Steve Jobs just passed away.

[senseispcc]

A man dies and it is terrible.
A million dies and we do not care!

A stupid gadget is more important than people loosing their home ore their jobs?

This is not the place to discus this or to pay tribute to this man good or bad.

[addman]

Feel sorry for his family. On the other hand, why were there no mention of all those Chinese factory workers at Foxconn (component supplier for Apple) who were driven to suicide thanks to the awful working conditions? Guess some people are more important than others....

[Sternjaeger II]

Originally Posted by senseispcc

A man dies and it is terrible.
A million dies and we do not care!

A stupid gadget is more important than people loosing their home ore their jobs?

This is not the place to discus this or to pay tribute to this man good or bad.

"A stupid gadget"? I'm afraid your view on the innovation introduced by Apple in the last 10 years is very narrow.

Having said this, your rethoric of "one man vs million men" is a bit out of place for an obituary thread, don't you think?

As for the place, I agree, I started a thread in the Off Topic section, but please, let's have some respect.

[gflinch]

I find it interesting that there is a thread about Steve Jobs passing, to me it shows just how many people respected what he had accomplished.

Sternjaeger:
This was a nice thread to start, but I think you should have known this was just going to be another flame war on this forum. Very little respect is shown to anyone here, living or dead.

-- posting this from my mac.

RIP Steve Jobs & Bert Jansch.

[pupo162]

If he had any sense of humor, his grave would say iDied.

he left a mark on earth, and will be remenber long gone. RIP.

Well I guess you can jump the organ transplant line and "Buy" a liver, but not so with a pancreas. Even money has its limitations. Horrible disease, and horrible way to die, but not getting any adoration from me, or at least any more sympathy than anyone else who has passed away.

He made popular electronics for people who enjoy overspending.

[Catseye]

This news has made me very sad! In a great part Steve's inventive genius provided me with the best time of my working life and a good income.

[Insuber]

Originally Posted by speculum jockey

Well I guess you can jump the organ transplant line and "Buy" a liver, but not so with a pancreas. Even money has its limitations. Horrible disease, and horrible way to die, but not getting any adoration from me, or at least any more sympathy than anyone else who has passed away.

He made popular electronics for people who enjoy overspending.

Bullpoop, my friend. He made my wife, not comfortable at all with PC's, browsing the news on the internet and reading emails for the first time. Now she never quits her iPad.

- A great entrepreneur and innovator -

Actually I never liked much the philosophy behind the iGadget things as it is definitely a completely closed universe and not open (one reason why I don't have anything with the fruit logo on it). But one has to recognize a genious in his domain and for me iSteve was surely one. So hats off and tribute to an innovative and creative spirit now gone and gone with him other great ideas that he might have had had he just lived longer.

PS: I just love the proposal of grave tomb inscription "iDied". I am sure Jobs would have loved that too.