Steve Jobs has quit Apple.

And is being replaced by Tim Cook.

I don't see why I should care. I go to Apple for an iPod, and that's it. I despise them, otherwise...

I am now known as Flyboy.

Apple stocks have tended to go up and down depending on Steve Jobs' (perceived) health. Dunno what this'll do.

Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am...

Hmm...let's see how this affects Apple...

I heard there's some effects when Ballmer replaced Gates at Microsoft...

Give me cute or give me...something?

He's still remaining as part of the board, so this isn't as severe an announcement as first seems.

They never travel alone.

damnit that was offtopic, wasn't it.

edited 24th Aug '11 7:39:41 PM by deathjavu

Look, you can't make me speak in a logical, coherent, intelligent bananna.

So it doesn't change that much of a thing.

Microsoft is still doing fine after Gates. Can't see why Apple can't do the same.

edited 24th Aug '11 8:29:00 PM by MalagasyParrot

Wow. I completely forgot that Gates left. That how much Microsoft wasn't affected.

Well, there's the thing about Jobs being a very heavy drive in the company, plus, Gates' transition is gradual since 2000...

Give me cute or give me...something?

Good.

Seeing people idolized in the way Jobs sometimes is sickens me, hopefully he can get out of the sights of the world's obsessive Apple fanboy population and somewhere where constant expectations aren't heaped upon him.

I spread my wings and I learn how to fly....

I use Apple products and I don't Idolise Steve Jobs.

Because that honour is already taken by Osamu Tezuka and Daido Moriyama respectively. Steve Jobs may have redefined the meaning of "music box" and made my fantasies of having an electric device that has all my music in it when I was 9 and only had my dad's discman come true, but unless he re-invents comics and animation through the lens of an emerging post war culture, or becomes emblematic of an entirely new movement of street photography, all Steve Jobs is to me is a guy I complain about when he keeps replacing the iPad and iPhone with new models every time I wonder if I want to buy one. Which makes it difficult for me to buy one because it makes me want to put it off for longer and buy other things I might need more (or less).

Steve Jobs is no more a God of Apple than Osamu Tezuka is a supposed God of Manga, and in the same sense, neither of them explicitly invented the mediums that made them famous, but they made the format in which they made their fortunes in more popular with a new audience than they were before. That and Osamu Tezuka is a badass for surviving as long as he did considering his PSTD he must have had from the war era, publishing an obscene amount of Japanese comics in his lifetime, and generally being a better role model for humanity with his environmental messages, peace activism, and counter-culture cool that was earned rather than faked by an old man who thought he'd go the way of Disney once hipper, younger creators turned up on the scene.

A bit more easy to look up to Tezuka than a guy directly responsible for a generation of young men who think my Blackberry is lame and have the money to replace their iPhones whenever they want while poor fanboys of more than just technological branding struggle to purchase the resources I need for my art/creative interests.

Yeah, Steve Jobs I could do without idolising. It's just that I value the efforts of artists who didn't need to acquire millions of dollars to make your self esteem feel low if you didn't own their products more since I'm pretty sure guys like Daido Moriyama appreciate the money they get from fans of their work far more than what I imagine Apple thinks of their customers.

Hell Hasn't Earned My Tears

Apple stock has gone down about 5%, so far. It'll probably just bounce right back up again in a few days once this is old news.

Then obviously, I was not talking about you.

I spread my wings and I learn how to fly....

Despite my distaste for the manner in which Apple has (d)evolved under Jobs, I actually feel bad for him. He looked pretty terrible in most recent public appearance, and I suspect he will soon be in awfully excruciating pain, followed by an excruciating death.

I don't buy Apple products. Ever.

Not until the "hipster fag typing a novel in a starbucks on a macbook" stereotype is gone.

That and they aren't very pro-open source.

This is my problem with them.

This is also the understatement of the century.

This is also (incorrect definition of) ironic, considering that their early business model and advertising campaigns were all about customization, openness, etc. They made the predecessor of their current hipster image by being anti-microsoft, demonizing microsoft's anti-competitive practices. Remember "Think Different" from the 90's? What the hell happened to that? (oh yeah, Steve Jobs happened.)

Can you install OSX on a custom built box you make yourself? Until you can, I have 0 interest in paying 3 to 10 times the price on components for an OS.

This 2nd gen I-pod touch I have is going to be the first and last Apple product I ever buy. 3 years old, taken care of extremely well, headphone jack is dying, laggy and unresponsive, randomly closes applications, "hold" button is almost broken, "volume" buttons are completely broken, and the cord- which doesn't have the standard flexi-cable things every other cord has had for the last 20 years- is frayed on the ends where the flexible cable guard should be, and costs $20 to replace because only Apple produces and sells it.

Oh, and you can't get it fixed either. Pretty specifically designed not to be fixed- I've seen someone trying it, and just getting these things apart is a bitch and requires specialized tools.

Oh, and the App store is rigidly controlled. As is the OS. And until the supreme court ruled against them, the cell phone carrier.

Fuck you Apple. Fuck you and your consumer screwing ways, I'm getting an Android when this piece of shit finally dies.

edited 25th Aug '11 1:10:56 AM by deathjavu

Look, you can't make me speak in a logical, coherent, intelligent bananna.

Androids are almost as bad.

Of course, I am running an idiotically implemented custom OS called Cyanogen on mine, so perhaps i'm not the best judge of that.

I spread my wings and I learn how to fly....

I like my android.

Isn't this getting a bit off topic?

It's about Steve Jobs resigning from Apple, not "Apple sucks, and Android's better"...

edited 25th Aug '11 2:20:36 AM by Fuzy2K

You can not go to Utah again after you have eaten Utah and have not eaten.

Sounds like the words of someone with an iMac...

I've had a go with OSX, and my PC runs both Ubuntu and Windows 7.

Guess which two are pretty similar?

Ubuntu and OSX. OSX just is a fancier version of Linux with more flash at hundreds of pounds the price.

But that's a little off-topic.

If this is true, then that means the company will have to work a little differently. Jobs was the driving force of Apple, whereas Gates was just... there.

^ Well, before 2000 he's a pretty big drivig force, but unlike Apple the change is gradual, so later years before 2008 it's easy to think that he didn't do much, because he phased out most of his work to Ballmer already...

Actually, I heard you can...although the process is complex and not officially supported...one of the students in iPhone programming class that I took with him doesn't have a Mac (he's in Computer Engineering major, while all Computer Science major get a Mac that the university provided...)...he tried to install OSX, but after several tries, he failed, so he withdrew from the class...

edited 25th Aug '11 6:46:34 AM by onyhow

Give me cute or give me...something?

My uncle has a Dell Inspiron Netbook and he managed to get OSX installed.

Sadly, there's a bit of problem with keyboard mapping but he said he did it "as easily as you installed Ubuntu."

@Bakey: Are you running the Android OS or using n Android phone?

Isn't that rather unprincipled?

edited 25th Aug '11 8:49:54 AM by HiddenFacedMatt

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