RIP Steve Jobs
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- adumbratesly0
- As much as I may have disagreed with his policies I still respected him - RIPadumbratesly
- GeorgesII0
I spent a lot of time after the keynote yesterday thinking about how Siri could be the first serious step towards transhumanism,
having an AI that will know you intimatelly, learn from you and finally get to think like you is pretty much what us science fiction fans have been waiting for,
anyways, Siri could be used to stock a person's entire's life alla Caprica or ghost in the shell,Maybe a part of himself is stocked in machine somewhere, will never know. I'm not a apple fan but thank you mr Jobs
- prophetone0
so sad, a visionary lost.
- DaveO0
My girlfriend said a really candid thing today, just on email – "So sad about Steve Jobs.....makes you wonder if the future stops happening for a while"
- utopian0
Apple's American job disaster
Manufacture of its products meant good-paying jobs in the U.S. But a move to China took them away.
The death of Steve Jobs was followed by an avalanche of superlatives - brilliant, genius, and visionary among the more common. He was likened to Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, and Thomas Edison.
But in the case of Edison, there was one significant difference that went unmentioned. For more than a century, just one of Edison's inventions alone - the incandescent lightbulb - was manufactured at numerous locations in the United States, providing employment for millions of Americans across family generations.
The Apple home computer, not at all. After only one generation, all the Apple manufacturing jobs in America disappeared, as the work of building and assembling the machines was turned over to laborers in sweatshops in China and other countries. Jobs that should have provided employment for Americans for decades to come were terminated.
For Apple, the corporation, the system functioned beautifully. This year the company had more cash in its bank accounts than the U.S. Treasury. And for one day, Monday, Sept. 19, the company was the most valuable corporation on the planet, its stock worth $382 billion. It was a sum that exceeded even the worth of Exxon Mobil Corp., the world's largest international oil and gas company.
Full Story: http://www.philly.com/philly/opi…
Greed is Good!
- perhaps, but if they manufactured the machines here, would anyone be willing to pay double or tripple for a laptop?_niko
- ...laptop, ipod, monitor ect._niko
- Shit, if I had one of the jobs that would bring back to the US, I might.BrokenHD
- boycott Apple till they bring there production back to the US? ha yeah right, I need my mac OS. #designBrokenHD
- they are already triple the cost of a PC also manufactured in China so that argument doesnt washfadein11
- pr20
It's sad that he died, but it's also sad that in those last pictures that were leaked it was obvious that he can't face his own mortality.
- ernexbcn0
- pre-Jon Ive. He's nothing without him. Apple was dying.popfodders
- popfodder - you must look for ways to alienate yourself here...identity
- popfodders, you just keep digging a deeper holemonospaced
- jon_d0
90% of electronics are made in china, what else is new?
- that's not a story though. Know one cares about samsung or nike. you know what's a story? Steve Jobs.inteliboy
- *nointeliboy
- exactly. we are on the same page.jon_d
- 47.3% of all statistics are made up on the spot.ribit
- up 5.8% from this time last yearBrokenHD
- yeah why do they make such a big deal about it, huh? because everythingg is fucking made in chinazoozoo
- jon_d0
those pics were fake
- TheMagicSheep0
fuck you cancer
- _niko0
End of an era, apple as we know it died today as well.
in 5 years it'll be a shell of what it is today.
- jadrian_uk0
fuck computers
- GeorgesII0
bump?
- Samothrace0
Steve Jobs Biography: Jobs Warned Obama He'd Have 'One-Term Presidency'
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology…
Steve Jobs, the inventive and often strong-willed co-founder of Apple, warned Barack Obama, "You're headed for a one-term presidency" during a frank 45-minute meeting last year.Jobs' confrontation with the president is one of the many details reported by Walter Isaacson, whose 630-page authorized biography, "Steve Jobs," is scheduled for release Monday. Isaacson is scheduled to give his first live interview Monday on "Good Morning America."
- *yawn, old newsmonospaced
- book came out two days ago, so now I know you're just trollingmonospaced
- or late to the news, what is wrong with you?Samothrace
- Poptards you are painfully retarded!utopian
- jon_d0
The bottom line is this, never has a company matched the functionality and usability of Apple products and their sometimes flawless execution in interaction.
Ever.
And I am still waiting.
Those typography classes did Jobs well.
- jon_d0
http://mashable.com/2011/10/07/s…
"What’s the point of my story? Pixar did all this under the guidance of Steve Jobs, who died this week at the age of 56. He owned the company and while Jobs may have envisioned Pixar software and even Pixar computer systems, he listened when John Lasseter pitched him on a feature-length, all CGI-movie."
- hubb7designs0
- welcome to being human, now stop crying about itCygnusZero4
- Continuity0
'Apple surprises with rare earnings miss'
http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/…'It's the first time the company missed expectations for earnings per share since 2004. Analysts were expecting as many as 22 million iPhone units to be sold. Instead, the company shipped 17.1 million units in the quarter.'
Well, duh ... it's a recession and people are fucking skint. They can't afford to splurge on iPhones and iPads.
- This is so lame. They missed the earnings by a small percent, and it's just some lame prediction anyway.monospaced
- Did nobody notice they sold more phones than anyone has ever done this quarter? Still breaking records.monospaced
- They literally sold over 4 million new phones just this last weekend.monospaced
- You have a boner... ;)DrBombay