One of the rich people I actually liked. If Warren Buffet and Noam Chomsky kick the bucket anytime soon, I'll be a sad panda.

/I'm typing this from an iPhone
//:(

I'm a PC, but we'll all remember you for your amazing contributions to computing, consumer electronics and business. RIP Steve.

thats sad

omeganuepsilon: Someone should write a song about it though. Something about a ladder to heaven.

Buddhists don't believe in heaven, so that would be a little odd.

I know it's de rigeur to snark on Apple/Apple users, but I would love to have at least 1/10 of that man's intellect and vision. The things I could do with just that.

/typing this on my Macbook
//listening to my iPod
///if only I had an iPhone for the trifecta

SON OF A biatch. Say what you like about him, his company and the products he created but the guy was a visionary genius. It's really too bad that we won't have whatever he would have created in the future to look forward to.

Not a fan of Apple, but you've gotta give credit where credit is due.

RIP

he's overcharging hipster angels now

In other news black turtleneck sales plummet....

Respect

RIP. Let's just hope Apple doesn't run the company into the ground like the last time they had to pilot the ship without him.

iTorch for convenient cremations.

Now that 'send a card' app makes perfect sense defaulting to 'sorry for your loss'.

Can you say short?

/Too soon?

TheShavingofOccam123: Thanks for Pixar.

That. Pixar has greatly enriched billions of lives.

Rest in peace, Apple Man.

/PC user, Android phone, but two iPods

damn. 56 is too way too early.

Have made quite some hay with his products over the last ~25 years - when I bought a MacPlus w/ the university discount. No hard drive. Had to swap floppies to run an app and then save my working file. I got over it.

Loderunner game FTW then.

Now I love that it's pretty much std unix and can work with all the same class libraries that I use on the experimental compute clusters.

What's mildly depressing to me (still!) is that I had a reasonably significant Ameritrade account at the time that he regained control. Pondered moving everything over to Apple when he rejoined the fold. I knew he'd turn the company around. Knew it. It was at ~14 then IIRC and the hardware they were making at the time seriously sucked. I know, I owned some it. Should've pondered harder. That would've been a power move and I out-thought myself.

Call me a fanboy if you want. I am probably... I'll get over that too. cheers

He was the apple of all our eyes.

MrEricSir: omeganuepsilon: Someone should write a song about it though. Something about a ladder to heaven.

Buddhists don't believe in heaven, so that would be a little odd.

Not a South Park fan huh?

Thank you, Steve. You forever changed my life and the world. You will never be forgotten. Peace and love.

Going to fire up my Mac Portable as a tribute.

/Lead Acid man!

I hate cancer. I really, really do. And there's not much that I really, truly hate.

/former coworker died from it over the weekend
//lost lots of other friends and coworkers from it

"The unswappable battery option has bit them on the ass."

Palin announced she's not running in 2012. Hope she doesn't get fat while campaigning.

Was watching Jeopardy and they cut in to announce this, and Scot Pelley said "we have lost an American Edison..." and I knew right away he was talking about Jobs and then I was like wait, what?

My first computer was an Apple IIc at the age of 14.

/RIP Steve

Thanks, Steve. RIP.

I feel a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.

It's quiet at my store right now...

Lots of sad blue shirts. :(

So...i'm not much of a conspiracy guy but this may explain the lack of the iPhone 5. Stick with me here because it's gonna get a little crazy for a second.

Let's say that Steve Jobs actually passed away yesterday or the day before. Now Apple wouldn't want to announce his passing AND the release of the iPhone 5 because it could hurt sales since some folks may be worried about what will happen to Apple after his death. So they "hide" his death for a day or two and instead of announcing the the i5 like they were going to they announce an "upgraded" iPhone 4. That way if Sales are slow it won't really matter since there's not much of a difference in the phone anyway and probably less demand than there would be for a totally new design. So they'll probably wait a few months to see what the fallout from Jobs death is before suddenly announcing the iPhone 5 only it will be called the iPhone 5SJ in honor of Steve.

Or it could just be a coincidence.

Eather way cancer sucks and thanks Steve for some pretty cool shiat!

iFlatline

Is this too soon??

Enthusiast34: I feel a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices hipsters suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.

FTFY

Well, I guess that proves that cancer isn't caused by a virus.

/veal?

RIP Steve Jobs. Thanks for giving all of us the opportunity to be better than everyone else who didn't own Apple products. :(

That being said, I think he retired from Apple because he knew how serious his illness was. He may even knew that his illness was terminal.

Ugh, fark cancer. >_