[kj] OT: rip steve jobs

[Paul Rangecroft]

I'm glad someone finally brought up the spate of suicides by Apple product
manufactures. No mention of it on the radio, website obituaries etc.

He no doubt had many good qualities but the hyperbole is getting very
annoying. Just another successful businessman, of which there are many.

On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Brendan Quinn <bq at soundgardener.co.nz>wrote:


> Can someone actually articulate what Jobs is supposed to have done that's

> worthy of adulation? I read that someone just compared him to Edison and

> Einstein? WTF?

>

> I don't see him donating most of his time and money to charity like Gates

> (who has drummed up several tens of billions more cash from other rich

> ppl),

> I do see Apple using Chinese slave labour in conditions so onerous that

> they

> have to install anti-suicide nets.

>

> Xerox Parc invented the GUI / mouse, M$ and Apple both ripped it off, for

> some reason Jobs was indignant that M$ used it too, like he'd actually

> invented it.

>

> Could he code, or design computers? I don't think so, Wozniak did the brain

> work didn't he? Compared to Bill Gates who was a child prodigy and the

> chief

> of technology at M$...

>

> Personality...he got kicked out of Apple because he alienated everyone by

> being a prick from what I understand.

>

> I really don't get the Apple cult.

>

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>

> Agreed!

>

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> On Oct 5, 2011, at 11:57 PM, fatpotanga <fatpotanga at gmail.com> wrote:

>

> > Love him or hate him, he made a hell of an impact

>

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