Valshistixol
[H]ard|Gawd
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Sorry I don't like someone who was a complete asshole to everyone he knew and who's goal was to take computing back 10 years.
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Sorry I don't like someone who was a complete asshole to everyone he knew and who's goal was to take computing back 10 years.
It would at least stop some chinese working themselves to death.
It's not just Apple. Everything around you is made in China nowadays. Those same people are working the same harsh conditions. You most likely have a ton in your household and is not aware of it.
I have no idea how Steve Job's goal was to take computing back ten years, but feel free to explain your theory, or to back it up with facts.
H doesn't disappoint when it comes to haters.
It's not just Apple. Everything around you is made in China nowadays. Those same people are working the same harsh conditions. You most likely have a ton in your household and is not aware of it.
You stay classy, [H]...
There's a loophole for that too:H allows you to hate as long as you do it with respect and you don't go on a personal attack to another forum member.
There would be no touchpad or $99 touchpad if not for Mr Jobs. The whole tech industry will suffer without a strong Apple. I hope his health returns 100%.
There's a loophole for that too:
But in a short while there will be NO Touchpads period because of Apple.
Apple did not force HP to release it late, buggy, chunky while having a Enterprise software CEO in place that wanted out of the Hardware market and used the TouchPad as the scapegoat
That still doesn't change the fact that in large part because of Apple that there will be no more Touchpads. Of course had the Touchpad been better it would have had a better chance, but competition is competition and HP simply lost the competition to Apple. Pretty obvious.
The lack of human compassion is absolutely appalling. I'm sure if someone you knew was in bad, and possibly dying, you wouldn't be elated and wished them good-f****ing-bye. He's a person with a family for crying out loud.
Besides that he's amounted to more than everyone here put together. You may hate Apple but Jobs is a business genius and if you disagree you're lying to yourself.
But most importantly it really saddens me to see such indifference to a fellow human being. It's sick really.
depends on what you define successful as. If you mean making lots of money getting people to believe having an apple product equals success, without said people realizing they are buying year old hardware with software designed for simpletons, then he was most definitely a success.
If I were Apple I would have never told anyone about him resigning. I would have just kept him on in spirit anyway, and let cook run eveything...
Am sure that most people here know all about the famous "1984" commercial from Apple. If you don't, then go watch it; I'll even help you. So what's the message? More or less "Screw the man! Leave the walled garden!", right? Be your own person? Think different? And so on? Now fast forward to today. Can you see the irony? Today Apple very much wants you to think their way, and nothing but THEIR way. They want their users to stay inside the walled garden of Apple, to do as they're told and to not ask questions. In other words, don't screw the man. Be good sheep and follow your leader without question. How times have changed.
I honestly don't care about Mr. Jobs health issues and I doubt he cares about anyone else's beyond his immediate circle. If he lives, he lives. If he dies, he dies. Honestly, when did we become so wrapped up in the affairs of others? Mr. Jobs doesn't give a rats ass about any of you; why should you do any differently?
Come on. I don't like the company, nor do I really like the man; but so many people are acting like he's dead already! He's stepped down as CEO. Big deal. He's still the Chairman of the Board. Last I checked that's a rather powerful position to hold in any major company. He hasn't GONE anywhere... but to look at the state of so many misguided Apple sheep you'd think he was already buried in the ground. And so many Apple zealots wonder why many of us think of Apple as the next closest thing to a cult?
Time for a little history lesson here. Steve Jobs was fired from Apple (or rather he quit to avoid being fired) in 1985. Combination of failing to win an internal power struggle and a generally unhappy board. People seem to forget this. He was brought back in 1997, but it wasn't until a certain someone from a certain company invested $150 million into Apple that it started to turn around. Yes, that would be August 6, 1997 when Bill Gates appeared over Steve head like the Wizard of freaking Oz. Now there were a LOT of anti-trust rumblings happening against Microsoft, and who knows exactly why old "Uncle" Bill decided to spend that $150M on Apple; but he did. As a result of this, or perhaps in spite of this (go watch the video from that announcement... the faithful were not amused) Apple got their crap together and prospered. The hard core Apple faithful will spin it differently; but like it or not, if it weren't for the influx of that cash, Apple more than likely would've gone down the tubes.
Competition is a good thing. We need it. If it weren't for competition we simply wouldn't have a LOT of what we take for granted today. But for people to play off Steve Jobs as the be all - end all of Apple is, quite simply, wrong.
Steve Jobs was Apple... and without him, the company will fall back into the obscurity it deserves. Thanks for all the inventions and innovations in technology. For everything you've accomplished, it will always be underscored by your fanboys and smug commercials marketing your products to those who weren't smart enough to use other technologies.