sergey brin: https://plus.google.com/109813896768294978296/posts/dwmWyNSoXTh
― markers, Thursday, 6 October 2011 01:56 (twelve years ago) link
walt mossberg: http://allthingsd.com/20111005/the-steve-jobs-i-knew/
― markers, Thursday, 6 October 2011 01:57 (twelve years ago) link
that photo is awesome
― lukas, Thursday, 6 October 2011 01:59 (twelve years ago) link
Apple IIc manual
― per metal injection (Eazy), Thursday, 6 October 2011 02:00 (twelve years ago) link
read mossberg's piece btw
― markers, Thursday, 6 October 2011 02:00 (twelve years ago) link
i am doing so atm and it has some good stuff in there
Jobs is a perfect example of a guy whose products I use every day but about whose life and accomplishments I know nothing. I wouldn't even have known his name until a couple of years ago.
Which means I need to read a few good obits.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 6 October 2011 02:01 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMU0tzLwhbE
― The sham nation of Israel should be destroyed. (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 6 October 2011 01:25
lmao
― lol-qaeda (am0n), Thursday, 6 October 2011 02:01 (twelve years ago) link
To my knowledge, the only tech conference Steve Jobs regularly appeared at, the only event he didn’t somehow control, was our All Things Digital conferences, where he appeared repeatedly for unrehearsed, onstage interviews. We had one rule that really bothered him: we never allowed slides, which were his main presentation tool.One year, about an hour before his appearance, I was informed that he was backstage preparing dozens of slides, even though I had reminded him a week earlier of the no-slides policy. I asked two of his top aides to tell him he couldn’t use the slides, but they each said they couldn’t do it, that I had to. So I went backstage and told him the slides were out. Famously prickly, he could have stormed out, refused to go on. And he did try to argue with me. But, when I insisted, he just said “OK.” And he went on stage without them, and was, as usual, the audience’s favorite speaker.
One year, about an hour before his appearance, I was informed that he was backstage preparing dozens of slides, even though I had reminded him a week earlier of the no-slides policy. I asked two of his top aides to tell him he couldn’t use the slides, but they each said they couldn’t do it, that I had to. So I went backstage and told him the slides were out. Famously prickly, he could have stormed out, refused to go on. And he did try to argue with me. But, when I insisted, he just said “OK.” And he went on stage without them, and was, as usual, the audience’s favorite speaker.
― markers, Thursday, 6 October 2011 02:02 (twelve years ago) link
For our fifth D Conference, both Steve and his longtime rival, the brilliant Bill Gates, surprisingly agreed to a joint appearance, their first extended onstage joint interview ever. But it almost got derailed.Earlier in the day, before Gates arrived, I did a solo onstage interview with Jobs, and asked him what it was like to be a major Windows developer, since Apple’s iTunes program was by then installed on hundreds of millions of Windows PC. He quipped: “It’s like giving a glass of ice water to someone in Hell.” When Gates later arrived and heard about the comment, he was, naturally, enraged, because my partner Kara Swisher and I had assured both men that we hoped to keep the joint session on a high plane.In a pre-interview meeting, Gates said to Jobs “so I guess I’m the representative from Hell.” Jobs merely handed Gates a cold bottle of water he was carrying. The tension was broken, and the interview was a triumph, with both men acting like statesmen. When it was over, the audience rose in a standing ovation, some of them in tears.
In a pre-interview meeting, Gates said to Jobs “so I guess I’m the representative from Hell.” Jobs merely handed Gates a cold bottle of water he was carrying. The tension was broken, and the interview was a triumph, with both men acting like statesmen. When it was over, the audience rose in a standing ovation, some of them in tears.
looool
― markers, Thursday, 6 October 2011 02:03 (twelve years ago) link
alright, yeah, read mossberg's piece y'all
― markers, Thursday, 6 October 2011 02:04 (twelve years ago) link
this is how i learned
http://i.imgur.com/KiVvm.png
― banana mogul (goole), Thursday, 6 October 2011 02:06 (twelve years ago) link
Ha! One of my friends got her news from Weezy too.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 6 October 2011 02:07 (twelve years ago) link
steve ballmer: http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2011/oct11/10-05statement.mspx
― markers, Thursday, 6 October 2011 02:07 (twelve years ago) link
WOW, that IIc manual!!
― Je55e, Thursday, 6 October 2011 02:09 (twelve years ago) link
So his mausoleum will be bang in the middle of his new spaceship, right?
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Thursday, 6 October 2011 02:10 (twelve years ago) link
SalmanRushdie Salman Rushdie I have been in love with the world Steve Jobs made ever since my first Apple Mac. He was one of the great architects of the real. RIP.7 minutes ago
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 6 October 2011 02:10 (twelve years ago) link
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/47/136114411_539b143e74_z.jpg
The fact that this ever needed to be illustrated.
― Je55e, Thursday, 6 October 2011 02:10 (twelve years ago) link
RIP
― Chris S, Thursday, 6 October 2011 02:11 (twelve years ago) link
assuming it eventually comes out, i'm interested in knowing how he spent his last few months, like whether or not he was trying out experimental treatments & what not
― yung huma (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 6 October 2011 02:12 (twelve years ago) link
his official bio, which he was interviewed something like 40 times for, is out next month, so some of that might be in there
― markers, Thursday, 6 October 2011 02:13 (twelve years ago) link
"official" isn't the right word . . . what will become the canonical bio is out next month
― markers, Thursday, 6 October 2011 02:14 (twelve years ago) link
of the real.
read this as 'on the real' initially
― the men who stare at gotye (electricsound), Thursday, 6 October 2011 02:15 (twelve years ago) link
so I guess now we know for sure why the biography was brought forward nine months
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Thursday, 6 October 2011 02:15 (twelve years ago) link
nobody posted death notices on facebook when henry ford died
― remy bean, Thursday, 6 October 2011 02:15 (twelve years ago) link
TimDraperTim Draper With the possible exception of George Washington, Dung Chow Ping and Columbus, we lost the greatest man that lived on the planet today.5 minutes ago
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 6 October 2011 02:19 (twelve years ago) link
huge lol @ dung chow ping
― (╯°□°)╯︵ mode squad) (dayo), Thursday, 6 October 2011 02:20 (twelve years ago) link
woooow
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Thursday, 6 October 2011 02:21 (twelve years ago) link
i wonder what mow say tong would think of that
lol wut
― banana mogul (goole), Thursday, 6 October 2011 02:22 (twelve years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/Tim_Draper.jpg
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 6 October 2011 02:25 (twelve years ago) link
ABigBagOfKeys Ultimate Fear Spider what is brostep. steve jobs could have told me… sigh1 minute ago
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 6 October 2011 02:26 (twelve years ago) link
Not only am I old enough to recall a time when the personal computer did not exist, I am about a year older than Steve Jobs was. The Apple II was a major inflection point in 20th century life. I saw it happen. It was huge.
― Aimless, Thursday, 6 October 2011 02:27 (twelve years ago) link
I hope Tim Draper is an NBA player
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 6 October 2011 02:28 (twelve years ago) link
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4056/4517610446_7779718cf5_o.jpg
― omar little, Thursday, 6 October 2011 02:30 (twelve years ago) link
rip
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2010/01/jobs15.jpg
― larvae o'dooley, Thursday, 6 October 2011 02:30 (twelve years ago) link
Hey I just realised Jobso's realisation of capacitive touchscreens on handheld devices is the actual reason I am learning Chinese now.
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Thursday, 6 October 2011 02:32 (twelve years ago) link
For most first-world people I don't think there's any getting away with the "Jobso didn't change my life in some way" line.
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Thursday, 6 October 2011 02:33 (twelve years ago) link
the top 30 stories on my facebook are all about steve jobs.
i am sorry, i'm gonna change my mind and join amateurist here. this is friggin' absurd.
― remy bean, Thursday, 6 October 2011 02:34 (twelve years ago) link
mine r all abt #occupywallst
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 6 October 2011 02:35 (twelve years ago) link
Compared to Sarah Palin and her media presence, memorializing Steve Jobs death at 56 is not friggin' absurd.
― Aimless, Thursday, 6 October 2011 02:36 (twelve years ago) link
well, at least there's humor value in that
― remy bean, Thursday, 6 October 2011 02:39 (twelve years ago) link
So 30 different people are dealing with the news on a personal level. That you perceive it to be overkill is your own problem.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 6 October 2011 02:41 (twelve years ago) link
RealSoonYi Soon-Yi Previn rip Steve job22 seconds ago
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 6 October 2011 02:42 (twelve years ago) link
satan's poking his bony ass with double pitchforks right now
― The sham nation of Israel should be destroyed. (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 6 October 2011 02:42 (twelve years ago) link
Exchange between two F'book friends:
"Maybe Steve Jobs' death will inspire the young Wall Street protesters the same way Judy Garland's death inspired the Stonewall drag queens."
"Maybe it will inspire people to go out and take a walk"
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 6 October 2011 02:43 (twelve years ago) link
― iatee, Thursday, 6 October 2011 02:43 (twelve years ago) link
oh soon-yi no
― banana mogul (goole), Thursday, 6 October 2011 02:44 (twelve years ago) link
SE>LCII>Duo>Duo>Centris 660AV>PowerMac G3>Powerbook G3>Power Book G4> Couple of MacBook Pros>Mac Mini+MacBook Air+iPhone
Add a work owned Dell, Samsung and Lenovo (plus a dim and distant Acorn Electron) and you have my computing life. Dominated by products Jobs had a hand in (Centris was pretty awful but was from the wilderness years).
A truly unique man; created a business that could sustain hardware margins in a cut-throat race to the bottom. Software gave people a reason to keep buying the hardware. I've always said that the Mac was the best copy protection dongle, Steve never seemed to care if your Final Cut was hacked because Apple made money on the hardware. Later on Apple seemed to work out a way of making money everywhere from a slavish devotion to network effects and not being first or most advanced but by providing "it just works".
A truly great man.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 6 October 2011 02:44 (twelve years ago) link
Right, thanks.
― remy bean, Thursday, 6 October 2011 02:46 (twelve years ago) link