[kj] OT: rip steve jobs

[bongo]

i saw his name around yesterday and had to ask the woman who he was...
i still refuse to buy anything with an "i" in front of it.





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On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 12:47 AM, Brendan Quinn <bq at soundgardener.co.nz>wrote:


> Can someone actually articulate what Jobs is supposed to have done that's

> worthy of adulation? I read that someone just compared him to Edison and

> Einstein? WTF?

>

> I don't see him donating most of his time and money to charity like Gates

> (who has drummed up several tens of billions more cash from other rich

> ppl),

> I do see Apple using Chinese slave labour in conditions so onerous that

> they

> have to install anti-suicide nets.

>

> Xerox Parc invented the GUI / mouse, M$ and Apple both ripped it off, for

> some reason Jobs was indignant that M$ used it too, like he'd actually

> invented it.

>

> Could he code, or design computers? I don't think so, Wozniak did the brain

> work didn't he? Compared to Bill Gates who was a child prodigy and the

> chief

> of technology at M$...

>

> Personality...he got kicked out of Apple because he alienated everyone by

> being a prick from what I understand.

>

> I really don't get the Apple cult.

>

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> On Oct 5, 2011, at 11:57 PM, fatpotanga <fatpotanga at gmail.com> wrote:

>

> > Love him or hate him, he made a hell of an impact

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