Steve Jobs RIP 1955-2011

AP confirms with Apple: http://twitter.com/AP/statuses/121730495347294208

wow. rip.

CUPERTINO, Calif., Oct 05, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today.

Steve's brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The world is immeasurably better because of Steve.

His greatest love was for his wife, Laurene, and his family. Our hearts go out to them and to all who were touched by his extraordinary gifts.

Well damn.

And of course I learn about it via an iPhone.

Whoa. RIP.

damn. how sad. rip.

FUCK

r.i.p. steve :(

a tribute here too: http://www.apple.com/stevejobs/

FUCK FUCK FUCK

heaven needed a blue backdrop and an angel in a black turtleneck standing before it

Wow. RIP.

this was hardly unforseen but it seems really momentous to me in a way that few celeb deaths really do, RIP

(no offense bert jansch)

hmmm

local ABC affiliate broke into "Jeopardy" for a special report -- the anchor did a whole like 30 second intro about "the passing of a man who has changed the way we all live our lives" before saying who actually died so it was weirdly anticlimactic like oh really ok. i mean i know he's pretty famous but kinda surprises me how much they built it up.

Jjj otm. Shouldn't feel as sad as it does. RIP.

*bites tongue*

i mean RIP obviously, ilu and everything your company makes mr. jobs (xpost)

RIP. An amazing aesthetic and business life.

CBS just cut in for special report. Woah at that first Mac ad with the sledgehammer through the screen.

takin' them New Balance shoes to Buddhist iHeaven

RIP Big Guy.

See, I don't get the sad thing (I rarely do with celebrity deaths), but I totally get the momentous thing.

(a few xposts)

willy wonka :(

emil.y otm

See, I don't get the sad thing (I rarely do with celebrity deaths), but I totally get the momentous thing.

I agree with this btw. xp

RIP

also, might be symbolic

Sad as hell (and way too early, obviously) but this dude racked up far more than a lifetime's worth of world-changing achievements. Hopefully the overwhelming tragedy of all this is balanced by just how much he got done.

Wow. A good deal of my friends here have worked under him in some capacity, so this is so weird. RIP

this was hardly unforseen but it seems really momentous to me in a way that few celeb deaths really do, RIP

otm

the world in which I live & the world in which I work bear evidence of his importance - literally every day I'm doing stuff I'd be doing differently had he not lived. also, cancer is a fucking brutal horrible thing and this guy should have lived a lot longer so that's salt in the wound.

Yeah prob not sad, but R6 have been banging the John Peel drum for a while and this was just thing to set me off. I want to go and watch Toy Story now tbh.

rip

if you think about it, his final genius act on earth was taking palin out of the news cycle

speechless

sent from my iPad ):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

<3 <3 <3

might be the beginning of the end for Apple, too.

fuck cancer you guys

RIP

i'm planning on buying my first ever apple laptop soon. RIP

rip

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljhqxelrIO1qam384o1_500.jpg

Where I'm sitting I can count 6 apple devices. At least he probably had a pretty good life living off of my paycheck. RIP.

"If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

This is so so worth meditating on, always. Death really sharpens the perspective.

i dunno, like most major multinationals apple got rich by manufacturing its products in places where workers are paid shit and don't have rights. i guess we're in the realm of the contradicions of capitalism here.

i feel like the sleekness/minimalist design/logic of personal "productivity" with which jobs so astutely worked to associate apple has kind of shielded apple partisans from recognizing that apple is as implicated in the realities of global exploitation as much or more than the next corporation.

i mean jobs seems real interesting and important and stuff but people seem to be treating him like he won the nobel prize or something

might be the beginning of the end for Apple, too.

― nostormo, Wednesday, October 5, 2011 7:01 PM (7 minutes ago)

I'd like to know what orifice you're pulling this out of, but not on this thread. Maybe over here...? New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

also following your heart not always the best idea

the thing that I can't really understand is the amount of "cor, that Siracusa nailed it" adulation for this podcast. He's barely blu-tak'd it, and I say that as someone who didn't really like the Jobs bio. It's a pretty soft target, but he still misses it by a badly-paced mile.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/18/one-on-one-walter-isaacson-biographer-of-steve-jobs/

Bio was so good that I immediately bought Isaacson's Einstein bio.

Eric Alterman on Jobs' boorishness as a world citizen:

http://www.thenation.com/article/164499/agony-and-ecstasy-and-disgrace-steve-jobs

(Mike Daisey's 1-man show on Jobs intrigues me)

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57359806-37/steve-jobs-doll-canceled-after-immense-pressure/

http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/files/2012/01/jobsdoll1-600x404.jpg

When the doll was first advertised, many Apple fans were disturbed by the level of detail, such as the pores on its forehead, the wrinkles under its eyes and the veins on its hands.

http://i.imgur.com/YIDJh.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/The_ROCK.jpg/200px-The_ROCK.jpg

What's morally repugnant in one country is accepted business practices in another, and companies take advantage of that."
NICHOLAS ASHFORD, a former chairman of the National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health, on the often harsh and dangerous conditions that laborers endure in Chinese factories where iPhones, iPads and other high-tech devices are assembled.

NY Times

Did they freeze his head like Waly Disney?

Er, Walt

where's waly 's head

NICHOLAS ASHFORD, a former chairman of the National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health

You can make his name from the letters in his committee

Thanks, jaymc.

Since his name was brought up in this thread. Could appear on lots of other threads, too.

'This American Life' Retracts Show on Foxconn Working Conditions over Fabricated Claims

Back in January, popular radio show This American Life aired an episode dedicated to working conditions at Foxconn's factories in China, drawing heavily from Mike Daisey's theater monologue entitled "The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs". In the monologue, which has been a notable part of the push to address working conditions at Apple's suppliers, Daisey relates tales from his visit to China where he met with Foxconn workers.

In a remarkable reversal, This American Life has now announced that it is retracting its January broadcast of Daisey's content, citing a number of fabrications discovered in a follow-up investigation on his claims.

The China correspondent for the public radio show Marketplace tracked down the interpreter that Daisey hired when he visited Shenzhen China. The interpreter disputed much of what Daisey has been saying on stage and on our show. [...]

Daisey lied to me and to This American Life producer Brian Reed during the fact checking we did on the story, before it was broadcast. That doesn't excuse the fact that we never should've put this on the air. In the end, this was our mistake.
An accompanying press release relates a number of Daisey's claims that were shown to be false, from claims of having met workers injured by use n-hexane to an anecdote in which he described meeting a man who had had his hand mangled in equipment while producing the iPad and showing the man a functional iPad for the first time.

Daisey reportedly lied to This American Life's staff when asked for contact information for the interpreter he used during his travels, but once the interpreter was found through other means his story began to come apart.

For his part, Daisey acknowledges that some of the information he presented was not entirely truthful, arguing that his monologue was created for theater. Consequently, he agrees that it should not have been presented as journalism, although he stands behind the intent of his work.

I stand by my work. My show is a theatrical piece whose goal is to create a human connection between our gorgeous devices and the brutal circumstances from which they emerge. It uses a combination of fact, memoir, and dramatic license to tell its story, and I believe it does so with integrity. Certainly, the comprehensive investigations undertaken by The New York Times and a number of labor rights groups to document conditions in electronics manufacturing would seem to bear this out.

What I do is not journalism. The tools of the theater are not the same as the tools of journalism. For this reason, I regret that I allowed THIS AMERICAN LIFE to air an excerpt from my monologue. THIS AMERICAN LIFE is essentially a journalistic ­- not a theatrical ­- enterprise, and as such it operates under a different set of rules and expectations. But this is my only regret. I am proud that my work seems to have sparked a growing storm of attention and concern over the often appalling conditions under which many of the high-tech products we love so much are assembled in China.

This American Life is devoting the entirety of this week's episode to discussion of the fabrications present in the original report.

Dear Friends,

As you may have read by now, the radio program This American Life—which aired a segment of Mike Daisey’s theatre monologue The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs—has retracted the story due to what it calls fabrications in Mike’s tale. We wanted to let you know that The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs will run at Woolly Mammoth as planned from July 17-August 5, 2012.

there's a big talk about this on the this american life c/d thread

http://l.yimg.com/cv/ae/us/audience/120319/300x250lkledw9xw.jpg

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http://static8.businessinsider.com/image/4f747d98ecad045f51000029/steve-jobs.jpg

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-03-29/apple-s-war-on-android

http://i.imgur.com/12NLh.jpg

chance i'll actually end up watching the movie too

revenge of the nerds

actually, young jobs REALLY looks like a young howe gelb

http://i.imgur.com/OnLAr.jpg

The only thing I see now is that disgusting foot.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504803_162-57584072-10391709/bill-gates-on-steve-jobs-we-grew-up-together/

Trailer looks bad

http://youtu.be/SH1jKZwcS9Y

yeah i'm guessing the sorkin one is going to be "better"

What I'm getting from that trailer is that Steve Jobs was a big fan of pussy.

THE ORIGINAL REBEL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR6yMl2FZSQ

1:59 y'all

PLUS: MACKLEMORE

lol @ Josh Gad as Wozniak

Also I'm experiencing cognitive dissonance with "Can't Hold Us" in the trailer for a Steve Jobs biopic, since my primary association with that song is the Windows commercials that it scores.

they're reclaiming macklemore!

they should just redo this and leave it at that: http://www.tubechop.com/watch/1371446

Hah "It only takes one person to start a revolution".

Yeah Steve Jobs should've ditched that loser Wozniak guy, amiright?

i think so

I'd watch the Rifftrax version of it with suitable chemical augmentation.

that christian bale meltdown on the set of terminator convinced me he's the one who should have had this role.

are you implying you are not fully satisfied with their choice of ashton kutcher??

Sorkin/Fincher, bevare

http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/david-fincher-in-early-talks-to-re-team-with-aaron-sorkin-for-steve-jobs-biopic

wow this movie has the potential to be even more boring and less cinematic than The Social Network!!

how was The Social Network not cinematic? did you want car chases?

yes. yes i did.

Lol

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/24/ex-iphone/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

Mr. Jobs was notorious for throwing his weight around however he could. One person on the iPhone design team was also named Steve, which caused some confusion in meetings. Mr. Jobs sought to change this.

“At some point Steve Jobs got really frustrated with this and said ‘Guess what, you’re Margaret from now on,’” Mr. Tolmasky said. From there on, members of the team would always address the designer Steve as Margaret.

haven't gotten around to reading that yet, but good story

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/03/business/steve-jobs-a-genius-at-pushing-boundaries-too.html?hp&_r=0