it's sad they did a lot of coke
― buzza, Thursday, 25 August 2011 01:27 (twelve years ago) link
marco arment: http://www.marco.org/2011/08/24/steve-jobs-resigns-as-apple-ceo
― markers, Thursday, 25 August 2011 01:30 (twelve years ago) link
Will AAPL shit the bed tomorrow morning?
afterhours trading is a huge drop which is hilarious because the company'll be fine - buy tomorrow if you have an IRA, imo
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 25 August 2011 01:32 (twelve years ago) link
Tim CookThe Carter 4#SteveJobs
― markers, Thursday, 25 August 2011 01:35 (twelve years ago) link
the this is my next guys have been live for a while; i just tuned in: http://thisismynext.com/2011/08/24/podcast-live-830pm-130am-bst-1230am-gmt/
― markers, Thursday, 25 August 2011 01:38 (twelve years ago) link
wait he has had pancreatic cancer for ~seven years~???????
that is nuts
― remembrance of schwings past (gbx), Thursday, 25 August 2011 04:18 (twelve years ago) link
wait n/m he has a neuroendocrine tumor
― remembrance of schwings past (gbx), Thursday, 25 August 2011 04:21 (twelve years ago) link
He had a liver transplant a few years back.
Honestly, guys, as a kid I used Apple II computers before we ever had a PC at home. We got one, earlier than a lot of kids of my time when I was in 4th grade. Although I lobbied for an Apple one when we were upgrading a couple years later, it didn't happen. I loved macs although recognized the stagnation of the 90s, got obsessed with NeXT in the late 90s (Jobs's baby of/before the time) and wanted a used defunct one as an object of love for a couple years. I was on the edge of my seat when I realized there was an Apple/NeXT merger system and ended up buying a Mac laptop with my first big college summer job money. I've swapped out Apple laptops every 2 or 3 years since, and had a second generation iPod and a bunch since then.
I've met or heard a few programmers or businessmen of that era and few really believed in what they were doing or had the longevity (no disrespect meant) of Steve Jobs. I'm sure people will curse him for misspending his wealth, or crashing the computer market, or monopolies or whatever else, but the guy has had such a strong singular influence that I don't think I'll ever fault him in my lifetime.
I hope this is a semi-retirement and trial for a successor, but if it's the end of his work as a company leader and visionary -- and yeah, that is a bullshit word that I wouldn't normally spit out -- then I hope that things keep rolling on.
― unwarranted display names of ilx (mh), Thursday, 25 August 2011 04:32 (twelve years ago) link
you don't have to be a total fanboy to understand that dude took a company that many of us figured was dead in the post-windows world and turned it into the industry leader in mobile computing, smartphones, digital media, os design, etc
― mr peabody (moonship journey to baja), Thursday, 25 August 2011 04:37 (twelve years ago) link
For sure.
― *steens furiHOOSly* (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 25 August 2011 04:47 (twelve years ago) link
boom: http://www.apple.com/pr/bios/
― markers, Thursday, 25 August 2011 05:13 (twelve years ago) link
uh, ron johnson left iirc?
― markers, Thursday, 25 August 2011 05:14 (twelve years ago) link
read that as "ron swanson"
― ceci n'est pas une witty dn (Schlafsack), Thursday, 25 August 2011 05:24 (twelve years ago) link
I just noticed, there's 16 men and one woman on that page.
― ceci n'est pas une witty dn (Schlafsack), Thursday, 25 August 2011 05:44 (twelve years ago) link
those "exective profiles" photos are so fucked up.
― jed_, Thursday, 25 August 2011 05:56 (twelve years ago) link
ikr, two of them actually frighten me
― ceci n'est pas une witty dn (Schlafsack), Thursday, 25 August 2011 05:59 (twelve years ago) link
WTF Al Gore?
― akm, Thursday, 25 August 2011 06:55 (twelve years ago) link
waht is markers on twitter. i need more rts
Jobs quotes: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/08/24/steve-jobss-best-quotes/
― stet, Thursday, 25 August 2011 07:04 (twelve years ago) link
hahaha i was rt'ing nytimes, df, etc.
― markers, Thursday, 25 August 2011 07:05 (twelve years ago) link
― akm, Thursday, August 25, 2011 2:55 AM
apple thought it would be a good idea to have the guy who invented the internet on the board to help them out w/ icloud
― markers, Thursday, 25 August 2011 07:06 (twelve years ago) link
Stay classy, Hot Air:
For five years they made me use a mac. I hated every day of it.
That said, God bring health to his body.
CurtZHP on August 24, 2011 at 8:35 PM
― Pizzataco Five (admrl), Thursday, 25 August 2011 07:13 (twelve years ago) link
Does this mean we might FINALLY get Flash compatibility?PappyD61 on August 24, 2011 at 8:02 PMLOL. No.joejm65 on August 24, 2011 at 8:03 PM
PappyD61 on August 24, 2011 at 8:02 PMLOL. No.
joejm65 on August 24, 2011 at 8:03 PM
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 25 August 2011 07:19 (twelve years ago) link
i only read playboy for the steve jobs quotes.
― koogs, Thursday, 25 August 2011 10:01 (twelve years ago) link
<3<3<3 http://allenpaltrow.tumblr.com/post/9375814057/my-experience-with-jobs-and-apple
― markers, Thursday, 25 August 2011 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
I thought I read somewhere that adobe was kind of silently killing flash off with this Edge thing
― akm, Thursday, 25 August 2011 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
it's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right, i hope it had the time of its life . . .
― markers, Thursday, 25 August 2011 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-ceo-tim-cook-im-thinking-printers,21207/
― markers, Thursday, 25 August 2011 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
lolling
― carne asada...in my vagina? (silby), Thursday, 25 August 2011 17:56 (twelve years ago) link
the whole almost-obituary approach ppl are taking is a bit maudlin, but some great links are coming out of it. Like this one showing the Apple stuff his name's on the patents for. I'd be chuffed to be on one of these, let alone 300-odd. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/08/24/technology/steve-jobs-patents.html
― stet, Thursday, 25 August 2011 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
don't diss the apple laserwriter.
― koogs, Thursday, 25 August 2011 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
stet, thanks for that patent link! hadn't seen that linked to anywhere yet
― markers, Thursday, 25 August 2011 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
god bless the goddamn onion
― diamonddave85, Thursday, 25 August 2011 18:34 (twelve years ago) link
linking to this again -- totally worth reading: http://allenpaltrow.tumblr.com/post/9375814057/my-experience-with-jobs-and-apple
― markers, Thursday, 25 August 2011 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
it's fucking great :D
My neighbor Brooke mentioned that Steve Jobs, busy as he is, always reads email sent to his public address. I think I was around 12, and I sent a very enthusiastic and grammatically incorrect message including a picture of my shaved head.Apparently he forwarded it to the head of Public Relations, Katie, and I got invited to the opening of the 5th Avenue Cube. I can never thank them enough. This was probably the high point of my childhood.
Apparently he forwarded it to the head of Public Relations, Katie, and I got invited to the opening of the 5th Avenue Cube. I can never thank them enough. This was probably the high point of my childhood.
― markers, Thursday, 25 August 2011 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
damn the pictures are making me tear up
glad to see the bar is still high at princeton
― mr peabody (moonship journey to baja), Thursday, 25 August 2011 18:51 (twelve years ago) link
That kid whose life revolved around Apple... wow.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 25 August 2011 18:52 (twelve years ago) link
markers i would dig it if you would say somethin more abt what this stuff means/t to you, cause not having had any kind of personal identification with apple i'm just kinda agog at it all.
― *steens furiHOOSly* (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 25 August 2011 18:59 (twelve years ago) link
I see what u did there HOOS
― Vaginalogue Bubblebath (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 25 August 2011 19:00 (twelve years ago) link
what'd i do
― *steens furiHOOSly* (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 25 August 2011 19:01 (twelve years ago) link
semi-called markers out for stanning because he's just kind of into it?
― unwarranted display names of ilx (mh), Thursday, 25 August 2011 19:02 (twelve years ago) link
Yet another brave attempt to lure Markers out of his lol-hole and open up about what he actually thinks or feels!
(<3 u markers)
― Vaginalogue Bubblebath (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 25 August 2011 19:02 (twelve years ago) link
having never owned an apple product beyond an iPod touch i had for about 6 months, while i recognize the impact the man had on business and of course feel for a sick man forced into retirement by illness, i gotta say the outpouring of grief on twitter is weirding me out a little bit.
― *steens furiHOOSly* (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver)
i have something to say abt this but i'm frantically reading shit & rt'ing shit so bbl
― markers, Wednesday, August 24, 2011 11:24 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
― *steens furiHOOSly* (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 25 August 2011 19:03 (twelve years ago) link
just reiterating
Ok. I remember getting Markers to open up was a "thing", on some thread. Maybe just too much time on ilx tho, do carry on
― Vaginalogue Bubblebath (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 25 August 2011 19:06 (twelve years ago) link
coddling markers is nagl dudes
― (gr8080), Thursday, 25 August 2011 19:10 (twelve years ago) link
― *steens furiHOOSly* (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, August 25, 2011 2:59 PM
i totally will, just need to think abt it first
― markers, Thursday, 25 August 2011 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
have a few beers and just rant a bit, that is what I did last night.
― unwarranted display names of ilx (mh), Thursday, 25 August 2011 19:19 (twelve years ago) link
Apple has no fyoochure now
― Splendid Curving Oasis of Ivory (Latham Green), Thursday, 25 August 2011 19:20 (twelve years ago) link