Steve Jobs dead

[Rockphorr]

 :( :( :( :(

[MichaelW]

It's sad that he only made it to age 56.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs

[Bill Cravener]

My father died at the age of 56. Though I know nothing about Steve Jobs other then he created Apple computers that's much to young for anyone to die.

[Farabi]

That is sad.

We have to take care bill gates and linus torvald more.

[Astro]

Rest in peace, Steve. Another pioneer lost too early.  :(

[TmX]

As already stated in Apple's website, "the world has lost an amazing human being".
I think I only know a few tech leaders who have great vision and such a relentless perfectionist. Steve is one of them.
Farewell.

[dedndave]

rest in peace Steve
in a way, that marks the end of an era

[jj2007]

German newspaper Der Spiegel titles Seven Billion People without Jobs

I have never owned any product from Apple, and I am not tempted, but nonetheless I guess we can all agree that he was a genius of the rare sort.
Rest in Peace, Steve Jobs.

[xanatose]

Sorry if I wake up on a Cynical A-hole mode. But I am sick of looking the news at CNN and MSNBC that try to make Jobs look like he invented everything from the mouse to the iPhone. He was just the equivalent of Edison. A CEO that takes credit for all the accomplishments of its workers.  Well maybe a little more, a great salesman that made people believe that whatever Apple made was humanity greatest achievement.

Mouse - Xerox
Original Apple - Wozniak
McIntouch - Jef Raskin team.
iPod -  Jon Rubinstein team.
Touch Screen : http://inventors.about.com/od/tstartinventions/a/Touch-Screen.htm
iPhone : http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071017202242AATg7RN

Overall, a death of a salesman, not of an inventor. Not to say that a salesman is not important, but calling them inventors, is a disrespect to real inventors.

[oex]

....

I think I only know a few tech leaders who have great vision and such a relentless perfectionist.

If only all of us perfectionists with great vision were tech leaders :lol

Sorry if I wake up on a Cynical A-hole mode. But I am sick of looking the news at CNN and MSNBC that try to make Jobs look like he invented everything from the mouse to the iPhone.

Ah I agree with you however I am always in a Cynical A-hole mode :lol

In the UK we have the 'independant' BBC that is 'forbidden' to promote any product.... (In the interests of good reporting and nutrality) however basically what this means is that they promote Apple and Google and other top brands (because they are top brands and therefore 'newsworthy').... Steve Jobs is just another Michael Jackson.... Someone so protected by the media machine that he could never have done anything wrong however heinious the crime.... He was a demi-god.... In death a BBC saint.... Only I do wonder the number of people who died for his success.... Wonder their stories plunging from buildings (etc)....

The news coverage is so warped these days.... thank god he was an American citizen!

[jj2007]

Overall, a death of a salesman, not of an inventor. Not to say that a salesman is not important, but calling them inventors, is a disrespect to real inventors.

So in which category would you put Dior, Gucci, Lagerfeld, Pininfarina etc? Just curious :bg

[oex]

I would probably be sued for copywrite infringement or somesuch if I took a snapshot of the webpage but I woke up to this this morning and was infuriated....

On the BBC news technology page there are 11 articles on Apple and Steve Jobs (about half the total Saturday coverage OF EVERYTHING)

Tributes flood in for Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs - 'a brilliant maverick'
The cult of Steve Jobs
Sorry Tim - Rory Cellan-Jones apologises to Apple's new boss
Apple plans Jobs commemoration
Tim Cook, Steve Jobs and an apology
What made Steve Jobs Unique
In pictures: Apple fans mourn
Apple unveils refreshed iPhone 4S
Fifth iPhone ready for launch
Click examines the impact on the world of technology and the legacy of Steve Jobs

Thank god the BBC license payers pay for UNBIASed reporting

Now granted a few of these are the "Most read stories of the week".... But is there any wonder when there is so much coverage? :lol.... This is called "Making the news".... Luckly the BBC has a program once a week (30 minutes) where viewers send in complaints about bias and bad coverage and the interviewer interviews a BBC executive who reassures us that actually for some obscure reason their coverage was not biased....

Not to be biased.... For all of you Apple fans here is the link :lol
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology/

[sinsi]

Front page of The Advertiser (local paper) yesterday.

Jobs almost single-handedly created the personal computing industry...

Hyperbole much?

For my money Bill did more but Steve was the ultimate PTB :clap:

[hutch--]

I think you can blame the PC on IBM initially by accident and Microsoft later by intent. Apple were always also-rans in the PC market.

[RedJim]

Very sad about Steve Jobs but we seem to have forgotten about Steve Wosniak and that is its own kind of sadness.
RedJim