Steve Jobs dead at 66

Apple founder Steve Jobs died tonight; you can get further details courtesy of Boston.com:

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By Hiawatha Bray, Globe Staff

Steve Jobs, the demanding visionary who understood before anyone else how deeply we would live our lives through our devices, has died at the age of 56, only weeks after resigning as chief executive of computer giant Apple Inc. for health reasons.

Jobs revitalized Apple by transforming smartphones, computers, and media players into objects of desire. He insisted the company put the human experience first, focusing on design as well as technological prowess. Fifteen years ago,Apple flirted with bankruptcy; today, it is one of the most successful companies on earth. Only oil titan Exxon Mobil Corp. is worth more.

“He taught all of us how to transform technology into magic,” said John Sculley, Apple’s chief executive in the mid-1980s, and the man who once had Jobs kicked out of the company he’d co-founded.

After he was ousted, Jobs endured a decade of exile. But the experience taught him lessons that would, once he returned, help him lead Apple to unimaginable heights of achievement.

“Steve’s big contribution to the computer industry was to take it away from the nerds and give it to the people,” said Bob Metcalfe, co-inventor of Ethernet networking technology and a professor at the University of Texas at Austin.

Jobs was born in San Francisco on February 24, 1955 to Syrian immigrant Abdulfattah John Jandali and Joanne Schieble, both graduate students at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

While it's sad that the world has lost yet another to cancer, it's too bad he didn't take Apple with him

I guess the iPhone 4S was just too much of a disappointment.

Stay classy, guys. Stay classy.

SlyChild wrote:

Stay classy, guys. Stay classy.

Aren't we always?

Shouldn't this topic read Steve Jobs Dead at 56?

Lady Anne wrote:

Shouldn't this topic read Steve Jobs Dead at 56?

So Chris91 fails at copypasta too...is anyone really surprised?

Also, I'm more amused at the fact that there is a person in the world named Hiawatha Bray. I'd like to meet that person's parents. Either they have a really interesting sense of humor, or none at all.

Kinda sad really. I hope he wasn't around to see the disappointment in the launch of the 4s. I feel sorry for Steve Jobs, but I still can't feel anywhere near as sorry for his company.

Quijotesca wrote:

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Okay, I laughed.

Lapin wrote:

SlyChild wrote:

Stay classy, guys. Stay classy.

Aren't we always?

Uh, no.

Chris91 wrote:

Lapin wrote:

SlyChild wrote:

Stay classy, guys. Stay classy.

Aren't we always?

Uh, no.

that was the joke you fuckwit

Lady Anne wrote:

Shouldn't this topic read Steve Jobs Dead at 56?

You're right, it should. I was so busy trying to be sure I got the story posted in a timely fashion I forgot to double-check the topic heading.

Electron Blue: Lighten up, pal.

Quijotesca wrote:

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I shouldn't be surprised at this.

There goes the innovation! D:

TheIan wrote:

Quijotesca wrote:

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I shouldn't be surprised at this.

I cannot view most images on my work computer so I have no idea what you posted Qui, but is it about westburo? Because yeah.

Reepicheep-chan wrote:

TheIan wrote:

Quijotesca wrote:

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I shouldn't be surprised at this.

I cannot view most images on my work computer so I have no idea what you posted Qui, but is it about westburo? Because yeah.

Westburo putting up a tweet about picketing his funeral, via an iphone, yeah.

Chris91 wrote:

Lady Anne wrote:

Shouldn't this topic read Steve Jobs Dead at 56?

You're right, it should. I was so busy trying to be sure I got the story posted in a timely fashion I forgot to double-check the topic heading.

Electron Blue: Lighten up, pal.

So being the first to post something is more important than accurately posting? Cool...

@Somath: OK, I thought that was probably what it was, I saw it somewhere else and... yeah. Just... yeah.

Salamas wrote:

Chris91 wrote:

Lady Anne wrote:

Shouldn't this topic read Steve Jobs Dead at 56?

You're right, it should. I was so busy trying to be sure I got the story posted in a timely fashion I forgot to double-check the topic heading.

Electron Blue: Lighten up, pal.

So being the first to post something is more important than accurately posting? Cool...

That's not what I meant. I meant that in my haste to get the story up I overlooked a critical editing step; I'm just as annoyed about the mistake as you guys are.

What's a 4S

Let Me Google That For You

What, I actually have to click links now?

EDIT: Oh okay, yeah. Boring. It looks like a bathroom tile.

Chris91 wrote:

Lapin wrote:

SlyChild wrote:

Stay classy, guys. Stay classy.

Aren't we always?

Uh, no.

...You really want to go with me again, you obtuse brat?

Quijotesca wrote:

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One of the kids printed this out today. I admit it. I lol'd.

Irony, thy name is WBC.

Lady Anne wrote:

Quijotesca wrote:

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One of the kids printed this out today. I admit it. I lol'd.

Irony, thy name is WBC.

If they disliked him that much, they should've just bought an Android