[Black Wolf]

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/steve-jobs-apple-ceo-dies/story?id=14383813

Whatever your opinion of Apple stuff, you can't deny the man's influence on 21st century technology.

[Luis Dias]

RIP Steve



http://www.apple.com/stevejobs/

[Mars]

Steve Jobs - innovator, inventor, and the first guy to figure out that you can slap a designer label on ANYTHING.

[Pred the Penguin]

Just got the news... Really kinda speechless.
Though I am wondering what this means for Apple.

[Mr. Vega]

Well, he was an amazing marketer.

[Dilmah G]

Top bloke. Guess I will end up getting that iPhone.

[Bobboau]

I'm so not elated by this.

totally not the absolute best news I could have heard before going to sleep.
I'm totally not going to have to play it cool tomorrow around all the apple fan-boys I work with.

[Mongoose]

And that's a warning.  Don't be a dick in here.

I was no personal fan of Apple products myself, but the guy was way ahead of his time and many regards.  Plus, he was responsible for Pixar's existence.

[Bobboau]

In regards of single-handedly turning the IT industry into a patent war ****hole while pandering sub-par products in a flashy case, yeah, I agree way ahead of his time.
No I refuse to morn. I refuse to pretend he wasn't of the most vile **** peddlers on the earth. I work in the IT industry and Apple is sparring no expense in trying to turn everything into a proprietary lock in, trying to destroy the free and open ecosystem, look at what they did with HTML5 video, look at what they are doing now with Samsung.
The man was my personal Osama bin Laden.
Don't give me that pandering PC bull**** and don't be the ****ing thought police.
if he didn't earn my hatred he wouldn't have it.

[Sushi]

Stay classy, Bobboau.

[Mongoose]

Aaaand you're warned even more.  I'm sure an admin would be happy to give you a bit of time off, if that's what you want.

[Bobboau]

I had nothing else to say on this subject until you decided you didn't like my attitude toward The Emperor.

[Klaustrophobia]

i don't get why everyone's making such a big deal out of him dying.  i thought everyone was supposed to hate greedy corperations and CEOs these days?

[Nuke]

id be happy to split out bobboau's anti-apple sentiments, unfortunately i happen to agree with them. and while i do own an ancient 5th gen ipod which miraculously still runs, it will never again run the apple firmware (which is probably why it still runs). reguardless this thread is about the man and not the crap his company produces, so bash the hardware in a different thread.

[Zacam]

Actually, this Administrator was more than happy to reverse the warnings levied against Bob.

I don't see him having been a dick, but I did see you be a dick in asking him to not be one. A PM or something would have been far more responsible a solution.

His posts stand. That is, unless the OP (Black Wolf) who is also a Global Moderator happens to have something to say about activity in his own thread.

[karajorma]

Still there is a certain something to be said for showing some respect for the dead. Even if like me you think that Jobs like Gates were better salemen than innovators.

[Mongoose]

I don't care if people hated the guy's products, or policies, or turtlenecks, or whatever.  But in a thread seemingly dedicated to noting his contributions to the industry and society, expressing open glee at his passing seems grossly inappropriate, at least to me.

[Zacam]

I can respect the fact that Pancreatic Cancer is not a fun way to go. And that Jobs had some significant cajones to pull of surviving with it for 7 years and still making business happen all the way up until August of this year when he officially stepped down.

No matter the personal opinion of his practices, products, speeches or thoughts, he was living KNOWING more so than any of the rest of us that he was on borrowed time and he held his head up and RAN **** for 7 years.

Also, one must not be confused with Apple decisions being Steve Jobs decisions. He may have been the founder, but the higher you go, surprisingly, there is more to answer for and to and the only way to answer to most of it is by making a profit. And there were many years where he wasn't at the helm that saw a lot of changes to Apple as a whole, but the consistent thing that kept Apple running was Jobs.

Also, I can't think of a single legitimate IT department that actually concerns itself with Apple products in any department, other than perhaps at Pixar.

Not an Apple fan, not an owner of any Apple Products, not a fan of the Apple OS/iOS ... But still. I can salute that he held **** together probably far better than I would have in his condition.

[JCDNWarrior]

I can't say I really liked Steve Jobs, I know some of his history, working in IT industry as well having a lot of contact with Apple (and customer experiences with Apple) but it's typical and kinda a shame that life extension technology and all the other methods didn't help to keep him alive. Given the kind of stuff we have, if I was Steve Jobs (with a mindset of a billionaire)  I would even go cyborg if need be to stay alive.

In that regards it's tragic, in his actions as the Apple CEO however, his death will not make such decisions better.

[newman]

You don't have to like Apple or Steve Jobs in particular. Hell, I never owned a Mac and probably never will. Respect for the dead, or if that's too much to ask at least being silent about it, has nothing to do with one's opinion on Apple and everything to do with maintaining a minimum level of civilized behavior. Openly celebrating the man dying of pancreatic cancer is infantile and tasteless at best. The man wasn't a war criminal or a terrorist. Don't have anything nice to say about him after him dying from a nasty illness? No problem, just move on.