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10-06-2011, 02:16 PM
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the co founder of apple.
does anyone apart from shareholders and family actually give a toss?
they said on the news he was a modern inventor like eddison, WTF, he didn't hold a candle to eddison. they also said he was a great man. again, wtf! the guys known he was going to die for more than 5 years and what does he do, goes to fuckin work, "i love my family and decided spending the rest of my life at work will make me a great person" the guy, from where i'm standing was a selfish money grubber who on the face of it didn't give a toss about his family.
india have just brought out an android tablet for 39 dollars, thats what killed him, he had the tools and oppertunity to put a cheap tablet into the hands of the masses but fuck that, lets make a 400 dollar plus tablet that sucks hairy balls that isn't that good, and put it on the market for the suckers to buy. admittedly the indian pad is short on power and memory but they had the foresight to put two usb ports on the fucker.
he may have been a goodish man but i think he was far from great, like they say he is on the news channels and in the tweets for the dead.
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I think you have that the wrong way round.
I wouldn't say he was a good or even "goodish" man by any stretch of the imagination. You don't get to be that rich and powerful without stamping on lots of people, including (as you point out) your own family and the world's less-than-financially-well-off.
But he is a very big part of the reason Apple is the biggest company in the entire world--the adjective "great" is perfectly apt.
[Edison, since you mention him, was a scumbag who stole most of the inventions he's credited with. So perhaps you might want to lump Jobs alongside him after all
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10-06-2011, 11:25 PM
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I don't see his death as any different than when someones Great Uncle Fred dies. Fred did some good things, but he was also a bit of a douchebag. When people die it makes us uncomfortable and we tend to cast them in a good light (halo-effect).
Jobs helped get the personal computer pointed in the direction it is now. He was an innovator. He also gave book publishers the nerve to push back against amazon and raise their e-book prices from $9.99 to $14.99. He did a good job leading his company a second time. But the very ego that allows you to do that means that most of us would have considered him an asshole if we met him.
We live in a world that considered Princess Diana a greater contributor to society in the last thousand years than Jonas Salk who gave us the polio vaccine. It's a cult of celebrity. You have to expect the outpouring from the media, Jobs was one of their own.
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Was he not a creative? There are other areas of life than the arts, in which creativity is important, and business is one of them. I admire a person who creates even a small business from nothing, let alone some great empire. And before anyone gets carried away with the idea that Jobs devoted his entire life to Apple -- he didn't. I did not know the bloke, so I have no idea what manner of man he was, but it does seem sad when anyone dies so young, relatively speaking.
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while the adjective feels like it works, the contex it was used in was with one of good, though i suppose i'm being subjective. he was an innovator yes, but most of all he was greedy and as ts, often walked on others,
all the remarks about him on media sites is sickening, they even say he made the stuff going on in the middle east easier. like all arabs have a fuckin iphone. in truth it's a bit sickening.
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if it wasn't him, it would have been someone else. just look at google.
the pc was ripe for innovation, still is, i think we'd still be at this point without the cunt.
the real innovators of the home and personal pc was guys like alan sugar and even sinclair.
like everyone else jobs just built on someone elses hard work.
on the news in the bottom bar the word;
iCON
appeared, i secretly laughed and thought "no more"
i think iCON is a fitting epitaph for one of the best con artists in the modern world
