No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It’s life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. – Steve Jobs
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. -Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs and his company is as GDI as you can get. Look at every hipster, skater, etc out there, they all have MACS. No self respecting top 500 company would use a Mac. If you truly think that macs are better in any way, shape, or form, go ask your dad what he uses at his company. He’ll tell you PC and for you to take a lap for even asking that.
Apple is actually on that list of top 500 computers and I bet they use Apple computers at Apple. Just because a company uses geed computers doesn’t make them not self-respecting. Take a lap
1.The majority of apple’s parts are made outside of the U.S. and they have “designed in California” written on every fucking product. I guess California and paying foreigners instead of providing jobs for Americans is FAF now.
2. Yeah, step into a real company like Shell, Halliburton, Wedbush, etc and go look for their Mac lab. I guess having an incompatible paperweight is FAF too huh.
3. Tablets are really useful. I love having something that’s slower than my phone and has less functions than my laptop. But, being hipster and pulling out your Ipad at the drum circle is being TFTC.
4. And no you stupid fuck, my dad doesn’t run apple and I’m sure your dad does.
I respect Steve Jobs, just not his company cause of they way they conduct business. Either way I’m not going to waste anymore of my time on this subject.
I do not own a Mac, nor do I plan to own one, because I prefer the PC. I don’t like the culture that surrounds Apple products. But that doesn’t mean I don’t respect what Steve Jobs did with that company, and the way they do business. They were in the shitter when he took over, and a decade later they have a stranglehold on the laptop, desktop, and smart phone market, and in essence created the MP3 player and tablet market. Traditional powerhouse PC manufacturers have been tanking in the past 5 years, largely in part due to the success and popularity of Apple products. Ever see any IBM laptops at Best Buy anymore? Why don’t you google “HP stops making computers” and see what pops up? Better yet, here you go: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=HP+stops+making+computers
There’s a little place in California called the Silicon Valley, have you ever heard of it? It’s the cradle of technology in this country, so it makes sense that Apple would be from there. And you can bet your ass that 90% of products designed by the engineers and computer scientists that work in every one of the companies in that region, including PC makers, are not produced/assembled in the United States.
And you’re plain ignorant if you think Macs are “incompatible paperweights.” For several years now, Windows operating systems have been compatible with Apple computers (via products called Parallels, Boot Camp, etc.), as is the entire Microsoft Office suite, and any other self-respecting software product. For now, PCs are the most economical hardware option available, but it’s simply a matter of time before more companies make the switch. The simple fact that your dad has a 4-year-old HP desktop at the office doesn’t make it the best option.
Finally, regardless of their functionality, tablets as we know them today didn’t exist before Apple invented them. It doesn’t matter if you think they’re worthless, because millions of other people don’t, and are willing to shell out hundreds of dollars to play Angry Birds on a bigger screen.
So if you think running a business so successfully that…
(i) people go batshit crazy to buy your products as soon as they debut, no matter how trivial the “improvement”
(ii) you destroy your competition so badly that they throw in the towel
(iii) you invent stuff for shits and gigs and wind up creating a brand new market
…is doing it wrong, I wouldn’t want to be right, either.
Anywho, I’m pretty sure this building is fucking haunted and/or a drunk hobo is trying to beat down the door, and my addy is wearing off, so good day to you, sir.
Not to undermine the validity of this post, but the biggest company in the world is Walmart, followed by ExxonMobil and then Shell. Apple actually doesn’t show up on that list until number 119, behind Hewlett-Packard (29), IBM (57), Sony (68), and Microsoft (106). Apple may make good products, but the fact that it is consistently twice as expensive as the competition and caters to the hippie, creative movement is NF.
Look at the market caps: XOM>AAPL as of close yesterday. So not largest employer, market cap, or highest revenue = Apple’s not the world’s largest company.
Growing up rich, inheriting your wealth, and living off a trust fund will always be FAF, but you’d be lying if you ever said that it wasn’t just as frat if not frattier to go from not having much to being one of the richest men in the world. He may have worn dad jeans and turtlenecks, but Steve Jobs embodied the American fucking dream. His detractors may all go to hell, and I will continue to use my Macbook.
Sorry, I should have said he ditched Wozniak, as in rejected the idea of working with him in the 1990s, when Wozniak helped him out his whole career prior to that.
R.I.P. Steve, without you, we probably wouldn’t be able to judge fratiness through the internet.
14 years ago at 8:42 pmThis fucking guy.
14 years ago at 10:42 pm^^ yes
14 years ago at 6:26 pmTo everyone who’s posting “NF”, let’s not forget that he has a hot SAE son.
14 years ago at 8:44 pmHaving a Greek son never made any difference in a NF debate. Get with it, kitchen dweller.
14 years ago at 12:16 amSerena, i can smell your herpes from here. back off
14 years ago at 7:08 am^ agreed.
14 years ago at 8:06 amClose those legs Serena. It’s smelling like fish over here.
14 years ago at 12:26 pmNo one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It’s life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. – Steve Jobs
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. -Steve Jobs
14 years ago at 8:51 pmSteve has given us a lot of new things.
And we can all learn from his view on big choices. We will all be dead soon.
14 years ago at 8:53 pmHe quit one of his first jobs to backpack across India and take psychedelic drugs. That, Jobs said, helped shape his creative vision.
14 years ago at 8:12 amSteve Jobs, the man, the myth, the amazing. RIP
14 years ago at 8:53 pmthe legend himself
14 years ago at 11:26 pmSteve Jobs and his company is as GDI as you can get. Look at every hipster, skater, etc out there, they all have MACS. No self respecting top 500 company would use a Mac. If you truly think that macs are better in any way, shape, or form, go ask your dad what he uses at his company. He’ll tell you PC and for you to take a lap for even asking that.
14 years ago at 8:53 pmHey fuckstick, your dad doesn’t run Apple, does he?
14 years ago at 8:59 pmApple is actually on that list of top 500 computers and I bet they use Apple computers at Apple. Just because a company uses geed computers doesn’t make them not self-respecting. Take a lap
14 years ago at 9:19 pmhttp://m.readwriteweb.com/archives/apple_92_of_fortune_500_are_testing_or_deploying_i.php
14 years ago at 9:22 pm1.The majority of apple’s parts are made outside of the U.S. and they have “designed in California” written on every fucking product. I guess California and paying foreigners instead of providing jobs for Americans is FAF now.
2. Yeah, step into a real company like Shell, Halliburton, Wedbush, etc and go look for their Mac lab. I guess having an incompatible paperweight is FAF too huh.
3. Tablets are really useful. I love having something that’s slower than my phone and has less functions than my laptop. But, being hipster and pulling out your Ipad at the drum circle is being TFTC.
4. And no you stupid fuck, my dad doesn’t run apple and I’m sure your dad does.
I respect Steve Jobs, just not his company cause of they way they conduct business. Either way I’m not going to waste anymore of my time on this subject.
14 years ago at 10:10 pmLet’s get some shit straight, inhoc:
I do not own a Mac, nor do I plan to own one, because I prefer the PC. I don’t like the culture that surrounds Apple products. But that doesn’t mean I don’t respect what Steve Jobs did with that company, and the way they do business. They were in the shitter when he took over, and a decade later they have a stranglehold on the laptop, desktop, and smart phone market, and in essence created the MP3 player and tablet market. Traditional powerhouse PC manufacturers have been tanking in the past 5 years, largely in part due to the success and popularity of Apple products. Ever see any IBM laptops at Best Buy anymore? Why don’t you google “HP stops making computers” and see what pops up? Better yet, here you go: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=HP+stops+making+computers
There’s a little place in California called the Silicon Valley, have you ever heard of it? It’s the cradle of technology in this country, so it makes sense that Apple would be from there. And you can bet your ass that 90% of products designed by the engineers and computer scientists that work in every one of the companies in that region, including PC makers, are not produced/assembled in the United States.
And you’re plain ignorant if you think Macs are “incompatible paperweights.” For several years now, Windows operating systems have been compatible with Apple computers (via products called Parallels, Boot Camp, etc.), as is the entire Microsoft Office suite, and any other self-respecting software product. For now, PCs are the most economical hardware option available, but it’s simply a matter of time before more companies make the switch. The simple fact that your dad has a 4-year-old HP desktop at the office doesn’t make it the best option.
Finally, regardless of their functionality, tablets as we know them today didn’t exist before Apple invented them. It doesn’t matter if you think they’re worthless, because millions of other people don’t, and are willing to shell out hundreds of dollars to play Angry Birds on a bigger screen.
So if you think running a business so successfully that…
(i) people go batshit crazy to buy your products as soon as they debut, no matter how trivial the “improvement”
(ii) you destroy your competition so badly that they throw in the towel
(iii) you invent stuff for shits and gigs and wind up creating a brand new market
…is doing it wrong, I wouldn’t want to be right, either.
Anywho, I’m pretty sure this building is fucking haunted and/or a drunk hobo is trying to beat down the door, and my addy is wearing off, so good day to you, sir.
14 years ago at 1:39 amSharing Hank Hill’s opinions on California. TFM.
14 years ago at 1:46 amI have a PC, and when I clicked on the first news link about his death my Windows session crashed. Well played, Steve.
14 years ago at 8:55 pmIt was his endgame.
14 years ago at 8:57 pmWell, you know. No Jobs are safe under Obama.
14 years ago at 9:04 pm^punny
14 years ago at 9:09 pmge is the world’s largest company
14 years ago at 9:06 pmNot to undermine the validity of this post, but the biggest company in the world is Walmart, followed by ExxonMobil and then Shell. Apple actually doesn’t show up on that list until number 119, behind Hewlett-Packard (29), IBM (57), Sony (68), and Microsoft (106). Apple may make good products, but the fact that it is consistently twice as expensive as the competition and caters to the hippie, creative movement is NF.
14 years ago at 9:08 pmApple is actually the most valuable traded company in the world. Others might be “bigger,” but it’s winning the stock market.
14 years ago at 9:21 pm“Biggest” can be measured in a number of ways (employees, revenue, assets, etc). Apple currently has the largest market cap in the world though.
14 years ago at 10:50 pmnot the worlds largest company you fuck
14 years ago at 9:23 pm^wrong
http://www.slashgear.com/apple-becomes-worlds-largest-company-today-09170497/
14 years ago at 9:51 pmLook at the market caps: XOM>AAPL as of close yesterday. So not largest employer, market cap, or highest revenue = Apple’s not the world’s largest company.
14 years ago at 10:12 pmGrowing up rich, inheriting your wealth, and living off a trust fund will always be FAF, but you’d be lying if you ever said that it wasn’t just as frat if not frattier to go from not having much to being one of the richest men in the world. He may have worn dad jeans and turtlenecks, but Steve Jobs embodied the American fucking dream. His detractors may all go to hell, and I will continue to use my Macbook.
RIP Steve Jobs. You will be missed.
14 years ago at 10:33 pm^This fucking guy.
14 years ago at 12:15 amSteve Wozniak made Jobs what he is. He rode Wozniak’s machine to success, then fucked Wozniak over in the 90s, and ditched Apple.
14 years ago at 5:18 amWell played. Living out the sole meaning of the American dream. FaF
14 years ago at 9:17 ampiker, he didnt ditch apple, he was fired as part of the re-management… read a fucking article you fuck
14 years ago at 2:57 amSorry, I should have said he ditched Wozniak, as in rejected the idea of working with him in the 1990s, when Wozniak helped him out his whole career prior to that.
14 years ago at 8:18 am