I HATE APPLE

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.

:)

just saw someone on twitter saying something similar to yr last point

I've never been an Apple fanboy. I use macs and a iPod, but I would watch the keynote speeches or anything. But what I really dislike is how soon the backlash comes on Twitter especially. People express their awe and grief for Jobs resigning, which is completely fair, but less than 12 hours later there's also loads of people who feel the need to say "enough of Jobs already!". I don't think I'll ever understand people.

wouldn't watch

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 don't know abt markers or any other apple stans but for me (ridic. fanboy) it's always been about Apple seeming to care about the same sort of things in tech that I do, and the fear of what it'll be like without them.

If you look at the state of computing around the 96/97 time when Apple was dying, it was woeful -- state of the art was Win 95, the operating system that warned you during installation that the installer might crash and just to pull the plug if it did. The thought of having to use that because the Mac was about to die ... brrr. Hardware is just as bad. There's been a pretty consistent pattern since about 1990 of me going "shit, I want an X that works, when is Apple going to make one?" because all the Xs on the market were hard-to-use dreck for engineers, and when Apple finally made an X it was damn-near exactly what I wanted (even if I didn't know what that was!).

X could have been a laptop, or a printer, or an MP3 player, or a phone, or a tablet. Each time, the tech industry was shoving out crap, and Apple blew it away. They have forgotten better stuff than some companies will ever make. The damn iPhone 4 is already making a better job of being a pocket digital camera than the entire camera industry could come up with. Srsly -- furiously competitive market in the world and nobody else could come up with tap-to-focus, let alone instagram?

There's a quote from Jobs which is a bit much for me, where he says that he doesn't hate Microsoft, it's "just that they simply have no taste." He might as well have said that most of the tech industry doesn't have any taste. And if you're into tasteful gadgetry instead of yet more junk, the idea of the industry without Apple is a bleak one.

(There's also the fact that when Microsoft was at its height, it was seen as inevitable that we'd have to put up with their shitey crashy will-this-do? bullshit because that was what people "wanted". You had to argue hard for the Mac way of thinking, while it had barely 3% market share, and that defensiveness (plenty of it Apple-encouraged) gave rise to a whole culture, which has weirdly infected kids who've never known anything but a totally dominant Apple.)

tldr: Jobs saved Apple, Apple make stuff that doesn't make you want to continually stab yr eyes, Apple without Jobs could be a disaster, need to sharpen my pencils again, boo.

Jobs is a modern American folk hero, a Paul Bunyan of the digital age.

PS Are there any Apple keynote speeches/presentations on youtube that are especially historic/amazing to watch? I don't mind sitting through that stuff but some of it is really long and I'd like to be pointed to the 'greatest hit' maybe. Is there a top ten list somewhere?