RIP Steve Jobs
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- ernexbcn0
The author of his biography, Walter Isaacson writes:
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As a writer, I was used to being detached, but I was hit by a wave of sadness as I tried to say goodbye. In order to mask my emotion, I asked the one question that was still puzzling me: Why had he been so eager, during close to 50 interviews and conversations over the course of two years, to open up so much for a book when he was usually so private? “I wanted my kids to know me,” he said. “I wasn’t always there for them, and I wanted them to know why and to understand what I did.”
/40,000% increase in sales in the past 24 hours of his biography.
- The biography includes an interview from 4 weeks agoernexbcn
- Hombre_Lobo0
i thought 'adult' content wasn't allowed in the app store?
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/g…
- ernexbcn0
Wozniak remembers Steve Jobs
- gramme0
"Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart."
- monospaced0
^ dumbass, that's what people said yesterday about today, and it's still going up
- that's based upon the iPhone 5 release. Give it a few weeks.popfodders
- A few weeks? why? I don't think their P&L will, all of a sudden, sour w/o Jobs at the helm.WrappedInBooks
- Hey, I could be wrong, but that's the general consensus with the investors that I know.popfodders
- lol. 'with the investors i know'
You realise how much of a penny-trader that makes you sound?detritus - who are these investors that you know?JSK
- a few weeks it may go up. It went down with the 4S release but it came back up.k_temp
- once iphone 4S start selling with all carriers (sprint included) that thing is going upk_temp
- popfodders0
SELL YOUR APPLE STOCKS NOW!
http://www.google.com/finance?cl…
See that zenith there? That's about as high as you're going to see it. Tomorrow morning.... Free fall... No trust in it without him.
- So how many millions have you made from your stock trades?JSK
- Ha ha, nothing much tbh. I lost my ass in 2009. Hedge gave me bad advice... ;) //popfodders
- The dip in their stock isn't nearly as much as when Tim Cook took over. Foxconn had more effect over their stock.WrappedInBooks
- JSK0
Jobs much like Edison did not invent something new but rather they democratized the product such as light bulb for Edison and PC / mobile device for Jobs.
- Talent borrows, genius steals! Maybe that old adage is true.popfodders
- exactly, JSK, exactlymonospaced
- JSK0
Edison's companies
He was not a some lonely man sitting in a lab inventing stuff but rather a conglomerate. His name reside with most of the inventions because he refused to give the invention credit to the people who worked for him. Notable company that he has created and we know today would be GE.
Menlo Park Research Lab
Edison Electric Illuminating Company of New York
Edison Manufacturing Company
Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
Edison Studios
Lansden Company
Battery Supplies Company
Deutsche Edison Akkumulatoren Company
Edison Gesellschaft
Edison Storage Battery Company
Edison Storage Battery Garage, Incorporated
Edison Storage Battery Supply Company.
Architectural Concrete Company
Edison Crushing Roll Company
Edison Portland Cement Company
Edison Pulverized Limestone Company
North Jersey Paint Company
Pilling & Crane
Warren County Warehouse Company
Bergmann & Company
Edison Company for Isolated Lighting
Edison Electric Light Company
Edison General Electric Company (GE today)
Edison Lamp Company
Edison Machine Works
Edison Shafting Manufacturing Company
Edison United Manufacturing Company
Edison Wiring Company
Electric Tube Company
etc etc- Edison licensed his name out with the patents and getting shares of the companies as wellJSK
- Edison absolutely genius in the lab and in the banking room.popfodders
- WTF is a banking room? One of your inventions?DrBombay
- A room where you bank.JSK
- You've never heard the term? Old tyme: http://www.onekingwe…popfodders
- dunno, maybe it's a regional colloquialismpopfodders
- Lol @ mentioning things that came to be many years after he started ALONE. Idiots.CygnusZero4
- Jobs wasnt alone even right from the start. Dont act like he changed the world alone. Edison basically did.CygnusZero4
- hubb7designs0
- welcome to being human, now stop crying about itCygnusZero4
- TheMagicSheep0
fuck you cancer
- 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
- nb0
http://www.wired.com/
Timeline?*Note: this relevance of this link will undoubtedly expire.
- http://boingboing.ne…ernexbcn
- Wow. Boing Boing had to have that pre-prepared. Morbid bastards...detritus
- ..very good though! :)detritus
- nice touch Boing Boingdbloc
- vaxorcist0
- Damn! cool MOFO
Ambushstudio - Jobs - the original and true hipsterJSK
- True American Bad Assdbloc
- Damn! cool MOFO
- monospaced0
Schools will probably be named after him. Like Edison.
- Not so sure about that.CygnusZero4
- Edison had a bigger impact on the world.CygnusZero4
- I agree mono, in 10 years people will understand how important that chap was...Ambushstudio
- Steve's vision made computers useful and ubiquitous, thus defining the modern world, much like a lightbulb.monospaced
- OH COME ON.
They were both Patent hoarding team-members..detritus - and I really do question this whol 'Jobs invented the PC' thing. that's total bullshit.detritus
- 'Team leaders' even.detritus
- Difference is Edison worked alone, coming up with ideas and building them. Steve didnt do this.CygnusZero4
- Steve worked with teams to create things. Some of these things arent solely from him.CygnusZero4
- I never, ever said he invented the computer. I said his vision made computing useful for the everyday person.monospaced
- It's Apple as a whole, hundreds of individuals, who invented things. But Steve was the face.monospaced
- You mightnt've, mono - but the rest of the free world is saying he did.detritus
- Edison had the company. Edison DID NOT work alone. Tesla worked for Edison.JSK
- ..and your posts and reverence implies sole responsibility.detritus
- Read up on Edison - he was a bit of a bastard. Like Jobs. But then, so are many Greats. Hitler and Khan too...detritus
- well, we all know most of the world are idiots. I don't want to be misinterpreted.monospaced
- (that was a bit of a joke, before anyone gets too angsty)detritus
- Edison didn't work alone. He worked very much like Jobs__TM
- Edison company has turned in to utility corp after years.JSK