[Closed] Steve Jobs resigns!

****. I don't care about his job. This isn't a good indicator regarding his health. 🙁

i'm surprised the fanbois haven't posted this before (maybe they have!) perhaps they are all in mourning?

good luck to Jobs though, health is everything afterall

Whatever you think about him he's done amazing things at Apple. Good luck,

i'm surprised the fanbois haven't posted this before

We're too busy mixing up Kool-Aid in preparation for our moment of final ascension to the Great App Store.

very Stargate Atlantis there GrahamS....

As chairman he will still have a lot of clout though

iYawn.

iQuit

(heard it on the radio but it made me lol. Always sad to see someone have to quit what they love because of illness)

Not an apple user myself but I hope they can continue to be innovative without him. However I suspect not; coorporate america does not reward that sort of thing.

It's Steve who's driven the company, and had the vision to find and employ the right people to fill the positions to take the company where he wanted it to go. Tim Cook is just as obsessed with the business as Jobs' is, but everyone forgets who it is who actually designs all the products. And it ain't Steve Jobs.

Quasi-religious cult.....

Absolutely - there will always be muppets lacking personality who try to buy it through products/things, CFH and tbh I don't find SJ a very appealing person BUT Apple has unquestionably driven innovation and forced others to compete by creating better products. That's a positive in my eyes.

Apple has unquestionably driven innovation and forced others to compete by creating better products. That's a positive in my eyes.

Very much so, and for that they deserve credit. I do, however, find the almost religious zeal of [i]some[/i] fanbois a little disturbing!

But that's true of all sorts of products/things - be it bike brands, football teams, cars, clothes. It's the people trying to define themselves through something that you can buy/associate with that are the issue really, not the brands.

I do, however, find the almost religious zeal of some fanbois a little disturbing!

Something that appears to be matched, somewhat, by the zeal of those who take an anti-apple stance.

i'm surprised the fanbois haven't posted this before (maybe they have!) perhaps they are all in mourning?

Classy.

Very much so, and for that they deserve credit. I do, however, find the almost religious zeal of some fanbois a little disturbing!

Really? Jesus, I'd never have guessed...you've hardly mentioned it in the past. Do you [i]really[/i] feel that way? Well, I never... 🙄

very Stargate Atlantis there GrahamS....

? I was thinking more [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_the_Kool-Aid ]Jonestown[/url].

I do, however, find the almost religious zeal of some fanbois a little disturbing!

Loads of folk go on about the unquestioning iFanboi zealot sheeple - but I rarely see any real examples of it. (granted this may be because I'm one of "them")

What I do see a fair bit is folk simply defending themselves when they are called idiots, zealots and mindless drones for liking a particular brand of gadget.

Anyway: good luck Steve. Hope your retirement is long and happy.

so the Virus that he claims not to have is most definitely not entering its final stages then....

Virus? You mean pancreatitis?

Either way, it is going to be a loss for the company, but I sincerely hope that he can improve his health away from the company.

so the Virus that he claims not to have is most definitely not entering its final stages then....

Virus? He has pancreatic cancer and had a liver transplant two years ago.

Steve Jobs retires. End of an era. The net result at Apple, however, will be precisely zero as far as the end users are concerned.

See how Microsoft underwent radical changes when Bill Gates stood down? No, me neither. Apple is a huge corporation, SJ is merely the public face of it.

I rarely see any real examples

Start a thread asking for phone advice. Give an exacting list of requirements for which an iPhone is unsuitable, then see how long it takes for someone to tell you that you need an iPhone. I give it to the end of page 1.

For added gits and shiggles, it works with Linux and Mac owners too.

Loads of folk go on about the unquestioning iFanboi zealot sheeple - but I rarely see any real examples of it.

(one of us, one of us...)

willard - Member
Virus? You mean pancreatitis?

Either way, it is going to be a loss for the company, but I sincerely hope that he can improve his health away from the company.

umm you do know he is meant to be dieing of Aids dont you, it was a huge net meme.

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http://encyclopediadramatica.ch/Steve_Jobs

Start a thread asking for phone advice. Give an exacting list of requirements for which an iPhone is unsuitable, then see how long it takes for someone to tell you that you need an iPhone. I give it to the end of page 1.

That's more about STW than anything else.

Give an exacting list of requirements for which an iPhone is unsuitable, then see how long it takes for someone to tell you that you need an iPhone.

I'm struggling to come up with that list, Cougar. 😥

@lmg 🙄

Fanboi-ism does exist but DD is right - thread below - specifically not Giant Anthem. What's being discussed in page 1?

http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/what-new-bike-other-than-an-anthem

(caveat - I know that it's not a perfect example but it's definitely STW 🙂 )

1) Battery life
2) Instructions on how to use it
3) Rugged

There you go, I have started you off with 3

Alternatively:
[i]Start a thread asking for [u]iphone[/u] advice. Give an exacting list of requirements for why iPhone is suitable, then see how long it takes for someone to tell you that you need an HTC/Windows Phones et all. I give it to the end of [u]post 4[/u].[/i]

As above, it won't affect Apple in the slightest long term, I wish the bloke the best of luck with his health problems.

Start a thread asking for phone advice.

People giving bad advice is not zealotry.

it works with Linux and Mac owners too.

An Android/HTC owners, PC owners, Mondeo drivers, golfers, cross-stitch enthusiasts... etc etc etc people give advice about what they know. That ain't "religious zeal" or a "Quasi-religious cult"

I'm struggling to come up with that list, Cougar.

It usually just consists of the requirement "I don't want to buy an Apple product". Whether that makes any sense or not is another issue.

1) Battery life
2) Instructions on how to use it
3) Rugged

Motorola Defy.

IAids,

I'm struggling to come up with that list, Cougar

Fanboi. (-:

Alternatively:
Start a thread asking for iphone advice. Give an exacting list of requirements for why iPhone is suitable, then see how long it takes for someone to tell you that you need an HTC/Windows Phones et all. I give it to the end of post 4.

Can you give me an example?

Give an exacting list of requirements for which an iPhone is unsuitable, then see how long it takes for someone to tell you that you need an iPhone.

1) Battery life
2) Instructions on how to use it
3) Rugged

<fights urge not to leap to the iPhone's defence and thereby prove a point/>

Can you give me an example?

Cougar masquerading as TJ. I claim my prize 🙂

umm you do know he is meant to be dieing of Aids dont you, it was a huge net meme.

It was on the Internet so it must be true!!!!

yea but just look at him, hes got it..

Can you give me an example?

That's also very STW.

Cougar masquerading as TJ.

YOU TAKE THAT BACK!

That's also very STW.

It's easy to pass off wild claims as 'fact'. I did it a few posts earlier.

must not get drawn into this, but; Ive been living in the iWorld for the past year and have nothing significant to report other than, things I want to do I can, things work correctly and I've had no problems....surely thats how it should be:)

yep which is why I happily ignored it 😀

must not get drawn into this

Too late.

Jobs is Apple.

Imagine a designer comes up with a radical new idea like "lets prototype a tablet". 99.99% of company execs would point out that tablets flopped in the 1990's and say "no" or "lets form a committee".

But Jobs saw it was time for the iPad tablet and said "yes". And even if all the other Apple execs had thought "no", Jobs' opinion was the only one that counts, because Jobs is Apple.

[url= http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/business/iphones-resign-201108254238/ ]And if you want to kill pigs with birds, then buy a pig and throw some live chickens at it. It takes a lot more skill and provides top quality, aerobic exercise.[/url]

🙂

umm you do know he is meant to be dieing of Aids dont you, it was a huge net meme.

http://encyclopediadramatica.ch/Steve_Jobs

Is this a web-myth or real? If its real that is awful.

magine a designer comes up with a radical new idea like "lets prototype a tablet". 99.99% of company execs would point out that tablets flopped in the 1990's and say "no" or "lets form a committee".

+1

and same with the iPod (yes you could buy MP3 players earlier if you were a geek but 'most' people didn't know or get why they would want one) and the iPhone (all the handset manufacturers refused to make a touch screen phone for years on account of it not being what people wanted)

yea loads of his Ifan-boys are infecting themselves at Igifting party's so they can die like their hero steve hand jobs

I had a Apple tablet- brand new/packaged that I sold in 2002 8)

yea loads of his Ifan-boys are infecting themselves at Igifting party's so they can die like their hero steve hand jobs

Do you just keep posting more and more offensive stuff until someone reacts? I'm all for not name-calling around here, but you really do come across as a cock sometimes. Why do you look for attention in this way?

There is a piece in the New York Times about all the patents Jobs has his name on. It demonstrates how involved he has been in product design. Oddly there is even a patent for a staircase design!

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/08/24/technology/steve-jobs-patents.html

I really do hope its not terminal and he really is just getting better/retiring. Bloody awful. I don't know why the thread is defending into slagging off 'fans' of Apple.

I own a Apple Classic (love the design), ipod and a G4 ibook.

What should we do? Stick to the old Amstrad-type designs?

ilovemygears - Member

yea loads of his Ifan-boys are infecting themselves at Igifting party's so they can die like their hero steve hand jobs

I can only assume that your name is ironic, iLovemygears.

(iRonic, heh.)

wow some fan boys are getting up set... maybe its their Itime of the month

wow some fan boys are getting up set... maybe its their Itime of the mouth

Ahh. The dyslexia is back I see.

Weird how it comes and goes like that.

id be a dyslexic than an Iretard

It's not dyslexia - it's the autocorrect on his iPhone 😀

id be a dyslexic than an Iretard

I see what you did there.

.....nailing your colours to the mast that is. Good to see my earlier comment, on the zealotry of anti-apple bods, being demonstrated so comprehensively.

TheMan, as the saying goes,

"Never argue with an idiot, they drag you down to their level then beat you with experience."

Or as the cool kids say, "do not feed the troll."

i love the conditions there made in as well in the Isuicide factory,[url= http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/china-business/7773011/A-look-inside-the-Foxconn-suicide-factory.html ]click[/url] just how much money did Steve jobs give to charity last year??? nowt!!! 0$ even though he has billions!

so pleas keep buying this over priced shit, and then think about the shity lives of the people that make them when u down load ur Igotasamllcock app.

I'm sure the tail-end of this thread has a purpose, but can't you all just exchange 'yo mommas' and call it quits?

🙄

I keep thinking he'll tire himself out...you know, like a baby having a tantrum. But he just keeps going. Agree with cougar though about arguing with an iDiot.

"Never argue with an idiot, they drag you down to their level then beat you with experience."

I am not arguing with it.

I like to think what I am doing is more akin to trapping a wasp in a pint glass, and then tapping the glass to see what the reaction is.

This is an unpleasant thread. It's really getting worse round here.

theman - Member
I am not arguing with it.

I like to think what I am doing is more akin to trapping a wasp in a pint glass, and then tapping the glass to see what the reaction is.

lol youre losing mate , and losing hard

Suggestion:

Person 1: Hey! Yo Mama!
Person 2: No way, bro - yo Mama!
Person 1 (laughing): Right on. Let's go get ratted.
Person 2 (grabbing wallet): Sweet.

Happiness ensues.

This is an unpleasant thread. It's really getting worse round here.

I take your point. But only really since the intervention of one poster in particular.

*tap tap tap*

Fascinating. Can we keep him?

deadlydarcy - Member

This is an unpleasant thread. It's really getting worse round here.

I take your point. But only really since the intervention of one poster in particular.

Agreed.

Have had my finger hovering over the "report" button.

This is an unpleasant thread. It's really getting worse round here.

It's not an unpleasant thread. It just contains a single unpleasant element.

I shouldn't bite but I can't let this go.

i love the conditions there made in as well in the Isuicide factory

That's Foxconn, not Apple. They make components for Apple, sure, and just about everyone else. Got a games console? Foxconn inside. PC? Laptop? Phone? Most likely they'll all have Foxconn parts.

Enjoy that moral highground, the only way you'll avoid Foxconn is by becoming Amish. Which I sincerely suggest you consider.

Fascinating. Can we keep him?

Well ok, but only if you promise to clean up after it. This task should not be underestimated though, because as we can see, this particular breed produces an awful lot of shit.

Quite sad really, for all modern technology etc we are all responsible for the conditions of workers with parallels to the 19th century millworkers of old 🙁

Well it looked like this week's Chat magazine award for the most pathetic post was going to

umm you do know he is meant to be dieing of Aids dont you, it was a huge net meme.

then I realised it was ilovemygears which means it's more about mental health issues than being a sad and pathetic little creature with nothing better to do with it's time.

Your carer really should monitor your use of that computer

What's worse? The bear? Or the guys with sticks poking the bear?

No comment made as to who ^^^^^^ is playing which roles!

😕

What's worse? The bear? Or the guys with sticks poking the bear?

Depends. Did the bear start acting like a complete **** before or after the poking started?

My main worry about starting this thread was whether it would turn into an I-heart-Apple Vs I-hate-Apple thing. But no, it's got much worse. 🙁

Quite sad really, for all modern technology etc we are all responsible for the conditions of workers with parallels to the 19th century millworkers of old

Yep, but like all these things, you have to take a step back and say "Would they be better off without these jobs? Is the money improving their economy and standards of living?"

#tryingtochangethesubject

I think for the first time my opinion has been changed by a thread on STW - if ilovemygears was my child, I'd pay for them to live in an apartment far away from the family home....