.
None other than Nobel Peace Prize winner President Obama paid his respects:
Michelle and I are saddened to learn of the passing of Steve Jobs. Steve was among the greatest of American innovators – brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it.
By building one of the planet’s most successful companies from his garage, he exemplified the spirit of American ingenuity. By making computers personal and putting the internet in our pockets, he made the information revolution not only accessible, but intuitive and fun. And by turning his talents to storytelling, he has brought joy to millions of children and grownups alike.
Steve was fond of saying that he lived every day like it was his last. Because he did, he transformed our lives, redefined entire industries, and achieved one of the rarest feats in human history: he changed the way each of us sees the world.
The world has lost a visionary. And there may be no greater tribute to Steve’s success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented. Michelle and I send our thoughts and prayers to Steve’s wife Laurene, his family, and all those who loved him.
Various top technology company CEOs were quick to offer tribute – most interestingly, in light of their global legal feuding, the CEO of Samsung, who had this to say: “His innovative spirit and remarkable accomplishments will forever be remembered by people around the world.”
Bill Gates, familiar with the innovative nature of Apple products for some time now, also praised his “profound impact.”
Online, the awe with which Apple products are regarded in Japan ensured even 2ch offered a sympathetic obituary, although one rather less gushing with praise than those offered by Apple fans:
“Uwaaaaaaaaaaaaah ･ﾟ･(ﾉД`)･ﾟ･”
“Apple’s done for!”
“Surely it’s just another false report!?”
“No, it’s on CNN – he’s dead.”
“Didn’t he die before?”
“Apple is doomed without him – nobody can match his charismatic leadership.”
“How many billion dollars is this going to knock off their market cap then?”
“Their balance will probably go now, their products will become more American.”
“To think he’d die so soon…”
“I hate Apple but R.I.P. Steve Jobs, he was a genius.”
“The passing of a great man.”
“I’m going to cry!”
“The age of Apple is over.”
“It’s rather splendid how he resigned properly before passing on, rather than just hanging on in the post.”
“I’m a Windows user so I owe him a great deal – may you find peace in the next world.”
“Thank you, Jobs. Rest easy.”
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RIP god of apple.
Yeah His next invention is I-tomb.
And the next revolution I-Grave.
Wasn't it Ireaper or something??
but we already know why he invent iCloud
we all know he has already has a patent for iDied :D
Now, Apple = iDontKnowWatToDo
the guy maybe the biggest jerk in history, but I still have some respect of what he have done to us (or at least what apple has done to me)
You guys might be the most insensitive assholes ever by bringing up stupid fucking jokes.
This guy (together with other big names) pretty much laid the fundation of electronic communication, and you make his death a JOKE?
You disgust me.
If by "laid the foundation" you mean put inside a streamlined white plastic case then you are correct.
Ding Dong the Witch is dead, the Wicked Witch is Dead
He is still a visionary though. He will be missed.
@ Anon 01:12:
Steve J. *used* to have a sense of humor, though I don't know about that in recent years.
I know I would -- if I could hear them -- appreciate funny puns made about me when I die.
Hey I got a secret
Apple doesn't have any jobs on offer now.
01:12 Anonymous
Someone here doesn't know dark humor.
I am sure Steve would appreciate it better than you. He had a sense of humor at least.
Well your "i" jokes aren't funny even if he wasn't dead :P
"This guy (together with other big names) pretty much laid the fundation of electronic communication"
i didn't know Jobs created the email, chatrooms, website scripting, social networking sites like facebook or twitter, etc.
oh right, you did mention "together with other big names".
glad all the others got a little offhand recognition...
the foundation of electronic communication at this point is built on the work of so many people that to even suggest one man did anything more than a small part just goes to show how little you know.
but you wonderfully illustrated my main "Apple Problem"
i never hated Apple.
and i never hated Steve Jobs.
he was a great inventor and business man whose company, to be honest, rarely was actually at the forefront of developing anything new (no, Apple DID NOT develop even a majority of the technology they supposedly pioneered), but Jobs had the acumen to know what new technology could be actually sold to the average consumer. often long before his contemporaries figured out the same.
what i hate are Apple hipsters who pretty much by definition are "techies" that don't know anything about the tech world.
hell that's what Apple make their money marketing to = the people who want technology but don't want to know anything about technology.
yet despite that, the Apple hipsters insist on making comments as if they actually know things, but it mostly consists of blindly believing Apple and Steve Jobs created the technology world.
Job never created any shit, its his friend Wozniak that created and designed breakout.
Job never had IT technical background, let alone designing electro circuit, he couldn't write program with BASIC.
His most genius part is brainwashing people into believing that he is the god of IT in this Newage and makes them think buying overpriced apple product would makes them cooler, smarter.
Sorta Cult Master.
And these people who targeted by people is believing that they know more technology than someone that have informatics degree.
Hilarious, now you call that a good brainwash aren't you??
Thing is Jobs did for $$$ and he never give a fuck about you nor development in IT.
@ 05:55 Anon: My thoughts exactly! He took technology and turned it into fashion accessory. For that I will hate him, but gg on the base design of the iPod. The circle and central button was pretty good.
And onto the topic of Mac vs PC, At least my OS creator is,'t dead. How's them apples techfags?
Y'know, it's sad he died and all, but people should stop treating him like a god or genius.
He was a good businessman, and that was about it. He took over a faltering company he helped build and gained control over the intellectual properties they licensed to other companies... good business sense. However, he gets all the credit for designing the "iDevices" even though they were designed by other people within the company, he didn't design them.
He outsourced thousands and thousands of jobs to China. The company made billions of dollars by paying underpaying workers to build a device that they charge $200 or more for. He was a good businessman and knew how to please a crowd in press conferences.
He wasn't a saint, he wasn't a genius, he wasn't a god. He had an illegitimate child, refused to acknowledge that it was his kid, then told the courts he was unable to have children because he was sterile. He then got married to a different woman and had 3 kids before he admitted the illegitimate child was his. He died an early death, and karma got him in the end, if you ask me.
Well they basically have that already.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiIPhYKgNsI
Headstones with RFID chips in them that connect with cellphones, computers, ect.
Now I'm not an Apple guy but still; it sucks that Steve Jobs died. I mean anytime a visionary dies it's a great loss for the whole world.
R.I.P Steve Jobs.
I don't know if I'm supposed to laugh at this, but I will anyway.
They reinvented the phone. :V
Well, I'm not much of an Apple fan. The only thing I ever used from them was iTunes. And I liked it.
I suppose, another great loss happened.
Watch him come back to life with the iRespawn
too soon :(
I guess selling thousands of Apples a day didn't keep his doctor away. ;D
Come on now people. Why do not we show Steve some respect? The guy has done a lot of wonderful contributions for technology. Insult some evildoer like Ishihara instead. We will definitely not miss that moronic LDP dictator.
RIP Steve Jobs. Your legacy will forever live.
Jobs took existing tech, had his engineers make it stupid-friendly, and put an apple logo on it, and the masses bought it for twice the price. Because it was white and had an apple.
He was a genius at advertisement and marketing, but from a technology point of view, he did close to nothing.
Wise words R.I.P Jobs
Lots says that picture is just PHOTOSHOP MADE!
God? No, he was more of a prophet, like Muhammad.
The God of Apple is Steve Wozniak. You know, the engineer who actually built the stuff and had the real technical knowledge that Jobs jut sold.
Jobs was great at business and marketing so he'll be missed on that front but all the actual work came from others in the company like the co-founder Wozniak (no, I don't count Ronald Wayne). Jobs is exactly like Bill Gates, either buying existing technology and integrating it or hiring people who can actually do the work needed.
Well, yes, and no. Gates did do many of the things he did, however, Gates WAS an actual Engineer. He started Microsoft on he and his friends' programming and technical knowledge. Jobs was just a drugged up hippie that Woz let run his company cause he didn't care about the business side at all.
Woz sure was a circuitry wizard. But Jobs was the one who insisted on giving the ][ that elegant, professional-looking case that made it stand out in an ocean of computer kits; he always pushed for "the computer for the rest of us", one that anyone could use - a rather farfetched idea at the time.
Goodbye Apple. Good riddance.
Gimme a -1 for all I care, I don't feel a thing when he's gone and I'm not thankful for apple what they've done. I say good riddance.
go fuck yourself douche.
Grow a pair girlie.
As you wish, Insensitive Anon. You got your -1
maybe he's sociopath, did you think about that?
Apple has been an overhyped piece of shit ever since jobs came back.
The fact that the average Apple fanatic thinks their products are the greatest technological innovations in recent years, and the iPad is the greatest piece of modern gadgetry just goes to show how great Jobs was at building up that "reality distortion field".
Their products are buggy pieces of shit covered in shiny white plastic, marketed at tech hipsters who will gladly bend over to buy their latest crap every time Jobs tells them to.
Don't forget to mention overpriced and using yesterday's technology most of the time
Goodbye 美しい音. Good riddance.
Kind of similar as to what we say of your kind. Pay your respects to your elder. Be you an anti-mac fanboy. You, as the usual, act like nothing but ignorant and biased ways. Grow a pair and learn respect.
Nope, not gonna happen.
As an anti-mac guy, I still pay my respects. He had lost a fight with a cancer and even as he fought, he did not slow down until the very end.
The world has lost someone who was a driving force on how we view technology and how it is used. I just use products not produced by his company.
So to the anons who decide to be dicks. I hope you end up having a computer malfunction.
Rest Easy Mr. Jobs, just do note the standard dress code up in the afterlife is not a black sweater.
I'm a little dichotomic when it comes to Apple/Steve Jobs. On the one hand I have no issues with Steve Jobs or the work he did for the company, but on the other I can't praise him for making something as shoddy as iTunes either. As a media playback program it really isn't very good, and lacks many features those sorts of programs SHOULD have. Like a stop button for example.
If there were any fault in his creative genius, that would be it. His tendency to go one step too far in trying to make things simple and intuitive with the end result being TOO simple, and ultimately lacking what really would make it great. That said, I do have an iPod, which I love, and I do use iTunes with it, which I mostly hate. So yeah, I have mixed feelings about that.
Complaints aside though, his passing is a sad one, and the world will be a less better place for it. I wish him well in his next life, and hope it will be just as good if not better than this one.
There is a stop button in iTunes. Just switch to a different playlist/album/page and the pause becomes a stop.
That said the passing of Steve Jobs is indeed a sad event for which all technophiles, Apple fans or not, should be saddened by.
I hate apple as well, but Steve Jobs is a man who deserves the respect. I am disappointed that he was on Apple's side of the technological market, but because of him, mainstream technology was able to advance further than before. He is a great visionary and innovator... but still, #*$&# Apple.
@Icefox
That only reinforces the point. It shows bad design that needs to be done for it to appear when it should be there the whole time. And that's only one of many problems.
what also reinforces the point is that there is no pause button when u switch to another playlist, trolololol fail design
Internet and ipad were invented by Russians and the Soviet Union and stolen by Steve Jobs.
LMAO! Yeah it was called the I-brick!
Feeble attempt at a joke. Russia; for all it's size, is just a country struggling to come to terms with itself while feeding of oil.
They have almost none higher industry; but a good deal of medium ones. So leave them out of this please.
@ Anon 01:15
Please learn to read between the lines. Anon 00:01 was being sarcastic and I was replying in kind. It pertains to the old Soviet Union which was renowned in declaring many things (especially in the Stalin years) as being invented in the CCCP that really weren't. Stop being so thinned skin, this is Sancom after all,
@kazaza2 what "things" are you referring to?
Silly things like neck ties and light bulbs.
Regardless of if you like apple or not, they pushed the world to where it is today. Steve Jobs helped develop technology as it is today.
Steve Jobbs did shit .
No he didn't. He put things in plastic white cases, put a brand on it, and gave it a interface that the not so clever masses could understand and use. Then he advertised the living hell out of it. He was a market genius, but technology-wise nothing that he did was groundbreaking or innovative, except maybe his early work with Woz.
Agreed, He was just a 'hip' Bill Gates..
Thief, liar and all around douche
Hey Bill, remember when we were poor?
No.
Hey Bill, let's flip a coin.
What's a coin?
Steve, I went to the bank to talk about a loan.
Did you need to borrow money?
No but the bank did.
Gates actually seems like a pretty nice guy these days, and MS have started actually making quite nice products.
Meanwhile, Jobs started acting more and more like a douche, Apple played more and more underhand tricks, and behaves more and more like MS did in the 90s.
Strange how things turn around...
Soo whats so grweat about that guy he s not Bill gates , may you go in hell steve jobbs Rest in peices
and in hell, he can skullfuck your slut of a grandmother.
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Cheers, 美しい音
The world is now a better place without a bad apple.
His other company NeXT, also a producer of computers and software made a significant impact to the WAY YOU LIVE right now.
"Several developers used the NeXT platform to write pioneering programs. Tim Berners-Lee used a NeXT Computer in 1991 to create the first web browser and web server."
"In the early 1990s John Carmack used a NeXTcube to build two of his pioneering games, Wolfenstein 3D and Doom. Other commercial programs were released for NeXT computers, including the Lotus Improv spreadsheet program and Mathematica. The systems also came with a number of smaller built-in applications such as the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, Oxford Quotations, the complete works of William Shakespeare, and the Digital Librarian search engine to access them."
I am not an Apple fan myself but when I knew this then I acknowledged the way he is treated a genius.
Also, that man is responsible for Bug's Life, TOY STORY and many more from Pixar that gave your childhood any meaning because he also owns that company.