OT: Steve Jobs passes away at 56
October 5th, 2011 at 9:13 PM ^
There wasn't an App for that...
October 5th, 2011 at 9:33 PM ^
I'll make sure to crack jokes when you lose someone close to you far too early. Death is never something to joke about.
October 5th, 2011 at 10:57 PM ^
As someone who spends a lot of time around cancer wards and hospital floors, I disagree. Perhaps my joke was in poor taste, but I know many many people who choose to keep their sense of humor to the end. In fact for some it is the only way to cope. One man who recently had a partial colostomy told me with the dryest of wit that he almost laughed his ass off when his doctor first told him about procedure. When a colleague asked a patient we were seeing for a followup on his Parkinson's how he was doing, he said "Eh, a little shaky, Doc."
I apologize for my insensitivity. Admittedly, it is not my place to joke about Mr. Jobs' tragic battle with cancer. I did not know him personally nor do I know his situation from personal experience.
October 5th, 2011 at 11:31 PM ^
I agree that humor is important in dealing with pain and loss. However, I think it is meant to be done in closed off private settings with people you have an existing relationship with.
To come and make a comment on a public forum (message board, facebook, twitter etc.) comes across as a way to get cheap laughs at the expense of someone else. I believe you when you say your intentions were different, but you could imagine the outcry here if someone made a joke about the MMB member who passed away last week.
It's easy to make jokes when they're about people we don't really know, but I believe it also seperates us from facing the reality that someone actually died and it really sucked for them and now it sucks for all of their family, friends, and coworkers.
I understand your intentions, but caution you to think about the way your comments will be received by the people hearing them. The people you joke with in the hospital will understand where your comment comes from much better than anyone on an online public forum.
October 5th, 2011 at 11:56 PM ^
We all mourn consumer electronics merchants differently bro
October 6th, 2011 at 12:00 AM ^
I'm not personally upset or grieving about this. To me it's about having some sense of civility and respect for human life.
When you die, I promise not to make jokes and piss on your tombstone even though your loss might mean nothing to me personally.
October 5th, 2011 at 10:17 PM ^
except for the very few.
October 5th, 2011 at 9:13 PM ^
Too many consumers.
Too few creators.
RIP Mr. Jobs. We need more of you.
October 5th, 2011 at 9:19 PM ^
Rest in peace, Mr Jobs.
You have made the world a better place.
posted with respect on iPhone
October 5th, 2011 at 9:37 PM ^
October 5th, 2011 at 9:42 PM ^
Cancer can f*cking suck it.
October 5th, 2011 at 9:43 PM ^
October 5th, 2011 at 9:44 PM ^
He was a creative mind. He consumerized technology better than anyone before him. To his family, I'm sure thoughts and prayers are with them. Let's hope, for the sake of our economy, the void he leaves allows other great minds of technology to rise up.
October 5th, 2011 at 9:47 PM ^
Also, a UM connection. Tony Fadell '91 is considered the godfather of the ipod.
October 5th, 2011 at 9:56 PM ^
to help computer club buy an Apple II. Typing this now on the latest in a long line of Macs in the house. Great inspiration and will be sorely missed. Have faith the company will continue on in fine fashion but it will never be quite the same.
Bizarre that I find out about his passing from a tweet from Weird Al, though...
October 5th, 2011 at 10:12 PM ^
which I read while skimming Twitter on my iphone.
Jobs revolutionized laptops (and likely much more) with the creation of the iPad.
Before that he revolutionized cell phones with the creation of the iPhone.
Before that he revolutionized the entire music industry with the creation of the iPod and iTunes.
Before that he revolutionized laptops with thinner than thin, beautiful laptops.
Before that he revolutionized *everything* by making computers personal--usable, affordable, and actually personal. Without that? No internet used by everyone, no Google, no Amazon, no Twitter, no global sea change in communications and the use of computing power in everyday lives. Or perhaps it all would have happened eventually, but it would have happened less efficiently, and with less care for the technology user's experience.
Jobs fully integrated technology and design. His effect on our world is profound without measure.
May he rest in peace, and condolences to his friends and relations.
October 5th, 2011 at 10:20 PM ^
You can add film to that list as well. Steve is really the reason Pixar is a company today, and they have undoubtedly changed the concept of animated film forever.
To me, the amazing thing, is when someone is referring to a MP3 player, they call in an iPod. You don't see that sort of brand integration in very many things, and when you do you can be certain it was a concept that changed the world.
RIP to a genius and one of the most influential people of our time. You will be sorely missed.
October 5th, 2011 at 10:25 PM ^
I knew I had forgotten key components of his career. Pixar did indeed revolutionize animated film.
October 5th, 2011 at 10:38 PM ^
I was in an investment class in college in 1980/1981. At that time the stock market was in the tank, just like it is now.
Nonetheless, the professor of the class told us "There are 2 stocks that are going to go public in a few weeks. One is a biotech company called Genentech. The other is a computer company called Apple. You should buy some stock in these 2 companies when they go public."
I believed him, but I was a poor college student and had no money to buy anything. Plus at that time, you didn't just pick up the phone and place a stock order. It was a much more involved (and expensive) process to buy stock.
Ah, the road not taken. If I was able to manage to buy just one share of Apple, just one, I'd be watching Michigan games today from one of Dave Brandon's luxury suites.
October 5th, 2011 at 10:40 PM ^
I've been a user of Apple products for 21 years. He was like a member of my family.
October 5th, 2011 at 10:45 PM ^
lets here them
October 5th, 2011 at 11:30 PM ^
Steve passed before he could develop that critical iHomonym app.
October 5th, 2011 at 11:07 PM ^
That one was for you, big guy.
October 5th, 2011 at 11:31 PM ^
Thank you for making this post possible, Steve.
October 5th, 2011 at 11:36 PM ^
By Jonathan Ives is the designer of all these products, which, probably more than software has changed the way technology works. Remember beige towers?
October 6th, 2011 at 12:13 AM ^
Thank you, Mr. Jobs. Thank you for representing the best of capitalism and the United States. Thank you for proving (once again) that genius comes not from a classroom, but from the innate traits of men and women. Thank you for expanding our horizons.
If there is a heaven I hope you are at this moment having a nice chat with Edison, Ford, and the innumerable other inventors who have made our lives richer.
Goodbye, Mr. Jobs.
October 6th, 2011 at 12:26 AM ^
October 6th, 2011 at 12:37 AM ^
But he changed the way we listen to music, Iphone's, Mac's, Ipod's,..etc
R.I.P
October 6th, 2011 at 12:45 AM ^
Our wonderful play-by-play man checks in on Facebook:
"Sad news about Steve Jobs...I wish those demonstrators in NY, intent on villifying the 1%ers like Jobes, would read his 2005 commencement speech at Stanford...He talks about the challenges he faced in life and how he was determined to overcome them...It's an exhibilarating tale of self-reliance as teh main ingredient to success and happiness!!!"
To be fair, Frank only politicizes seven or eight non-political stories a week on there, so it's not a real habit. Solid guy. Glad the program is in business with him.
October 6th, 2011 at 1:29 AM ^
But he is a perfectly fine announcer. UM is in good hands with him. At the very least he is better than Criqui.
October 6th, 2011 at 10:58 AM ^
His radio show should disqualify him from broadcasting UM games. It is not right to separate the two entities since they are both public personas under the same name working in the same medium.
October 6th, 2011 at 6:32 AM ^
It was at Michigan, I think, during engineering orientation. First time I sat down at an Apple computer.
Suffice to say I was blown away, my previous experience with computers having been limited to DOS based stuff (yes, I'm old).
Was an Apple fan for a long time afterwards, currently trying to talk myself out of buying a new iMac (while I still like Apple I'm also cheap, erm, frugal).
October 6th, 2011 at 9:33 AM ^
Since I have had a Mac since early high school (and my school had Apple's before that), I am not sure I would be as computer savy (which isn't much) or interested in technology without Steve Jobs and his contribution to both computers and technology. Thank you Steve for all that you have provided to all of us over the years.
October 6th, 2011 at 9:38 AM ^
Sad day, hope Apple can keep producing great tech. Valla con DIOS Mr. Jobs.
October 6th, 2011 at 9:50 AM ^
I myslef lost my Mom to cancer and it seems today you cant talk to anyone that hasnt been affected by this disease....RIP Steve
October 6th, 2011 at 2:55 PM ^
Most cancers of the pancreas are an carcinoma cell type and have a dismal prognosis. Steve Jobs had an islet cell cancer of the pancreas, which overproduced a gut hormone like glucagon or insulin. And is not so quickly lethal. Sad to hear about his death, since he has been such power influence in all our lives. It is ironic to think th web began on NeXT computer at CERN