Damn, the 4S was a complete failure of a product announcement but this just seems a bit much.

And by the way I'll be pre-ordering my 4S from KDDI tomorrow.

Tall Paul wrote:

I also love that people were posting such virulent trash yesterday about what a dick Steve Jobs was for not showing up.

Really?  I'd never give the guy shit for not showing up in his condition.

Dying the day after and knocking the wind outta already pretty windless sails?  Right the fuck on.

$100 says he kicked it over the weekend and they held off announcing it until after the launch.

He converted to Hinduism yesterday, he's only rebooting

I'm hating on Jobs in this thread too.
Douche

choad wrote:

I knew some of the small circle Jobs ran with in the middle 70s and all described him at the time as a monumental thieving dick. None, in later years, could account for his success. True, Gates gave off the same stink.

I have small request, guys. If you're posting a timely obit, please include a last name in the subject line.

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George Orr wrote:

Holy shit.  I hope this doesn't change Apple's business model too much.  I await the W-W-Hissy-Fit.

They've already changed their business model, their new model is lawsuits.

George Orr wrote:

Holy shit.  I hope this doesn't change Apple's business model too much.  I await the W-W-Hissy-Fit.

They'll do what they did last time: run Apple straight into the ground and into bankruptcy court by being standard business dicks in a company that demands vision. Maybe Woz can bail them out next time.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/10 … jobs_gone/

Richard Stallman wrote:

Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died.

As Chicago Mayor Harold Washington said of the corrupt former Mayor Daley, 'I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone'. Nobody deserves to have to die – not Jobs, not Mr Bill, not even people guilty of bigger evils than theirs. But we all deserve the end of Jobs' malign influence on people's computing.

Unfortunately, that influence continues despite his absence. We can only hope his successors, as they attempt to carry on his legacy, will be less effective.

Eric Raymond wrote:

Jobs' success at hypnotizing millions of people into a perverse love for the walled garden is more dangerous to freedom in the long term than [Microsoft co-founder] Bill Gates's efficient but brutal and unattractive corporatism. People feared and respected Microsoft, but they love and worship Apple - and that is precisely the problem, precisely the reason Jobs may in the end have done more harm than good.

Can they bury the "I'm a Mac" douche in the same coffin?