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Discussions About Being Bald => General Discussion => Topic started by: Chavster on October 05, 2011, 08:58:46 PM
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...why am I so shocked to hear about the death of Steve Jobs? Its 4am here and I just had a newsflash appear on my computer screen from the BBC.
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It's very sad as he was a revolutionary. I wasn't surprised though because he's been very ill lately and didn't look well.
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We've lost an insanely great innovator and visionary.
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I agree with you both.
I dont know why I'm so surprised, because he obviously wasnt well. Maybe its just a stark reminder that life can be very short. He was only a few years older than me, so maybe I'm just being reminded to live my life to the fullest.
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In case anyone wants to read the BBC news article:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-15193922
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Indeed very sad...he had a big impact on the tech field from a very young age.
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I saw the news on a local post.
they gave him like 20 mins of the time :)
RIP
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Its the top story on all the news channels here. The BBC just had a 30-minute segment about his life.
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The man was brilliant. We've lost a true genius.
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I agree. I've been upset all morning. Obviously I didnt know the guy, but I know how much of an impact he had on my day-to-day life.
And its always sad when the world loses a genius. Whether he was a technological genius or a business genius, either way, he was a genius.
:(
I think I might have to buy myself a gift to cheer myself up :)
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A light went out in this world yesterday. May he rest in peace.
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I agree.
I think the other thing that has been upsetting me about this is that when he resigned from Apple a couple of months ago, he probably knew he only had weeks to live. Obviously there are other people in that same boat, but I cant imagine what that must be like. To go through the day, knowing that in a few short days or weeks, you're going to be six feet under.
How the hell do you spend your last days? I think if it were me, I'd just take an overdose and get it over and done with. I'd go nuts otherwise.
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There are quite a few that have felt like you and have taken that way out. Who is to say what is right or wrong.
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I guess people have to do what they have to do, but for me, I think I'd take the selfish way out, because I wouldnt want to spend my last few weeks in a nut house. If a doctor said to me "you have a month to live", I think I would probably go insane right there on the spot.
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It is a tragic loss for the world. He was truly a revolutionary and visionary thinker!
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My wife and I each have Mac's, iPhone 4's, and she has an iPad, we use a Time Capsule for a router and have AppleTV. He changed the world and I pray he rests in peace. I feel like I've lost a personal friend. Truly a loss. I loved how one of the news casters said "How many people learned of his death on a product he invented?". I did, on my iPhone 4. I know he staffed the upper echelon of Apple with people he knew and trained, I don't worry for Apple, but it will never be the same. I also pray for his family.
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I agree with you totally. I got up at about 4am for a pee (I'm 50) and as always, I took my iPad with me, and thats how I saw the news. There was a newsflash from the BBC website, via the BBC app.
My current list of Apple stuff:
1 x iMac
2 x iPad (3g and WiFi)
1 x iPhone 4
1 x iPod 30gb Video
1 x iPod Touch 4G
1 x iPod Nano
1 x Macbook Air
1 x Macbook
2 x Airport Express
1 x Time Capsule
2 x Apple TV
:o
I believe these things have changed my life. They've certainly changed my bank balance, but they've changed my life, I think for the better. I never met Steve Jobs, but I think I'll miss him.
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Wozniak said this morning, "that it was like loosing a Lennon".
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Hmmm. I think Steve Jobs gave more to the world in a day than John Lennon gave to the world in a lifetime. Just IMOHO obviously.
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http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/apps/cvp/3.0/swf/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed&videoId=tech/2011/10/06/jobs-stanford-commencement-dying.cnn
Good speech with a great message.
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What a big loss. May he rest in peace.
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my prayers go out 2 him, his family, & close friends.
WARHAWK O0
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He was a recluse in many ways and yet his biography will now be released according the news "talking heads" so that everyone, including his kids will know more. And the surprising fact for me was that he was an adopted kid.
I have to say I only own one Apple item, an iPod. Not at all an Applehead. And I have never gone to iTunes much less spent a penny there. Someone must have, he was a multi-billionaire.
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I have to say I only own one Apple item, an iPod. Not at all an Applehead. And I have never gone to iTunes much less spent a penny there. Someone must have, he was a multi-billionaire.
I two Apple items. My iPod and my Macintosh Plus that bought back in 1986. It's sitting on the shelf in my garage. I should probably get rid of it but I hang onto it for nostalgia reasons.
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Just last week I went to town on a paper I wrote focusing on his leadership and contributions...
...really can't believe he is gone.