R.I.P. Steve Jobs

[crazy canuck]

That is why people originally bought them in the early 1980's.  Still, most people didn't do a lot of writing or number crunching in their personal lives.  They payed bills, balanced a checkbook, and did their taxes, but that was the jist of it.

Raz, I am not sure what your point is.  People bought these machines expressly to do writing and number crunching. If people didnt need to do writing or number crunching they didnt buy a computer until games and other apps became available.

[Razgovory]

That is why people originally bought them in the early 1980's.  Still, most people didn't do a lot of writing or number crunching in their personal lives.  They payed bills, balanced a checkbook, and did their taxes, but that was the jist of it.

Raz, I am not sure what your point is.  People bought these machines expressly to do writing and number crunching. If people didnt need to do writing or number crunching they didnt buy a computer until games and other apps became available.

Yeah, that's my point.  Most people didn't need to do that much in their personal life which was one of the reasons why home computing didn't take off until the later part of the decade.  There is limited demand for that sort of thing outside a business or home office.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

mh, does this mean that Apple's next product will be the iCoffin? Might be a thing with the current vampire-hype thingy.

anyways:

RIP
Halfway the 50s is to young to go for most anyone.

[Monoriu]

I think Bill Gates has done a lot more for humanity than Steve Jobs.  Surely more people use Windows, Office and IE, than the number of people who use Macs, iphone, ipad and ipods?  ipad is a nice to have; Windows is indispensable. 

[grumbler]

I think Bill Gates has done a lot more for humanity than Steve Jobs.  Surely more people use Windows, Office and IE, than the number of people who use Macs, iphone, ipad and ipods?  ipad is a nice to have; Windows is indispensable.

It may be true that more people use Microstiff products than Apple products, but Jobs was Apple a lot more than Gates is Microstiff.

[Barrister]

I think Bill Gates has done a lot more for humanity than Steve Jobs.  Surely more people use Windows, Office and IE, than the number of people who use Macs, iphone, ipad and ipods?  ipad is a nice to have; Windows is indispensable.

You're probably right that Gates has done for for humanity, but I'd be thinking more along the lines of the Gates Foundation.

[Caliga]

Ok, I'm starting to hate Steve Jobs now.

[DGuller]

Ok, I'm starting to hate Steve Jobs now.

The guy changed humanity forever.  Have a little respect. 

[Gups]

That is why people originally bought them in the early 1980's.  Still, most people didn't do a lot of writing or number crunching in their personal lives.  They payed bills, balanced a checkbook, and did their taxes, but that was the jist of it.

Raz, I am not sure what your point is.  People bought these machines expressly to do writing and number crunching. If people didnt need to do writing or number crunching they didnt buy a computer until games and other apps became available.

Yeah, that's my point.  Most people didn't need to do that much in their personal life which was one of the reasons why home computing didn't take off until the later part of the decade.  There is limited demand for that sort of thing outside a business or home office.

There were loads of people buying computers in the early & mid 1980s. Spectrum, Vic 20, Commodore 64, Acorn, Dragon etc. They weren't all that good and they were hugely expensive by today's standards but they sold well. I think they were mainly used for games and because people thought they'd give their kids a headstart.

[Monoriu]

My parents sent to me computer classes in the early 80s. 

Mother: What did they teach you in the past 3 months?

Me: I learned the commands to draw a square. 

Mother: And?

Me: A pentagon. 

Mother: What else can that machine do?

Me: Play games.

Mother: I think you've learned enough. 

[Neil]

Ok, I'm starting to hate Steve Jobs now.

No kidding.  Between him and Breast Cancer Month, I'm annoyed with the media.

[MadBurgerMaker]

Apparently in the second one, people just left those ipads and iphones there, so if you want one, maybe cruise by the Apple store and see if any hipsters dropped some off. "Thanks Steve!"

[Brazen]

Death is life's best invention

"No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."


Full transcript here.

[Barrister]

I actually watched that video the night he died.  For such a polished salesman he was stiff in his delivery, but very nice speech.  That must be why people keep cribbing from it when talking about his death.

[szmik]

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Apparently in the second one, people just left those ipads and iphones there, so if you want one, maybe cruise by the Apple store and see if any hipsters dropped some off. "Thanks Steve!"

People are stupid. And Steve was genius with all lemmings following his products.