I am certainly no fan of apple or their products or their effect on games but he was certainly a visionary creator and changed the way people do their jobs and live their lives globally.
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Apple Inc., originally Apple Computer, is a computer company founded in 1977 by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. Famous for creating and owning both the software and hardware of their computers, they pursued this strategy in other consumer products, with the most notable being the iPod and iPhone.
Apple Founder Steve Jobs Passes Away at 56
I hesitate even skimming through these comments. I'm sure there will be more than the needed amount of vitriol, which is zero.
Thanks for giving us some of the most amazing business practices, and marketing tools the world has ever seen.
Via con Dios
@YetiAntics: I wonder if people realize that pretty much every big tech advancement/tech is usually inspired by science fiction? Hell, there were space shuttles named Enterprise, people.
Lot of Apple haters bringing back handed comments or outright disrespectful things to Apple, it's consumers, and Steve Jobs. Oh internet.
RIP Steve Jobs.
Very sad day. He changed the game more than once in his lifetime, few people can ever say that. His impact on the tech world will be missed.
It doesn't matter what you did with your life -good or bad- the death of any and all human beings should be honored with at the very least a small sliver of respect; those you out there that can't understand this, just think how it would feel to know if people were "satisfied" by the announcement of your passing...
On a different note, Cancer is a tough battle to fight and Steve gave it his all as he did everything in life
Rest in peace, man
Don't mean to be a douche, but stop saying he moved technology forward. The people who move technology forward are the scientists who work at companies like IBM. Just because they do it for the pleasure of invention instead of commercialising their success doesn't mean they need to be ignored.
This just reaffirms my belief that obituaries of any form should not be on the internet. It's just not mature enough to handle it.
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Pffft, this isn't news, Klepek. Why don't you go post this shit on your blog and leave the real news to the professional journalists?
Not news? Company worth nothing in the 90's turned around to be one of the biggest tech companies in existence now, owing largely to his influence. I found this story on this site before any other, and I'm grateful to Patrick for that so I think you might have fallen the wrong side out of bed this morning.
And a third. People on the internet have lost their sense of humor.
I'm not sure how your comment would ever be funny even in a sarcastic way. Maybe you could explain it to us?
Weird to see this on GB. Steve Jobs always did everything he could to have nothing to do with games. The popularity of games on iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch happened in spite of him, not because of him.
Other than that, I've got to say that I'm a bit surprised to see so many emotional responses to his death on various tech sites. I doubt any other prominent tech figure would get that kind of reaction - not even Bill Gates who at least has worked hard to make the world a better place through his foundation. Is it just that Jobs was such a visible leader?
By all accounts he wasn't a very sympathetic person and it's not clear to me how much he can truly be said to have been responsible for Apple's recent successes. Whether his influence on gaming is ultimately beneficial ror harmful also remains to be seen. All that being said, this is obviously a sad day for the industry.
Lot of Apple haters bringing back handed comments or outright disrespectful things to Apple, it's consumers, and Steve Jobs. Oh internet. RIP Steve Jobs.You should see the other board I post on. Imagine a collection of misanthropic individuals trying to one-up one another with smart aleck remarks between long-winded rants about people expressing their condolences. Take the worst comments in this thread, amplify them, then picture them as the majority. Oh internet indeed.
The word "Genius" gets thrown around way too much these days, but we have lost a true genius today. RIP Steve Jobs.
As i said in the chat. I don't understand people saying "I wonder what Apple will do now". They will do what they've always done. Apple is not some incredibly innovative corporation. What they've mastered is marketing techniques. Google, & Microsoft in this decade alone have been a lot more innovative and moved industries forward. Far more than Apple, with all that said, RIP. Though i'm atheist so.....yeah.
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