I HATE APPLE

wait he has had pancreatic cancer for ~seven years~???????

that is nuts

wait n/m he has a neuroendocrine tumor

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.

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

For sure.

boom: http://www.apple.com/pr/bios/

uh, ron johnson left iirc?

read that as "ron swanson"

I just noticed, there's 16 men and one woman on that page.

those "exective profiles" photos are so fucked up.

ikr, two of them actually frighten me

WTF Al Gore?

waht is markers on twitter. i need more rts

Jobs quotes: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/08/24/steve-jobss-best-quotes/

hahaha i was rt'ing nytimes, df, etc.

WTF Al Gore?

― 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

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

Does this mean we might FINALLY get Flash compatibility?

PappyD61 on August 24, 2011 at 8:02 PM
LOL. No.

joejm65 on August 24, 2011 at 8:03 PM

i only read playboy for the steve jobs quotes.

<3<3<3 http://allenpaltrow.tumblr.com/post/9375814057/my-experience-with-jobs-and-apple

I thought I read somewhere that adobe was kind of silently killing flash off with this Edge thing

it's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right, i hope it had the time of its life . . .

http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-ceo-tim-cook-im-thinking-printers,21207/

lolling

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

don't diss the apple laserwriter.

stet, thanks for that patent link! hadn't seen that linked to anywhere yet

god bless the goddamn onion

linking to this again -- totally worth reading: http://allenpaltrow.tumblr.com/post/9375814057/my-experience-with-jobs-and-apple

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.

damn the pictures are making me tear up

glad to see the bar is still high at princeton

That kid whose life revolved around Apple... wow.

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.

I see what u did there HOOS

what'd i do

semi-called markers out for stanning because he's just kind of into it?

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)

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

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

coddling markers is nagl dudes

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, August 25, 2011 2:59 PM

i totally will, just need to think abt it first

have a few beers and just rant a bit, that is what I did last night.

Apple has no fyoochure now

lg = you the best

Steve Jobs' first and only authorized biography, "Steve Jobs: A Biography," will be updated with news of the Apple CEO's sudden resignation on Wednesday night and remains on track to hit bookstores in November.
Publisher Simon & Schuster said the highly anticipated tell-all biography, written by acclaimed biographer Walter Isaacson, will include Wednesday night's announcement from Jobs' point of view.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2391778,00.asp

this is a good story: https://plus.google.com/107117483540235115863/posts/gcSStkKxXTw

(vic's an svp at google)

Love that story Markers!

Only think I can't help but thinking is: these are stories that surface when someone has died.