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Steve Jobs isn’t a person or even the type of person who is ever really talked about on Videogum. That is to say, he isn’t an actor, or an animal, or a baby, or someone who has recently had a trampoline accident. But it would seem kind of odd or off not to acknowledge his death in the standard Videogum way. (Which also generally includes a quote from a source, so here is the New York Times: )
Steven P. Jobs, the visionary co-founder of Apple who helped usher in the era of personal computers and then led a cultural transformation in the way music, movies and mobile communications were experienced in the digital age, died Wednesday. He was 56.
But it would seem odd not to acknowledge it for a lot of reasons, the least of which being that, as far as I know, Videogum (as well as close to every blog on Earth, probably) is written exclusively using products he invented. Plus a real source of contention in my relationship with Gabe is that we both have iPhones and he’s always upset that my white iPhone is cooler than his black iPhone. So it seems appropriate. A lot of people are saying some really great things about it (some of us may have been up since 7 this morning reading basically every Steve Jobs obituary on the Internet and being surprised at how much they are crying about it, I don’t know who but just some of us maybe have been doing that) so I’d like to point you in the direction of a few: Wired, Gizmodo, the New York Times from before, and this collection of quotes from New York Magazine.
R.I.P. Steve Jobs. You’re in heaven now, revolutionizing the way the angels view and use technology.
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Also, check out this twitter feed. It is retweeting people who are commemorating Steve Jobs but can’t spell his name or “RIP” correctly. It made me laugh a lot. http://twitter.com/#!/EliBraden
Shouldn’t it be RiP?
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You are really just a terrible pimp. Inet or otherwise.
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I downvoted you. ( iDownvoted you.)
Man, and I was just PREDICTING the iNsensitive jokes!
OOOH! OOOH! I’ll go first
Steve Jobs passed away before being able to unveil the newest Apple product to hit the market; the i-Died.
Seriously though, I haven’t seen this much global sympathy (global=my facebook news feed) in a long time. People mentioning how they are praying for his family and whatnot (iPray, no duh). It all seems a little..odd? Empty? I don’t know. I mean, I recognize that a true technological and social visionary was lost today, and for all the good and the bad that came from his products, that’s a loss to me missed. But all this sudden over the top sympathy seems a little contrived and unnecessary. And I am totally willing to admit that perhaps I am just a bitter asshole.
Agreed. I took a bit of heat for it yesterday on twitter, but I don’t understand the people laying flowers outside of Apple Stores as much as I dislike the iDeath trolls (they always come out when famous people die, solely to make teh Best Joeks)
People react to loss in different ways.
I agree. I think there needs to be a name for this. Eulotweets? To me, it occupies the same space as facebook slacktivism/hashtags like #occupywallstreet and #freetroydavis. People like to post, take their moral credentials, feel better about themselves, etc. Or maybe i’m bitter too…
Us in 40 years. Only question now is, who wears the bucket hat? (I wear the bucket hat)
The hands-down worst eulomeme I have seen for Jobs so far?
iSad.
What a dumb, infantile way to memorialize someone.
I also saw it accompanied by “hope you’re up on your own private iCloud right now!” which…. ugh.
It’s just very silly, all of it. People like to feel involved, it’s sheepy. I’ll bet a lot of people’s mailmen have died over the years and nobody’s been the wiser. The guy that delivers letters to your home every day of the week, and no-one goes to their house and delivers a nice letter to them when they pass. But a billionaire that ripped off ideas from smarter men goes, and there’s a worldwide race to type R.I.P. Meh, we’re all very stupid, us people.
makes me want to iPoop on their face.
My best friend’s wife changed her facebook and Twitter icons to Apple logos because “they’ve always been an Apple family and this feels like a personal loss”. And I had to resist the urge to say “what are you even talking about?”
I don’t want to make light of Steve Jobs’ death. Obviously, that would be a ridiculous thing. My granddad died of pancreatic cancer just a few weeks ago and near the end of his life he looked a different man. There is no excusing, however, some of Apple’s business practices (and I’m talking use of child labour in China, notable lack of philanthropy and landfills full of incrementally lower spec electronics that have been replaced due to a calculated obsolescence model), and in response to his death people are going to use it as an excuse to talk about these poor practices. And it is incredibly untactful but with some focus on Apple as a company people need to talk about these things. I know that this is not the right time to have a conversation about the “dark side” of Steve Jobs’ legacy, and instead the time to celebrate his life as a visionary and genius in the field of expensive western electronics. But I really, in my heart, can’t help but think, when I see people calling Steve Jobs a great man, about some of the awful things that the company has overseen. And yeah, I posted this on Videogum, instead of Facebook or Twitter, because I can’t bare to say it in front of people who know me. I’ll take the hit of a few downvotes, I guess.
Fuck, we need some dark sarcasm over here.
*sigh*
i think this is probably the most apropos, as far as dark commentary goes:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1382396/Workers-Chinese-Apple-factories-forced-sign-pledges-commit-suicide.html
I said similar things in front of twitter and took my medicine; go stand up for what you believe in.
But Also –
Think about every article of clothing you are wearing, any food you eat, all of the media you consume, and the rest of the trappings of your modern life. Are YOU completely free of any complicity in the problems you listed above? Are you Sweatshop Free, Free Trade Certified, always?
I don’t disagree with you, just pointing out that there is a Large Set of ‘first world blinders’ that seems to prevent many from considering such points.
Pretty much, especially considering that most of the people “mourning” his death have no knowledge of Steve Jobs or Apple other than a vague awareness that his company made the thing they send text messages on.
Also, even if you haven’t been to Boing Boing in five years, it’s worth looking at Boing Boing today
I will not read anything by Cory Doctorow until he acknowledges that he and I are, in fact, mortal enemies. Thus far all of my Tweets informing him of this fact have gone ignored.
Is Boing Boing a trampoline accident site?
yes, but only for open source steampunk trampolines
Fair use has a bouncy!
Bad news for the unemployed: less Jobs in America.
The white iPhone is cooler than the black iPhone? Hardly. The white one looks like something out of Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey.
sent from my Android
No way, the white iPhone is a far more developed and evolved species of iPhone than the blacks
#thinlyveiledracism
That blurb does not even mention co-founding Pixar. Steve Jobs, RIP. You led an amazing life.
To infinity and beyond indeed…
Yep, good man. It’s as clear as the Ann on plain’s face.
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Too soon. Be careful; do you remember what happened to the last guy who released information about Apple too soon?
http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/crime/2011/10/apple-could-face-lawsuit-over-iphone-prototype-investigation-july
At least this explains why he stepped down from being CEO of Apple. Clearly it was keeping all the doctors away.
Never watched it.
The #1 rule of marketing is to make sure that your ad is at least 75% white space.
“Can you make the actors even smaller?”-Advertisers.
For the nerds (like me), this is our John Lennon.
The true Videogum way of honoring Jobs would be to find a video of someone dropping his or her Mac or iPod while walking a tightrope. I did an extensive search on YouTube for 3 minutes and couldn’t find anything of that nature, but this came up. I think it serves as a good Videogum tribute. I don’t have sound, so I have no idea what’s going on, but it might be better that way.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYpjVyqYb0Q
The timing of this is so weird to me. They just had their big announcement about iphone 4s, which was completely disappointing because it wasn’t iphone 5. Then this happens, such a strange contrast.
Anyway, I like Apple products and respect Steve Jobs for the fact that he let the Apple design team make really awesome objects even if it cost lots of money (see Jonathan Ives section of “Objectified”).
I saw on the news that the President is preparing to give a press conference on the Jobs Bill. I predict much confusion.
Would you call that “Jobs Bill-Gate”?
You know what? Go for it, Mr. President.
The Steve Jobs Memorial American Innovation Act
Solves the whole problem that Louie “America’s Shitstain” Gohmert set up for you in stealing the original name.
I couldn’t find any pictures of Sugar Bush Squirrel in a black turtleneck and jeans, so this will have to do:
He is in the System now. At midnight all the world’s iPhones will ring in unison.
And all the world’s time zones will synchronize.
Fun fact: I once read a (very bad) scifi book where the time on some planet was “a few hours later than on Earth”.
I’ll say this and accept all the downvotes what may come: He was a dude nobody knew. When Thomas Edison died I’m sure people were all rushing to write “R.I.P Toomas Edisun” on their analog Twitter accounts (just a sliver of paper that people wrote 140 characters on and mailed to 100 of their friends.)
But like…we know in retrospect that Edison was a massive dillhole. And that Tesla, who would have provided (oh hindsight) probably a magnificent world free of redundant power lines and expensive monthly bills.
Anyways, Steve jobs died. Oh well?
My point is, if I could go back in time and write “@everyone Haha, you idiots, Edison was a massive dillhole and you should all be glad he’s gone. R.I.P my ass.” then I totally would. And do you have any idea how long it takes to write that message over and over again with a quill pen and then buggy it over to the post office across town to do all the mailouts? That’s like, a whole weekend right there.
And then ye old people from the past would be all “@djfreshie yea verily, what hast thou wrought with thy ill tongue? Forsooth!” So I say GO FOR IT.
“@facetaco In nary a minute I’d allow ye the opportunity to complete your thought, but alas, ‘fore I do, I’d propose the following: Tesla was unequivocally the best inventor of all time. Of all time.”
Edison basically created the music industry as we know it today with his invention of the phonograph, just like Jobs. And he killed an elephant as part of a grudge against alternative current, which I’m pretty sure is the modern equivalent to refusing to support flash applications?
Edison also believed in ghosts and tried to make a machine to talk to them.
That’s not so far off. Someone DID end up making a machine that can talk to ghosts:
I’m assuming that is a picture of Jennifer Love Hewitt.
Actually, it WAS the poster for AI. Jokeblocked by moviepostersdb.com!
Edison stole Recorded playback also: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/arts/27soun.html?ex=1364356800&en=14b6cec0c2c873bf&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all"nytimes
Edison was a patent expert, but guy couldn’t invent his way out of a wet paper invention.
“And the hyperlink award goes to….”
Remember back in 2008 when he started a press conference with this?
I didn’t. I had to look it up. -Mark Twain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtV80ZdpTY0
The iBrain for your listening pleasure. Lest we forget.
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Guess not.
http://itunes.apple.com/cl/app/harp-hd/id390640037?mt=8
“Steve Jobs Dies, Apple Products Stop Working”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyP4Nu-_p6I
Millions of Apple products, including iPhones, iPods, iPads, and Mac computers, suddenly stopped working on Wednesday when Apple founder Steve Jobs died of pancreatic cancer late that night. Apple issued a statement saying that they are working ’round the clock to devise and implement a solution, though they said it is proving difficult to devise and implement anything very successfully without their genius leader.