RIP Steve Jobs

[Chomsky]

RIP - what a loss

[lektrode]

Re: RIP Steve Jobs

wow... was just thinking outloud the other day that AAPL was ripe for the short...

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	Market Cap:	350.67 B
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	EPS:	25.26
	PE:	14.70
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	Market Cap:	350.67 B
	Volume:	28.09 M

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• 7:37 PM Steve Jobs has died, AP reports Apple (AAPL) has said. Updated 7:40 p.m.: A short statement from Apple's board. 8 Comments
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• 3:16 PM The Android juggernaut keeps on rolling: comScore estimates Google's (GOOG) OS accounted for 43.7% of U.S. smartphone users as of August, up 1.9% from July, and 3.6% from June. The iPhone's (AAPL) share rose 0.3% from July, while Research In Motion's (RIMM) BlackBerrys saw a 2% decline. (Nielsen data) Comment!
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[Morelia]

Re: RIP Steve Jobs

Windows, not Walls.

[shiny!]

Re: RIP Steve Jobs

So sad. I wish peace for his soul and his family.

[mooncliff]

Re: RIP Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs made my life so much better, I don't know where to begin.

Apple stuff was expensive, but I brought it home, plugged it in, and it worked.

"All my possessions for a moment of Time." Elizabeth I (at the time, the wealthiest person in the world)

So thanks for taking me to warp into the 21st century. Your devices make stuff on Star Trek look clunky even though it is supposed to be in the 23rd Century. I learn more in a few hours a day than I ever did in a day in college. Audiobooks at triple speed, 20,000 science podcasts in the last three years, iPad GPS that helped me walk home after the March 11 megaquake in Japan, iPad Skype on WiFi so that I could let strangers call their families in Europe after the quake when the phones didn't work, Star Walk...

If anyone hasn't seen his Stanford commencement address, it says it all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc

[goadam1]

Re: RIP Steve Jobs

You should take this post down.

[goadam1]

Re: RIP Steve Jobs

You should take this post down.

wow... was just thinking outloud the other day that AAPL was ripe for the short...

Today 5d 1m 3m 1y 5y 10y
	52wk high:	422.86
	52wk low:	285.26
	EPS:	25.26
	PE:	14.70
	Div Rate:	N/A
	Yield:	N/A
	Market Cap:	350.67 B
	Volume:	28.09 M

Today 5d 1m 3m 1y 5y 10y
	52wk high:	422.86
	52wk low:	285.26
	EPS:	25.26
	PE:	14.70
	Div Rate:	N/A
	Yield:	N/A
	Market Cap:	350.67 B
	Volume:	28.09 M

AAPL Market Currents more »

• 7:37 PM Steve Jobs has died, AP reports Apple (AAPL) has said. Updated 7:40 p.m.: A short statement from Apple's board. 8 Comments
  [Tech, Breaking News, Top Stories]
• 3:16 PM The Android juggernaut keeps on rolling: comScore estimates Google's (GOOG) OS accounted for 43.7% of U.S. smartphone users as of August, up 1.9% from July, and 3.6% from June. The iPhone's (AAPL) share rose 0.3% from July, while Research In Motion's (RIMM) BlackBerrys saw a 2% decline. (Nielsen data) Comment!
  [Tech]

[aaron]

Re: RIP Steve Jobs

It is an econ site.

Jobs was not a nice guy . He needs no more reverence than any other human CEO that dies.

I like iGadgets myself and am sad that he will not be around to make more.

[konj]

Re: RIP Steve Jobs

Aaron,

I believe you are correct. $8bln of "personal fortune" could not do a thing to save him. His assets look with indifference at him now. It's time to pause and take a careful look at our lives before it's too late.

[mooncliff]

Re: RIP Steve Jobs

No, he was not a nice, or fair, guy. If I knew him personally, I would hate him.

However, without him, we would all still be typing in Courier font and a black screen with a C prompt at the bottom. I exaggerate only slightly.

Ages ago, his real products began to exceed the imaginations of the best scifi writers.

Also, he was a Buddhist, so he knew that some have a long time and some short, and in that short time he sure made my life better, and more beautiful. All Apple products are clearly zen.

One of the funniest comments I have seen: [Steve,] please try not to give the Almighty too hard a time about his Design.

[mesyn191]

Re: RIP Steve Jobs

However, without him, we would all still be typing in Courier font and a black screen with a C prompt at the bottom. I exaggerate only slightly.

Nah you're exaggerating pretty heavily. Someone else would've done a good consumer grade clone of NEXT's OS or R&D on GUI's that Palo Alto did in the 70's eventually. Aaron pretty much nailed it. Jobs was a very smart man who helped make some very good products and got rich doing what he did but was also a notorious douche bag who few could stand to be around in a professional capacity for any length of time. I see no reason to venerate him.

Ages ago, his real products began to exceed the imaginations of the best scifi writers.

OK you're really stretching now. You need to read some Vernor Vinge or Neal Asher, much less some classic SciFi from Clarke or Asimov to really understand just how fully you've managed to insert your foot in your mouth just now.

[Morelia]

Re: RIP Steve Jobs

http://twit.tv/show/twit-live-specials/95

[mooncliff]

Re: RIP Steve Jobs

Well, when Macs came out, I was told they were for stupid people. While the rest continued to use a C prompt for 10 years... until, Lo and behold! Windows has the same GUI interface.

What I mean is that even things depicted by the writers in 2001 and Star Trek are far clunkier than what you can get for a few hundred dollars from Apple. You don't think holding up an iPad with Star Walk is jawdropping? Everyone I have shown it to is speechless. People in restaurants have come over because they can't believe what it can do. Apple didn't make the app, but it set up apps. Star Walk was one of the things that saved me after the megaquake in March. It was overcast and I couldn't see the sky at 2:30 AM, but hold the iPad up to the sky, and I knew I was going in the right direction.

If you don't like Apple stuff, by all means, don't use it. I don't want to waste time arguing about it... back to BBC4 science podcasts for the last week.

By the way, I have had IBM/DOS/Windows whatever computers for the last 25 years, and I have had Apples for 25 years, and used them about equally. I also have multiple Android devices.

[mesyn191]

Re: RIP Steve Jobs

I think they're good but over priced and over cosmetic conscious products. I also really really dislike their business practices WRT to software and hardware openess, they're like a flashier version of MS with great PR IMO. I'll take my cheap but clunky laptop or net book over a Apple laptop or tablet any day. Jobs efforts and products were nowhere near as world changing or important as say Ford's or Edison's products were. By all accounts I wouldn't like either of them at all personally too but the work they did was vastly more significant and made people's lives much better and they're perhaps worthy of some veneration IMO after their deaths because of it.

[FrankL]

Re: RIP Steve Jobs

You should take this post down.

Oh no! it's the political correctness police! everybody hide!!!

The other option is to just voice your disapproval of someone else's opinion with facts.

Anyway, I'm really curious how Apple will do after Jobs. They're in a relatively good position, but there are plenty of signs that they have issues competing against the likes of Samsung, Google and Amazon. Unless they keep innovating at an incredible rate, they'll find them selves slowly falling behind and slowly losing marketshare.