Apple Founder Steve Jobs Passes Away at 56

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.

I hesitate even skimming through these comments. I'm sure there will be more than the needed amount of vitriol, which is zero.

RIP in real life Cave Johnson. :(

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.

RIP Steve Jobs, sad to see him leave us.

This is truly a sad day. I'm still in the process of thinking about the overall impact Mr.Jobs has had on the way I live my life today. He was an amazing man. RIP.

RIP Steve Jobs

I don't care what "technological allegiances" you have, it's never a bright day when a visionary passes away. I hope peace finds you, Mr. Jobs. You've more than earned it.

Again, only ten years older than me. What drives a person to such a degree?

RIP Steve.

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.

This is a shame :'(

RIP :(

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.

RIP :(

I find it kind of odd that the article is on Giantbomb, whereas on Tested there's just a picture with a headline.

I fucking hate cancer. Man, and if my family pattern holds, I've got about 9 years left before it takes me too.

God needs iPhones in heaven too apparently.

I'm not a very big fan of Apple products, but Steve Jobs was a man that I respected greatly, and am greatly saddened by this news.

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

Steve Jobs definitely changed the world. I'm on board with apple because of his keynotes.

While this is a tragic loss, I am interested to see how Apple recovers from this. At the end of the day everything still comes down to business and profits.

Dude was a great bridge between computer nerds and the rest of us - taking gear and ideas from the geek domain and translating them into something useable and attractive for the mass market. He was a marketing wizard. A sad day for his friends and family.

A true shame. At least he's no longer suffering.

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.

Damn it, I was looking forward to see what Steve would accomplish in the future.

Thanks for every little thing you have done to make this world a bit better.

Rest in peace.

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.

The world has lost one of the most influential men of this decade. He will be missed.

RIP

Sent from iPhone

He won!

I was shocked to hear about this. RIP.

@gladspooky said:

@mekon said:

@gladspooky said:

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?

Man ... October got off to a fucking shitty start. Such a shame.

RIP Steve Jobs

We miss you already. 

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.

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bummer. :( fuck cancer

Found out Steve Jobs died from a tweet on my new iPad, you will be missed Steve.

The word "Genius" gets thrown around way too much these days, but we have lost a true genius today. RIP Steve Jobs.

Man, Steve Jobs took all the fanboy criticism of the iPhone 4S really hard.

;_;

he will be missed

RIP

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.

He changed everything. The way we work, the way we think, and now he's dead. Just slightly older than my own father.