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RIP Steve Jobs.

Wed Oct 5, 2011, 5:40 PM


[link] <-- A link if anybody wants to read an article about him.

The guy was a marketing genius, and I don't think Pixar would exist today if it weren't for him, not to mention all the things that Apple's done in terms of the development of technology. I wonder how things will change? I just recently read about him stepping down as CEO back in August due to his pancreatic cancer, but I certainly didn't see him passing so soon.

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:iconstonerabbit:
=StoneRabbit Oct 6, 2011  Student Digital Artist
I don't get why people are sad about this, Steve Jobs is dead but not Apple.
You'll still be able to buy overpriced phones every year ;)
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:icontuxedodemon:
~TuxedoDemon Oct 6, 2011  Professional Digital Artist
You're not funny. You're actually kind of dumb and insensitive. [link] <--Go look up the stuff he did for modern day computers in general and Pixar, and understand things. And excuse me for looking up to the guy as a marketing genius and being genuinely upset that he died.
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:iconstonerabbit:
=StoneRabbit Oct 6, 2011  Student Digital Artist
When I see all those extremely similar and expensive apple products that were created in the last years, I am more lookig Steve Jobs as a marketing asshole than a genius one. Sure, his products are awesome but the Apple marketing is just a joke for me.
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:icontuxedodemon:
~TuxedoDemon Oct 6, 2011  Professional Digital Artist
I don't even mean Apple products, I just mean computers in general. If you're using Windows, that entire GUI is based off of his idea to make icons and menus and to point and click with a mouse. I don't think it was his original idea to do that, but he's the one who actually took the concept of it and made it work. Anybody who uses a computer these days, whether it's from Apple or not, can thank him for that innovation. Nobody has to type in commands anymore (unless they want to) thanks to him.

And how is it a joke? If people are buying his products, then he's clearly doing something very right in the marketing department, especially since his stuff is so expensive and people are still buying it even in this shit economy. That company is the biggest in the world, and it only became that way after he became CEO again and pulled it out of the toilet. And he did the same thing when he was CEO of Pixar; that company wouldn't even exist right now if it weren't for him, and we wouldn't have gotten things like Toy Story from it. He is somebody that I really want to study and learn from because of the fact that he was so successful. I admired him, and so did a lot of other people, and I'm sad to see him go.
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:iconhunter0167:
He's been in charge of some amazing revolutionary tech changes since he started Apple basically. Sure his updating of his revolutionary ideas every few months got annoying, but damn that man knew how to enrapture a consumer with the desire to buy his crap.
Few people showed such passion for what they were doing like him, I may hate the Mac, but I love the man...Its a shame that cancer finally took him.
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:icontiggo:
!Tiggo Oct 5, 2011  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
i wasn't an applefangirl. i'm not an applefangirl. i didn't go crazy over the iphone or follow his every product or buy everything. i had an ipod touch. that's it. and even that i was grateful for.

and i never KNEW him. i never met him. and i didn't follow his life like most people did. especially the applefanpeople.

but this is sad, regardless of what he's done. he was a huge icon to a lot of people and influences a lot of people's lives. to me, his legacy shouldn't be soley about the products he made but rather about how he touched people and helped people BECAUSE OF the products he made, ya know?

RIP steve jobs. you changed the world.
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:iconmrsargon:
Yeah, I don't feel sad about this, but it is a sad thing. He was just a genius, he achieved to make people buy overpriced stuff and make them feel awesome about it. Genius, I have said.

Also, I saw the Pixar story like, two or three weeks ago, and he actually was a big deal to them. Thanks to him, Pixar is where it is right now. Kudos to him.
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:icontuxedodemon:
~TuxedoDemon Oct 5, 2011  Professional Digital Artist
... The first thing you said sounds like an insult, but anyways...

Pixar wouldn't even exist right now if it weren't for him. I'm positive of that.
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:iconmrsargon:
Shit. So much gramatical errors on that last comment I made. I need some more english practice.
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:iconmrsargon:
I was trying to be a ninja-asshole, so it actually is an insult but, hidden somehow. BUT, In no way I want to offend you or people that really likes/loves Steve Jobs. The genius part was actually honest though. I might never buy a Mac because of how overpriced they are, but that's just me. I have to admit, they're design is fucking awesome. I hope Apple's products and services keep as awesome as they already all, specially on the design part.
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