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| Steve Jobs has passed away.; :( | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Oct 6 2011, 01:09 AM (90 Views) | |
| snickerdoodle | Oct 6 2011, 01:09 AM Post #1 |
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Steve Jobs has died. so so sad.
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| crazybydefault | Oct 6 2011, 02:47 AM Post #2 |
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Even though his software and company annoy me to no end, I still think it's sad ![]() It also, once again, proved that Twitter > Real news stations. |
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| CallUpChuck | Oct 6 2011, 03:24 AM Post #3 |
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Because I enjoy hearing news from @iamdiddy and @KingJames more than Brian Williams at NBC and John Malkoff at the NYT and Heidi Moore at the WSJ and anyone from 60 Minutes. I would wait a second before elevating Jack Dorsey to a status above our media. I'm not denying Twitter's innovative one-to-many information transference, but in no planet is Twitter > Real news stations.
And oh yes, Steve Jobs. Very sad. He found a niche in the market that needed to be filled and he did it stupendously. Apple's business model was similar to Microsoft's back in 1990. I can assure you that people hated Microsoft more than they hate Apple these days. At least Apple hasn't been accused of being a monopoly, cf. United States v. Microsoft (2000). |
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| crazybydefault | Oct 6 2011, 03:45 AM Post #4 |
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By "Twitter > Real news stations", I was referring to the speed at which one can receive information. I had the news on in the background, and I read of his death on Twitter before I heard it on the news a few minutes later. I probably should have clarified. ![]() I guess it's a personal bias against Apple that leads to my annoyance with them. I grew up using Windows, so I've never really had any room in my life for Apple! |
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| SensoryFour34 | Oct 6 2011, 04:12 AM Post #5 |
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I actually just happened to have the news on, and right as I was about to turn it off, I heard that he had died. While people get very annoyed at Apple products, you have to admit that it's a very sad thing. He's the reason we have a fair amount of the technology we do. RIP Steve Jobs.
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| snickerdoodle | Oct 6 2011, 02:45 PM Post #6 |
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Just me.
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i did see the news pop up on twitter way before i could find it on any news website. i checked yahoo, cnn, fox news, msn, etc and nothing. i knew he was sick but i didn't realize he was THAT sick.
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| gans42 | Oct 6 2011, 04:28 PM Post #7 |
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Even if you're a PC person, keep in mind many of the major tech innovations we have now were innovated by Apple and later copied by other companies. User friendly tablets, touch screen smart phones with REAL internet, user friendly interfaces on computers, how you organize your music, etc. |
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| TheOneInYellow | Oct 6 2011, 05:50 PM Post #8 |
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The Audiophile
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I'll keep this post short....ish..... I am a PC person. I believe PC's to be highly flexible and great to work with. The new Win 7, and to be released next year, Win 8 (based on Win 7 Mobile) to be the next great OS from all the competitors. I am pro user choice when it comes to designing, building, tweaking and getting software on the PC side. I am also a sound engineer, which means Apple products are a MUST (for example, using the greatest Digital Audio Workstation, or DAW, in the world, is Apple's Logic Pro). I believe that Apple has revolutionised people's perceptions on how they prefer, and want, to use electronic devices. Take a look at early digital music players (DAP's, which includes MP3 players), tablets, super thin laptops (ultrabooks, and the like), early handheld computers (or palmtops), computers themselves, and so forth. Each were success and failures, but there was no oveall or overarching unity between these disparate products; there was no standard platform, ether by design or direction. Apple revolutionised the idea of a simple, unity-like, platform for which existing products can be embraced with, even if such products are limited, unflexible, highly expensive, and in some cases frivolous. Yet they were easy to use, in some cases ridiculously easy. Lets take a look at the iPod, specifically the 3rd Gen iPod. This, in my mind, is the single greatest product made in this century that completely and utterly rewrote product marketing, design, flair, easy of use, intuitive functionality, and an experience in that the product was/is fun to use. We all know of how well the scroll wheel has become a great icon, and yet this was then superseded by Apple's foresight in making controls even easier; the birth of the iPod Mini with it's clickwheel. What a master-stroke of ingenious design! Though now the new iPods are seen as cumbersome due to touch screen technology, and have clunky multi-menu trees, they are still brilliant products. Then, Apple went into the mobile business. Then, they resurrected the entire Tablet business, which Microsoft, Linux, Sony, Palm, and others, failed at. But this time, IT ACTUALLY WORKED. I don't even think I even need to mention the Mac computers themselves, but what I will say this; most Mac users are PC users, and each product has merits. In the media and business industries, Mac's are seen as the industrial design/creative machines, but PC's are seen as the number crunching and processing machines. To clarify, DAW's and image's processing software are used mainly on Mac's more now than the past, and videos may be partially created on Mac's, but PC's are often used to do the true hardwork (in animation, Maya can be used on Mac's, but mainly on PC's, and PC farms are used to render. Yet many prefer using Photoshop on a Mac, as that is more than sufficient to do high quality work and also works well/better with input tablets. The overall animation may be the result of PC and Mac's used together). I think that, rather than the age old PC or Mac, it is now both, as each has something to offer that can work well together than separately. In other words, the question is, itself, redundant. Most use a PC for daily use, but when it comes to work, Mac's and PC's are used. And lest face it, Apple's iPad is f*uc*ng SEXY. I will never be a true Apple user (in that I will not abandon using PC's), but I will NOT knock them as I had in the past (I stopped being a massive hater when I got an iPod Nano 1st Gen, and then stopped hating Mac's two years ago when doing my Music Tech studies). I will use both as and when necessary. Lest we forget, Mac first made click-able, movable windows. Windows (prior to 3.1) was still text based (Win DOS). Thank you Steve Jobs. You, alongside Bill Gates, are the true revolutionaries of the last few generations, and have done much to improve our world. I, a PC user, salute you Steve. You will be missed. |
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| gans42 | Oct 6 2011, 06:20 PM Post #9 |
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Ha, good one! Overall, great post though! |
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| TheOneInYellow | Oct 6 2011, 08:58 PM Post #10 |
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The Audiophile
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Thank you And again, thank you Steve Jobs
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| Scruff 815 | Oct 12 2011, 05:48 PM Post #11 |
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A guy I know (that's 'a guy I know', not 'friend') has long been insistent that he routinely plays on XBL with Steve Jobs. Obviously he doesn't; he's a gullible idiot who was very easily tricked by a guy with an American accent who knows what an iPhone is. I'm very, very curious as to whether the Steve Jobs impersonator is now playing as offline all the time, or if he's going to admit that he's been lying
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| crazybydefault | Oct 13 2011, 02:07 AM Post #12 |
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Ghost gamer?
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