Steve Jobs

We lost an important, influential person today. The entire tech industry would look completely different without him. At points like these, when such people die, we come away from our petty teams and companies, and drop our paper-tiger attacks against one another. A lull in the bashing waves of news and whrling winds of progress, the veils of who is part of which company dissapate, leaving us all to stand as humans, one and the same, acknowledging the loss of one of our leaders. We may love our companies and their products to the point where we vehementely defend them, and un-mercifully attack others. But every company is our own, every visionary humanity's, because we are not here for the companies, but the progress that comes from the work they do.



May Steve Jobs rest in peace. I miss him already.




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You don't know what paper tiger means. It means that you see another actor as acting tougher than it is and that if you push them they will cave. You can make a paper tiger attack.


Steve Jobs.
He wasn't that important. He isn't really relevant to the industry today.
He was just a touchstone for people stuck in the past. A pretty face for Apple that they could use the social currency value of to sell their product. Get over it, people. You didn't know him. Liking or owning Apple products has nothing to do with Steve Jobs as a person. Even if you accept Apple popularized Mp3 devices and the smartphone idea it wasn't Steve Jobs doing that. It was some development people. Yeah in the 80s he was kind of cutting edge. He and Gates were both presenting the same things. Apple just started selling you an image. "Artsy, hip, young, cool people use Apple." He wasn't an Einstein, he wasn't a savior. Its cool if you look up to him cause you know something about his life beyond the standard story and yo look up to his fulfillment of the American dream or you knew him. I'm sorry he died, but stfu.

Also that's Bill Gates. lolololol.

So the guy that made the iPad was so influential? Then why is it that most of the people who see this on the news will ask, "Who's Steve Jobs?"(and they will pronounce it Jobes)

Protip, Ipads are just skimmed down Tablets with some of the uses of a tablet removed to make way for "entertainment"

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Originally Posted by Souleater

So the guy that made the iPad was so influential? Then why is it that most of the people who see this on the news will ask, "Who's Steve Jobs?"(and they will pronounce it Jobes)

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An astonishing amount of people can't name who invented the telephone, light bulb, steam engine, motors, etc. That doesn't make them any less important. Steve Jobs had his hands all over the place. Apple products, modern day phone designs, Pixar movies, GUI, or any of the other countless things he's invented, popularized, or brought from the brink of bankruptcy have all changed the way we do things on a daily basis or made our lives better in some way. That you can't deny, he was a very influential person on modern day living.