RIP Steve Jobs
- Started
- Last post
- 383 Responses
- monospaced0
Anyone who thinks Apple was/is a cult has lost their grip. Period.
- inteliboy0
so judging by the last few comments... what? these fans should just go home? people who worked with him should keep their positive mouths shut?
If it's pissing you off, stop reading said articles. Better yet, go read some internet forums as the large majority of the web hate on Apple if you haven't notice already...
- I never said that, I just said it was hypocrital to tell other to keep this thread clean and a homage like he deserved a special treatmentGeorgesII
- treatment, because you know he was a "genius", I should be able to criticize anyone, anywhere if I want too,GeorgesII
- just because you should have the right doesn't make it right.bogue
- monolith0
People have lost their grip with reality. They praise and raise an individual who basically made mp3 players, laptops, phones and consumer devices to the level of someone like Martin Luther King or other people who are truly deserving of bringing good and have changed the world in positive ways or contributed to those who needed it. In many cases these people who really deserve praise and mourning have really went through horrible suffering, beating, torturing and death to achieve something better in this world .
Steve Jobs? Not so much so. This just shows how skewed and horrific priorities and how superficial modern society has become.
Fanboys naturally look at Jobs as God (since he marketed himself as one through his corporate culture) and it's understandable they will go and cry or whatever. Their cult leader is dead.
But what's more annoying is the echo in media where noone really addresses true facts here. Every man's death is sad, especially when lost from cancer and fairly young, but we have to put things in perspective.
There are a lot of good articles coming out now that deal with this issue and really point out many facts that people just don't want to hear about Jobs. They just want to believe he was unbelievable man. In reality, he was a tyrant for those close to him and especially those who worked for him.
I think we are so out of sync that instead of being able to really just say that this guy had a significant influence on tech industry (in some good and bad ways) and leave it at that, he is being portrayed as someone who single-handed invented computers and changed the world because without him, we would be lost, which is complete nonsense.
This picture really shows how stupid people really are:
These are great articles that put things in perspective for those who lost it:
- GeorgesII0
oooh the hypocrisy,
"please be respectful, let's ignore everything negative he did, he's now dead and should be elevated to the level of Saint",ffs people we're all adult, if you can't handle contrary point of views because "for you" he's the one and this thread should be kept aseptic like the apple environment,
grow the fuck up,
why should anyone censure what we have to say about the guy because he's now dead, that didn't stop any of you when amy whinehouse died, didn't stop the cheers and jokes when osama was allegedly killed nor when that jackass guy crashed, michael jackson, etc
a life is a life no matter who it is, stop trying to prevent contrary voices to be heard
- who said anything about him being a saint? still RIPpizzafire
- "saint"? "grow the fuck up"?
fucking relax.inteliboy - Seriously, nobody said he was a saint. We just miss him.monospaced
- well said george - ridiculous cultish behaviour goin downfadein11
- instrmntl0
Try to keep it respectful. This thread should be an homage, regardless of anyone's opinions.
- YearzOne0
- truerandommail
- you kidding? wait until bill gates dies... media will be insane.inteliboy
- Remember that Bill Gates was thought of the same way until only a few years ago.Amicus
- inteliboy0
I like that story. In many ways his neurotic behaviour that people label as genius reminds me of Kubrick.
- BusterBoy0
Really like stories like that Icon Ambulance one - https://plus.google.com/10711748…
BUT I just can't imagine a world where CEOs get involved in such minor detail. Many would call this a brilliant attention to detail...but cripes...
- ernexbcn0
Eric Schmidt on Steve Jobs
'Steve and I were talking about children one time, and he said the problem with children is that they carry your heart with them. The exact phrase was, “It’s your heart running around outside your body.” That’s a Steve Jobs quote. He had a level of perception about feelings and emotions that was far beyond anything I’ve met in my entire life. His legacy will last for many years, through people he’s trained and people he’s influenced. But what death means is you can’t call—you can’t call him. It’s a loss. I’ll miss talking to him.'
- ernexbcn0
All the people complaining about the foxconn thing forget that foxconn builds also for the majority of PC brands.
Also, classy of you to post on a thread mourning the death of someone. Some of you need to get a life.
- i_monk0
How about some balance?
Why Steve Jobs doesn't deserve your tears:
http://www.artinfo.com/news/stor…Steve Jobs ignored factory workers who were poisoned in the process of making his touch screens:
http://www.christianpost.com/new…
http://www.globalpost.com/dispat…
- popfodders0
Steve Jobs reportedly died of respiratory arrest, tumor [Updated]
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/…
Steve Jobs died from respiratory arrest and a pancreatic tumor, according to his death certificate released Monday.
- Thanks for the update Poptard, you are a Beacon of Light...utopian
- and you think you own this site, GO FUCK YOURSELFpopfodders
- go clean your room before mommy gets home!utopian
- thanks for bringing us this useless informationernexbcn
- really?dbloc
- Beeswax0
Just sayin.
http://english.aljazeera.net/pro…"News of the spate of suicides [at the] Foxconn [plants] in 2010 alarmed me greatly and I wondered whether the harsh management methodology drove workers to despair.
As consumers we should ask ourselves how certain products are made .... Corporate social responsibility is always window-dressing measures without enforcement mechanisms and remedies for workers. So the only way to stop labour rights violations is through campaigning. We hope that more consumers can pressure Apple and Foxconn."
Debby Chan, activist
- wrong thread... di...monospaced
- ...ck...ArmandoEstrada
- This is an RIP thread. Just sayin.instrmntl
- hehe
– CygnusZero41/4
And to the people who made the trainers you're wearing, the phone you're using... yadda yadda!
– goldieboy2/4
This thread really is showing how fucking 'retarded' some people are!
– goldieboy3/4
Check the statistics... less people suicided in that factory (per 100,000) than in America.Amicus
- mtthwsms0
Just wrote this as part of my new site... http://www.matthewsims.net/blog/…
pretty amazing video at the end. My favorite thus far.
- jadrian_uk0
rip to the people who died working at Apple factories in china.
- heheCygnusZero4
- And to the people who made the trainers you're wearing, the phone you're using... yadda yadda!goldieboy
- This thread really is showing how fucking 'retarded' some people are!goldieboy
- Check the statistics... less people suicided in that factory (per 100,000) than in America.Amicus
- Amicus, why so self-centered, countrywise. Where's the relation to China and that counties suicidal tendencies?Peter
- country'sPeter