Rest In Peace
Merged: Steve Jobs has Passed away
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Steve Jobs was a great man for humanity.
RIP and thanks for your great contributions to the world.
I always wonder, if not for him and Woz, will the personal PC have changed the world? Would we have had a personal PC as soon as we did?
RIP.
Good read: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0471720836/?tag=vp314-20
RIP and thanks for your great contributions to the world.
I always wonder, if not for him and Woz, will the personal PC have changed the world? Would we have had a personal PC as soon as we did?
RIP.
Good read: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0471720836/?tag=vp314-20
R.I.P Steve.....and thanks
Just Pre-ordered the new book on Steve Jobs, to be released on Oct 24th
The book, which was fully authorized by Steve Jobs and is based on over 40 interviews with Jobs and interviews with over 100 of his friends and family members, was already of strong interest to Apple fans and has seen a massive increase in demand since yesterday, registering as the #1 selling book at Amazon with a sales gain on the order of 40,000% over the past 24 hours.
This will be a great read.
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R.I.P Steve Jobs.
You've been a HUGE help in the way I record, produce and mix music for the masses.
Thanks for EVERYTHING.
-Mango-
The book, which was fully authorized by Steve Jobs and is based on over 40 interviews with Jobs and interviews with over 100 of his friends and family members, was already of strong interest to Apple fans and has seen a massive increase in demand since yesterday, registering as the #1 selling book at Amazon with a sales gain on the order of 40,000% over the past 24 hours.
This will be a great read.
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R.I.P Steve Jobs.
You've been a HUGE help in the way I record, produce and mix music for the masses.
Thanks for EVERYTHING.
-Mango-
Re: Steve Jobs is dead
Maybe if he had contributed (more?) to Cancer research, then he would have witnessed a cure or at least a breakthrough.
Maybe if he had contributed (more?) to Cancer research, then he would have witnessed a cure or at least a breakthrough.
iFans are rabid... they may throw down with Westboro...and they announced this using an iphone lol
Re: Steve Jobs is dead
He likely has. He never made public what he gave to, or much about his private life at all to the point that the only reason people know he was a Democrat is due to donations made in his wife's name. There's been several large anonymous donations to cancer research teams of several universities, especially over the past 5 years or so, but we'll probably never really know nor is it really anyone's business. I'll doubt his survivors will ever bring it up unless people try to shit on his legacy after a while.
He likely has. He never made public what he gave to, or much about his private life at all to the point that the only reason people know he was a Democrat is due to donations made in his wife's name. There's been several large anonymous donations to cancer research teams of several universities, especially over the past 5 years or so, but we'll probably never really know nor is it really anyone's business. I'll doubt his survivors will ever bring it up unless people try to shit on his legacy after a while.
Steve Jobs was a bad muhfucka, came from a working class family and had to drop out of college because it was too expensive.
Respect.
R.I.P.
Respect.
R.I.P.
Re: Steve Jobs is dead
Very true. That is a possibility. The more and more I witness death of 'invincibles', the more I realize that the legacy you leave behind after life should be equally as great or greater than the mark you leave when you are alive.
Life truly does go on.
Very true. That is a possibility. The more and more I witness death of 'invincibles', the more I realize that the legacy you leave behind after life should be equally as great or greater than the mark you leave when you are alive.
Life truly does go on.
Re: Steve Jobs is dead
Gawker just went in on people who are going nuts over his death
http://gawker.com/5847338/steve-jobs-was-not-god
Gawker just went in on people who are going nuts over his death
http://gawker.com/5847338/steve-jobs-was-not-god
Just like your wallet when it comes to your kids.
and of course
I don't disagree with the above post, but I think it missed what dude was about.
Engineers in the fam consider this proposition: Jobs was the most influential systems integrator the world has yet seen.
And for the old heads in the fam- doesn't this remind you of when John Lennon got shot? Folks who never met him or barely knew him acting like they lost a parent? Just saying.
Engineers in the fam consider this proposition: Jobs was the most influential systems integrator the world has yet seen.
And for the old heads in the fam- doesn't this remind you of when John Lennon got shot? Folks who never met him or barely knew him acting like they lost a parent? Just saying.
fuck steve the homo jobs!!!! niccas crying over this craKKKa
I gotta disagree with a lot of that.
1. Yes digital music over the internet existed before itunes, along with several different programs that sold it. But the difference is that before him no one tried to sell it in a total package, that is with a audio player, and a decent sized stable of artists from all labels. People before either made you buy the entire album, charged more than $99 or only got a few labels to agree. If it was all about force then people would have moved on when other stores that were DRM free were available.
2. Pretty much every player before the IPod had something about it that was bullshit. Huge, zero buffer, hard to find, or whatever. In Sept 2001 about the only one that could have done it was the Creative nomad, and their software was shit. I had to use 3rd party software to use it properly and even with their software I could never get it to play a song from a folder at random unless I played a song from it first. I didn't buy a ipod until around 5 years later but I'll admit that it was among the first that didn't have a major flaw.
3. If you are looking for something 96 to now, USB. It was on machines from windows 95 onward but you can thank Apple's users to getting stores to actually carry products. It was controversial at the time as he killed off Apple's ADB at the same time which some thought was superior. There's more to this but it belongs more in the next post.
the rest: The key to his success was knowing what would get normal consumers excited, and what would make it too confusing or something they would not use. This goes all the way back to the Apple II. Even today a lot of companies still don't get it, specs mean nothing when you don't understand them or you cant keep track what type of memory your phone uses, or how to install things and on and on. It kept growing because it was consistent, not because they were locked in.
1. Yes digital music over the internet existed before itunes, along with several different programs that sold it. But the difference is that before him no one tried to sell it in a total package, that is with a audio player, and a decent sized stable of artists from all labels. People before either made you buy the entire album, charged more than $99 or only got a few labels to agree. If it was all about force then people would have moved on when other stores that were DRM free were available.
2. Pretty much every player before the IPod had something about it that was bullshit. Huge, zero buffer, hard to find, or whatever. In Sept 2001 about the only one that could have done it was the Creative nomad, and their software was shit. I had to use 3rd party software to use it properly and even with their software I could never get it to play a song from a folder at random unless I played a song from it first. I didn't buy a ipod until around 5 years later but I'll admit that it was among the first that didn't have a major flaw.
3. If you are looking for something 96 to now, USB. It was on machines from windows 95 onward but you can thank Apple's users to getting stores to actually carry products. It was controversial at the time as he killed off Apple's ADB at the same time which some thought was superior. There's more to this but it belongs more in the next post.
the rest: The key to his success was knowing what would get normal consumers excited, and what would make it too confusing or something they would not use. This goes all the way back to the Apple II. Even today a lot of companies still don't get it, specs mean nothing when you don't understand them or you cant keep track what type of memory your phone uses, or how to install things and on and on. It kept growing because it was consistent, not because they were locked in.
this is very ignorant... business and tech wise, whoever wrote it doesn't know what the fuck they are talking about...
just on the first point ... Apple forced the majors to agree on a uniform price point for music (many forget how obstinate the RIAA was to internet commerce) -made it easier /simpler for the public to buy music than to steal it -made it cheaper to buy music digitally instead of brick and mortar - creating revenue where none existed previously... like tablet PCs. they were a dieing fad until Apple released the iPad
I don't feel like breaking down the rest of this ignorance... the innovations were in business and tech... sometimes utilizing tech others couldn't see the benefit of, like the GUI that almost everyone uses now, that Apple was the first to use, Xerox invented it but couldn't apply it...
or like visual voicemail, the wheel and interface on the iPod, capacitive touchscreens on devices, with the ability to accept multiple simultaneous input...
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respect that for sure
I believe it but just say it ain't so Tech, say it ain't so?RIP to all the factory workers at Foxcomm who jumped out of the factory windows making your products.
Man, I hear you but I just need an ID on the chic in your sig? MERCY!