I will refrain from my usual anti-apple ranting, it is sad to hear of someone going before their time. Closer to my heart though;

R.I.P. Graham Dilley

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011...am-dilley-dies

R.I.P. to the other 100K folks who died yesterday also.

Never knew the bloke but felt sad today.. Always a terrible waste for someone like this to go so young!

I've just learnt that Tim Berners Lee invented and coded the WWW on a Next computer. Another "small" contribution to the world as we know it.

It's frankly shocking how some people have no sense of respect and need to hijack a serious thread with their agendas..

I really think it's true when they say the internet takes the worst out of us :-(

21,000 Children died all over the world that day, as they did today, and as they will tomorrow. But they didn't use near-slave labour to build mp3 players, so who cares about them.

A RICH WHITE MAN DIED! Everyone stop what they are doing and feel sad!

Good riddance....its amazing the sympathy this guy gets for running a business where slave labor is used, in fact conditions are so appealing there is a problem with suicides at apple factories....while at the same time lecturing us about making sacrifices for the environment and the poor...what a joke and a hypocrite....

so our adgenda is exposing those who use slave labor....which apparently according to you a bad thing...but steve job's agenda which was to use slave labor for his own gain, well thats just good and worthy of praise....typical hypocrite...o no somoene dies now we must automatically be all sad and ignore every immoral or bad thing they have ever done, in the name of being POLITICALLY CORRECT no thanks sorry im not a brainwashed fool....o steve job made me cheap plastic crap, i must worship him and overlook all the bad things he has done....

live every day like its your last....

just wish i could afford to... but he's right...

the guy had balls... no question...

I'm sorry guys, but your home-made morality is is laughable.

Don't you buy stuff made by the same poor slaves you mentioned, in fact feeding that industry?

Steve Jobs was a true innovator, a genius that introduced a new approach to IT that others copied but struggled to deliver. He was also a human being, so surely he wasn't perfect, but his visionary approach inspired a technology leap that can't be dismissed as "little toys", people that do that are like the bigots who laughed at Montgolfier or Wright brothers.

If you understand this then you understand what his loss means, otherwise there's really no point. Whichever the case, have some respect and go post somewhere else.

I must disagree here. There is not one technological idea or gui system created by apple that can claim to be original. They copied others in the first place. Steve Jobbs primary skill was marketeering, not 'innovation' as you put it. When Bill Gates goes, people will have real reason to be sympathetic, particularly certain charities etc... So sad as it is when anyone passes before their time, what was so great about this man? the fact that he managed to create an elitist market for plums who pay the ridiculous inflated price believing they have something better or more original than any other equatable competing product, because they paid 3 times as much for it? Very clever yes, admirable, I don't think so.