RIP Steve Jobs

Apparently thee some Steve Jobs movie on TNT right now.

Pirates of Silicon Valley? The one with Noah Wyle?

Yup.

I've watched too much The Librarian. I'll keep expecting Steve Jobs to spontaneously whip out a fencing sword and duel Bill Gates.

What the hell is this and where can I watch it?

That would be the best tribute... ever

Looks like the people at Apple are now Jobsless!

YEAAAAAAAAHH!!!!

edited 7th Oct '11 10:25:42 AM by dontcallmewave

what.

I don't know, I thought it was rather Appt.

edited 7th Oct '11 1:20:50 PM by Newfable

I know for sure who's not going to mourn Jobs... Devs for smartphone apps, who got extorted 30% by apple for the privilege of deploying code on their platform.

Really? Paying to use Apple's services so that you can work on something that they invented and marketed? I'm sure when I next talk to a computer science grad-student or post-doc using app development to supplement their income they'll go "Grr, bloody Steve Jobs, making it possible to me to earn extra money."

Developers used to be able to sell software for most platforms without getting extorted by the hardware manufacturer and without being subject to their censorship. You wrote code, it compiled, you shipped it and sold it. The hardware manufacturer had already been paid when he sold the hardware.

Not so anymore: Now you've got to give the hardware manufacturer a 30% cut, and other manufacturers are following suit (there's risk of Microsoft going the App Store way with Windows 8 systems, turning the personal computer field into a series of corporate walled gardens).

If that was Jobs' vision, good riddance to the visionary.

....You do realize prior to the app store, there was really NO venue for anyone to just randomly dev a program and be expected to make any money for it without an advertising blitz, right?

Its not like Indie dev is the most profitable pr0ofession otherwise.

Barriers to innovation is a problem everywhere, though, not just in the computer industry. If anything they're minor offenders by comparison. Everybody wants their cut, as you say.

This is saddening and hilarious at the same time◊

EDIT: Old news, it seems.

edited 7th Oct '11 3:16:30 PM by Solstace

Knew they'd choose to picket it for "he didnt use his fame to teach jesus!"

A TRUE Moment Killer just when we were honoring Steve Jobs' life! Why won't they let Steve rest in peace?

I just take it as another credit to the guy that you can't even disgrace his funeral without using one of his product.

Well, it is reported that Steve Jobs' funeral would be private today. So, tough luck for these freaks then.

http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/news-technology/20111007/US.Steve.Jobs.Funeral/

His friends and relatives were Genre Savvy about Westboro and planned this.I also think to take extra precautions they should hire some bouncers.

According to this, he's dead largely because of "alternative medicine".

Jobs' final words.

Too bad we'll never know what they mean...

Though I speculate that if we did, we would know a lot more about the nature of the universe than we do now...

edited 31st Oct '11 5:37:30 PM by Wackd

Or even because he wasn't Christian at all, but Zen Buddhist. It may of caused his genius (Zen that is).

either way, theyre idiots.