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Originally posted by Geezer:
I wonder if the Occupy Wall Street folks are Tweeting their joy at the death of a corporate one-percenter on their iPhones.

"Keep the Shiny side up"

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Originally posted by Geezer:
I wonder if the Occupy Wall Street folks are Tweeting their joy at the death of a corporate one-percenter on their iPhones.

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Originally posted by Geezer:
I wonder if the Occupy Wall Street folks are Tweeting their joy at the death of a corporate one-percenter on their iPhones.

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Originally posted by dreamtrove:

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Originally posted by Geezer:
I wonder if the Occupy Wall Street folks are Tweeting their joy at the death of a corporate one-percenter on their iPhones.

"Keep the Shiny side up"

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Oh, I knew someone could politicize it.

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Originally posted by Niki2:
I've long since ceased being able to afford a Mac

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Originally posted by Hero:
And why isn't he frozen somewhere waiting for a cure like Walk Disney is?

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Originally posted by Niki2:
Yeah, just about anything and everything posted here will be turned into partisan idiocy. I wish this weren't. I cried when I heard, for many, many reasons. End of an era, for one; the concept that anyone will come around as inventive as him any time in the near future is slim, in my estimation. Makes me feel old, too...the first Mac I worked on was one of those cute little boxy things we got as a side note to a merger in the law firm where I worked; hubby and I turned it into an entire department (and the company upgraded of course, after they saw the potential) and did wonderful things with them. I could afford to have one back then and adored it.

Jobs was one of the few people who ever created things we didn't even know we wanted, and many couldn't imagine being WITHOUT them once they had them. That's unusual. I was hearing the news stories on several stations last night, and I agree with them; they put him up there with Ford, Bell, Franklin and others for first making something available to the public which changed society in a major way. I agree.

My husband just got an iPad, and has been all but giddy (which is virtually unheard of for him) as he discovers all the neat things it can do. Jobs was the first to conceive of the idea of computers in the home, something everyone else rejected as absurd at the time.

As to "giving back", by the way, for those who like to argue that the rich have nothing for which they "owe" society,

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Apple was the biggest contributor for the (Product) Red fund-raising brand to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, giving tens of millions of dollars.

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He's no Bill Gates, but he did his share.

Another reason for sadness for me is, while I've long since ceased being able to afford a Mac, I've always loved them (in many ways they made my job as desktop publisher possible). I'm not sure what the future holds for Apple now, and I'd hate to see it go under as it almost did before without him.

Then I found out he was the first to come up with the concept of "fonts", and I cried again. That hits me personally, as I've got a love affair with fonts, and have ever since that first little Mac, which freed me from the bloody green-on-black Courier.

Rarely has one individiaul been not only so closely tied with his company's products, but been so personally involved in every damned one of them, even after making his millions and becoming the head of a huge corporation.

I grew up with Jobs, so for me, yes, it is the end of an era. And a sad day; the world has lost something it may never see again, especially as American innovation seems to be on the wane.


Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
signing off

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Originally posted by Geezer:
I wonder if the Occupy Wall Street folks are Tweeting their joy at the death of a corporate one-percenter on their iPhones.

"Keep the Shiny side up"

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Originally posted by Storymark:

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Originally posted by Geezer:
I wonder if the Occupy Wall Street folks are Tweeting their joy at the death of a corporate one-percenter on their iPhones.

"Keep the Shiny side up"

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Bravo. Just never can pass up the op to be a douche, can ya?

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