Steve Jobs - Now counting his days [News]

@fatbat: Can you read ? I said He/Apple didnt inovate, in any way. They took all pre existing technology and put them together, like Blizzard, to make a polished product. Nobody argued about that, they are super good at it, but multi-touch, touch screen and all of what make their product existed before the "Apple revelation".

They are "just" super good/efficient at it, the same way Blizzard "revolutionned" the RPG genre.

But its not innovation, mashing up and creating/innovating isnt the same.

@jizzlober: Gogo challenge yourself to xss/flash0day/crsf/clickjacking and Bacon tracking, you smart tech savy affiliate marketter.
 


LOL so even though there are countless opportunities to shit on apple fans and products every day, both online and offline, you retards pick the one thread that isn't about apple (it's about a man dying of cancer) to voice your opinion?

wake the fuck up, no one likes the hipsters with the lattes and the macbooks writing movie scripts. in addition, this is a forum of internet marketers, who purportedly all generate real revenue with the tools they use. no lattes and pilates here.

"who has the most innovative products? which phone is the best?" < who the fuck cares? pick whatever works for you.

as for trying to shit on someone who is near death - stay classy.
 
Unarmed Gunman said:
Exactly. It's the same thing that makes people stand outside for an hour to get into a club just because there is a line, or pay $200 for a pair of jeans that look and feel the same as a $40 pair, etc.

As a marketer - I love what they're able to do with their brand, but I have zero respect for their fan boys. I own an iPod for the car, and it does the job. I played with the iPad for awhile and realized it might be the stupidest thing I'd ever used. But their restrictive ass software, nazi-like closed system mentality and overall pretentious user base makes me want to punch babies in the face.
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Pretty much exactly how I view Apple.
 
I really doubt it is him as I just don't see him waltzing in through the front door and leaving in the same manner considering how secretive he is about his health.

I can only imagine how it must feel for him to be so successful yet have this monkey on his back yet again. What excuse do you have not to succeed online now?
 
I am trying to keep out of this thread and STS, which is like forum crack to me. But I can't let pass the charge that SJ lacks vision or originality. You guys are shortsighted, thinking only of the latest marginal gizmos Apple happens to be pushing in your face at the moment. Okay, I agree the iPad is kind of lame despite the homoerotic love given it in the press. The iPhone 4, who cares? I agree Macbooks are overpriced, etc.

Backtrack a few decades and take another look at the Apple 2. This weak ugly computer was the first mass produced PC in people's homes. Jobs and Wozniak were the first to pioneer the concept that computers belong not just in cold rooms or in executive offices. They can and should be owned by the masses for personal use. Before that, you had mainframe computers that filled up a whole room and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Dedicated word processing workstations, only seen in offices, cost tens of thousands of dollars.

Zip ahead a few years when Steve pioneered the Macintosh, the first computer with a GUI interface available as a commercial product. I understand the mouse idea was developed by Xerox PARC laboratories, invented by Douglas Engelbart in 1972. I realize the graphical user interface was not unique to the Lisa and her big brother Macintosh. But Steve recognized the genius to the crude interface pioneered by PARC, improved it and packaged it for home computers. After Apple made the GUI beautiful and accessible, Microsoft copied it.

Ditto, many follow up innovations. Remember how Apple was the first to ditch the floppy drive in favor CD drives exclusively? They pioneered the ubiquitous usage of USB when it was hardly being used. Remember how computers were almost all beige before the iMac came out? Now we demand and expect color and beauty from our home computers and peripherals. Apple reinvented industrial design, per Steve's demands computers be beautiful as well as functional.

The list goes on and on and on, but I haven't the time or inclination to name all the ways Apple has changed the technology business. Let's just say that cumulatively Steve Jobs has made one of the biggest contributions to technology in the history of the business. He is truly one of the titans of technology, whether you like the guy or not. And we owe him a lot for advancing many technologies that make affiliate marketing possible.

That's enough from me. Go ahead, flame away.
 
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dieze said:
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5258/5455525432_cc815d76f8_o.jpg

Pic from the meeting at the White House.

He was always thin but on this pic its kinda worse, even from backside :/

ps: fucking zuckerberg, I do really hope HE gets cancer.
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Anyone know much about body language regarding hands? Look at this left hand and thumb.. bit strange? Uncomfortable or something?

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Currently dating someone who over came cancer as a child, and from what she told me, it is nothing to wish upon anyone. I've never thought about it this much until I met her, and every other day I think about it coming back and ruining her once again. I really hope that money can buy the cure to cancer in Job's case, wish him the best.
 
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6xt8Xm2sk4]YouTube - Steve Jobs' Cancer - Dying Soon?[/ame]
 
I can't say I'm too bothered because I don't know him. I don't rest on his every word and although an Apple user I only own an MB, because Windows post XP made me want to rape myself, not because I love teh Apple.

This is a marketing forum, apparently populated, in the most part, by adults. Were it not for the way he and his products polarise opinion, we would be discussing his genius in ways similar to Ogilvy. We can learn alot from him and his company's premium image, which in turn enables pricing models unfamiliar to the markets he enters.

I won't mourn his death, but I think to be dismissive about him, soon to die or not, is little more than belligerence and small minded ignorance in the face of much to the contrary.

dieze said:
Steve jobs is a visionary as much as Steve Ballmer, but nice try.
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Let me guess, Steve Balmer's invented the Zune, Windows 7's snap "feature" and the ground breaking MSN Explorer? :)

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvsboPUjrGc]YouTube - Steve Ballmer going crazy[/ame]
 
conv3rsion said:
Who exactly did they steal the iphone or the ipad from? Or the fucking ipod for that matter.
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Really? Mp3 players were around for years prior to the iPod. Apple just did a marginally better job at building iTunes so that tards could buy DRM'd songs that they couldn't do anything with but play on their iPods, also ensuring that said tards had to use iTunes to get songs on their iPods.

The patents have been around for literaly 100 years for a tablet. The first commercially produced one debuted in 1998 and ran on MSDOS and included handwriting recognition. Tablet personal computer

The concept of multitouch screens with gestures for zoom and flipping pages was published in a whitepaper in 1991 by Pierre Wellner. A company called fingerworks directly ripped off this whitepaper and developed the screens and gesture system that apple bought and dumped into the iPhone and iPad almost 10 years later.

Virtually all apples products, including the iPod, iPad, and iPhone run on unix OS.

Anyone else care to take a stab?
 
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