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Wednesday 05 Oct 2011

Icacked

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1. on 06 Oct 2011 at 12:10 am   Jim
   
   

   I stole this outright from a comment thread at Ace of Spades. This seems like a good place to post it.

   175 When Reagan was president we had Johnny Cash, Bob Hope, and Steve Jobs. In Obama’s America, no Cash, no Hope, and no Jobs

   Posted by: Crashpanic at October 05, 2011 09:42 PM (7eKJh).

   Now, it’ ain’t 0bama’s fault that Jobs finally experienced the MS-BSOD, but it’s still somehow, fitting.

   Jim
   Sunk New Dawn
   Galveston, TX

2. on 06 Oct 2011 at 7:20 am   Dave
   
   

   Steve Jobs changed the world for good. The only Apple product I have owned is an iPod Nano, but there are others I have lusted after.

3. on 06 Oct 2011 at 8:53 am   Nathan
   
   

   I think Jobs did more good than bad in driving the market to improve, and I further believe that Larry Ellison is probably more Luciferesque in his little finger than Jobs ever was in his entire body. Oracle is a much more dangerous company than Apple ever was or will be.

   I suspect that Apple will not be the same company without Jobs. The dynamo that powered things is suddenly gone, and we know how well that worked out the first time he retired.

4. on 06 Oct 2011 at 9:38 am   Og
   
   

   I’m a big fan of technology, just not for myself. Most of what Jobs did was market other peoples ideas more effectively. Good on him; people compare him to Edison, and it’s an apt comparison- Edison hardly ever did anything himself either, he just made it commercially. There will be others like him, for sure, but the odds are they’ll come from india or China, the next time around. The climate for entrepreneurship here is starting to stifle.

5. on 06 Oct 2011 at 9:39 am   Rivrdog
   
   

   Something strange happened at Apple just before Jobs’ death announcement.

   For weeks, rumors had been escaping from their rumor mill that the totally-new I-fone 5 was coming out, but just as Jobs was drawing his last breath, what did they release? An I-fone 4 with upgrades.

   My guess: Apple has figgered out that they might take a hit in stockholder confidence with Jobs gone, so they want to reserve the latest and greatest equipment release to pump the stock back up if such a fall-off happens, we’ll know shortly…

   Other thing. Not nice to say bad things about the man at this moment, but he DID, after all, build his company on the backs of the educational establishment, into which he dumped thousands of Apple computers at cost and below. Had MS tried that, they would have been crucified by the market AND the various governments, but somehow, probably because of his world-view, Jobs got away with it.

   Historical note: Jobs probably stole this idea of getting to the kiddies with his idea of a computer from Mary Hanchett Hunt, who did it with the idea of Prohibition sixty years earlier.

6. on 06 Oct 2011 at 1:41 pm   Og
   
   

   Not to mention using the GUI concept from Xerox PARC, the MP3 player from Audio Highway, the solid state memory from NASA, etc.

   Good for him for being a capitalist. Pity the people who are the consumers of all his products think capitalism is such a bore. Morons.

7. on 06 Oct 2011 at 5:26 pm   Ed Bonderenka
   
   

   I heard Obama would kill Jobs.
   Does he have an alibi?

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