Steve Jobs, ex-president of apple has died

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Steve Jobs, the demanding visionary who understood before anyone else how deeply we would live our lives through our devices, has died at the age of 56, only weeks after resigning as chief executive of computer giant Apple Inc. for health reasons.

Jobs revitalized Apple by transforming smartphones, computers, and media players into objects of desire. He insisted the company put the human experience first, focusing on design as well as technological prowess. Fifteen years ago,Apple flirted with bankruptcy; today, it is one of the most successful companies on earth. Only oil titan Exxon Mobil Corp. is worth more.

“He taught all of us how to transform technology into magic,” said John Sculley, Apple’s chief executive in the mid-1980s, and the man who once had Jobs kicked out of the company he’d co-founded.

After he was ousted, Jobs endured a decade of exile. But the experience taught him lessons that would, once he returned, help him lead Apple to unimaginable heights of achievement.

“Steve’s big contribution to the computer industry was to take it away from the nerds and give it to the people,” said Bob Metcalfe, co-inventor of Ethernet networking technology and a professor at the University of Texas at Austin.

Jobs was born in San Francisco on February 24, 1955 to Syrian immigrant Abdulfattah John Jandali and Joanne Schieble, both graduate students at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

In an interview with the New York Post in August, Jandali, now 80 and vice president of a casino in Reno, Nev., said Schieble gave Jobs up for adoption because her father would not allow her to marry him...

Wow, that was... unexpected. Rest in Peace

Just beat me to it. I'm very sad, but I sort of expected it when he stepped down.

Rest in peace.

Dam... didn't see that coming. Should be interesting how Apple runs itself in the future.

That was unexpected.
No good. RIP

sad feeling ._.

I just read the press release. Unexpected...

R.I.P. Steve Jobs

iDead.

iDead.

iMortal

R.I.P.

(godddamn iNinjas)


Steve Jobs: "iDied"

Not unexpected, but still so sad.

R.I.P.

iReplaceable.
RIP Steve.

Really, mocking his death? I don't even own an Apple product and I find it in bad taste. iReplaceable (irreplaceable) and iMortal (immortal) are good ones though.



God bless his soul. Apple is going to have trouble finding someone as charismatic as Steve Jobs, but hopefully they can find someone that can keep the company staedily going.

I'll truly miss him.

Really, mocking his death?



God bless his soul. Apple is going to have trouble finding someone as charismatic as Steve Jobs, but hopefully they can find someone that can keep the company staedily going.

No, we're celebrating his habit of putting "i" in front of everything.
iMortal (immortal)
iReplaceable (irreplaceable)
At least me and Corn were.
Mark and ChaosH are just douchebags. Have some fucking respect.

Just for more confirmation from a more "official" source, which I liked from the other thread:

http://www.apple.com/stevejobs/

sad feeling ._.

Feels sad to lose someone so influential and smart.

Rest in Peace

Ashes to Ashes

Dust to Dust

No, we're celebrating his habit of putting "i" in front of everything.
iMortal (immortal)
iReplaceable (irreplaceable)
At least me and Corn were.
Mark and ChaosH are just douchebags. Have some fucking respect.

iMortal was also good. Ninja edited in yours as being good as you replied. Just a certain couple being dicks about his death.

People die everyday. Where are their threads?

Only people that are saddened by this are hipsters, and morons that don't know anything about computers (Apple consumers). Steve Jobs was a master at selling overpriced labels on his electronics. Come at me, bros.