RIP Steve Jobs
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- instrmntl0
A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs
www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/opini…...- nicely said/done...adumbratesly
- heavy..inteliboy
- good readinv
- touchingali
- page not founddbloc
- feel0
omg u guys still over it?
- loool0
^ seems not
- instrmntl0
The New Yorker just came out with a good article:
The Tweaker
The real genius of Steve Jobs.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporti…
- TheGreatGlorpo0
WTF...
- 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
- 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
- jadrian_uk0
Was he on the dark side of the force?
- dasmeteor0
How much do you think it cost to build an Iphone?
- The Iphone 4 costs just $187.51 to make.
http://www.theinquirer.net/inqui…- yep that argument doesn't work - macs are tripe the price of a pc which are also made in Chinafadein11
- kwontuhmwhirl0
movie in works clooney is playing him so i read or guy from pirates
- obsolete0
does google have mail?
- animatedgif0
"The Iphone 4 costs just $187.51 to make"
Not this shit again, yeah and a CD costs pennies to print and a download costs even less to store and transmit.
Lets just completely ignore all the people involved in designing, advertising, developing and maintaining the product.
also "Just" $200? hahahaha! $200 is expensive for a production price.
- this is the RIP Steve Jobs threadmonospaced
- LOLdasmeteor
- it was a terribly written and thought out article. Just ignore it.Amicus
- dasmeteor0
Snoop Dogg tribute.
- benfal990
""the iPhone 5 is a “complete redesign. This is a very large project that Steve dedicated all of his time to. He was not that involved in the 4S because his time was limited.”""
- dbloc0
- http://www.appleinsi…dbloc
- smart location in in Texas to boot
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$panacea
- zoozoo0
I would not expect Jobs influence to completely influence the next iphone design, I'm sure there would be some tweeking still going on at this stage... how the hell would he and Ive streamline that thing even more when the fn mackbook and powermac are still identical since mid-decade.
- jadrian_uk0
fuck computers
- panacea0
available here, they GI Joe'd his ass
http://inicons.com/