I HATE APPLE

I do love that an allegedly gay man is now CEO of such an enormous company.

― ceci n'est pas une witty dn (Schlafsack), Thursday, August 25, 2011 1:01 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

not even allegedly at this stage http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/08/25/dont-ignore-tim-cooks-sexuality/

also http://blog.fawny.org/2011/02/02/gaylives/

like, that's not an excuse to call you a dick, i'm curious why you're so weirdly venomous here.

― *steens furiHOOSly* (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, August 25, 2011 8:50 PM

for explanation, i turn it over to some dude

i'm done trying to cajole you into posting like the smart, opinionated person i know you are, i know you're dedicated to stupid gifs and youtubes and "looooool" til the end of time, i guess i should just ocnsider a killfile (i usually don't like the idea of a killfile because it seems like it would make threads confusing, but since you never prompt or participate in any real discussion it probably wouldn't make a difference).

― some dude, Friday, August 26, 2011 12:09 AM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

sorry you feel that way

― markers, Friday, August 26, 2011 12:11 AM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

sorry your posting persona sucks ass

― some dude, Friday, August 26, 2011 12:13 AM Bookmark

Picture of Steve Jobs from today, and ummm he doesn't look good at all http://www.tmz.com/2011/08/26/steve-jobs-apple-photo-resignation-ceo-sick

oh no! poor guy.

:-(

:-\

he looks dressed for the grave

holy crap, that is bad. he didn't look that bad a month ago or whenever the icould thing got announced. not good.

I can't figure out if and when I should sell aapl. I feel like I should have sold at 400, and now this. Obviously not that much is going to change in the short term day to day, but who knows what will happen when he dies. I guess they have a ridiculous amount of cash though.

looks.... fake?

i mean obviously he's sick enough to quit as CEO but that there photo don't really look right

is he wearing a dress

it's like somebody redacted his clothes with #000000

Fuck cancer

My initial thought was that it looks shopped.

my first thought upon hearing of this resignation was that hes prob at deaths door

Not downplaying his situation in any way but the man credited with making technology stylish and desirable is wearing socks and sandals.

socks and birkenstocks

if that's a real picture and he is as sick as he seems I have no doubt he would just want to be physically comfortable at this point. but I think that picture is a little suspicious

pic is more than a little suspicious. it's def. been shopped and i can't figure out why they'd want to do what they did.

Does TMZ normally fake its photos?

haha, he looks like Mr. Burns

he looks... believably horrible, but yeah the source isn't exactly impeccable: just some rando fifth rate tmz site http://pacificcoastnewsonline.celebuzz.com/

http://i.imgur.com/2VzbK.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/yrK3f.jpg

Please to not compare a stupid racist Vegas lounge act to Steve Jobs. Or anyone. Thanks.

your right mate thats unfair to the lounge act

MATE

yeah when did TamTam become BRITISH CUNT

http://i.imgur.com/WV5Y0.jpg

lol internet

New from apple. iCunt

Before Apple, the hard truth was that the "inmates ran the asylum," in that products were typically designed by engineers to satisfy their own needs, as opposed to those of the actual consumers of the products.

Moreover, products were designed and marketed according to their "speeds and feeds," checklists of attributes over well-chiseled, highly-crafted outcomes. And it didn't really matter if at each step along the value chain the consumer was disrespected and disregarded.

Ponder for a moment the predecessor to the Apple Store, CompUSA, and what that experience was like versus the new bar for customer service being set by Apple.

http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/08/steve-jobs-legacy-apple.html

the other thing about that jobs picture that is suspicious is the idea that a frail, on the verge of death steve jobs would just be hanging around outside posing for pictures in his black skirt or w/e -- dude is one of the most secretive guys on the planet

> Before Apple, the hard truth was that the "inmates ran the asylum," in that products were typically designed by engineers to satisfy their own needs, as opposed to those of the actual consumers of the products.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Apple_I_Computer.jpg/250px-Apple_I_Computer.jpg

he says "before apple," he means before the nu-jobs renaissance

http://www.amazon.com/Inmates-Are-Running-Asylum/dp/0672316498

^ first came out in 99

really good book fwiw

The intersection of technology and liberal arts

possible translation: the ipad and devices like it have produced computing's equivalent of philosophy or comp lit: an expensive, self-indulgent diversion

i forget you're a science guy sometimes.

products were typically designed by engineers to satisfy their own needs, as opposed to those of the actual consumers of the products

sometimes "engineers" and "actual consumers" are one and the same, and things like quantum mechanics and the space program and the internet happen. this goes all the way back to fourier and the first engineers.

at the opposite end of the extreme, the two groups have little overlap. that's what you call a "service industry" and unlike "real industry" it doesn't do a whole lot for the long-term prospects of the country.

i'm not a "science guy", hoos, i'm a "civil servant", and thus a strict utilitarian

That is why even though this moment was long anticipated, and while I know that Steve isn't gone (and hopefully won't be anytime soon), yesterday's announcement nonetheless feels like a "Kennedy" or "Lennon" moment, where you'll remember "where you were when ..."

haha wut

i didn't mean "science guy" derisively, i meant it as "strict utilitarian."

i don't think so, hoos, i think you're confusing me with a strict rationalist

no, a strict rationalist wouldn't call philosophy "self-indulgent."

iPad as the signature moment in a brilliant career

The Shins Will Change Your Life

lol

Not Apple, where sacred cows are ground up and served for lunch as standard operating procedure.

sick company, brah!