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2011-10-05 Science & Technology

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Posted by tipper 2011-10-05 19:51|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 Too young for such a visionary. I am not a huge apple fan but this man deserves a place in history for bringing us into the Star Trek age of gadgets and computers.

You will be missed Steve.

Posted by DarthVader 2011-10-05 20:01|| 2011-10-05 20:01|| Front Page Top

#2 Sad news. I used to be a huge Apple fan. I guess it goes to show that no matter how rich or successful you are, no one can buy good health.

Posted by Scooter McGruder 2011-10-05 20:01|| 2011-10-05 20:01|| Front Page Top

#3 Who didn't know this was coming?

Condolences to his family.

Posted by Barbara 2011-10-05 20:06|| 2011-10-05 20:06|| Front Page Top

#4 Perhaps that,s why the company came out with the iPhone 4S yesterday, instead of waiting until the 5 was ready. Many will miss his creativity and drive to get the right things right.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-10-05 20:09|| 2011-10-05 20:09|| Front Page Top

#5 I'm typing this on my MacBook Pro, with my iPhone and iPod nearby, but let's all remember this tribute to him from NMA:

DarthVader, did he know you personally?

Posted by Eric Jablow 2011-10-05 21:04|| 2011-10-05 21:04|| Front Page Top

#6 mourn a pure example of American entrepreneurship and overcoming a challenging start:

"Steven Paul Jobs was born Feb. 24, 1955, in San Francisco to Joanne Simpson, then an unmarried graduate student, and Abdulfattah Jandali, a student from Syria. Simpson gave Jobs up for adoption, though she married Jandali and a few years later had a second child with him, Mona Simpson, who became a novelist.

Steven was adopted by Clara and Paul Jobs of Los Altos, Calif., a working-class couple who nurtured his early interest in electronics. He saw his first computer terminal at NASA's Ames Research Center when he was around 11 and landed a summer job at Hewlett-Packard before he had finished high school."

Posted by Frank G 2011-10-05 21:19|| 2011-10-05 21:19|| Front Page Top

#7 I didn't know that about Steve Jobs birth and upbringing. Thank goodness there was no Roe v. Wade back then, think of the genius the world would have missed.

Posted by OldSpook 2011-10-05 21:35|| 2011-10-05 21:35|| Front Page Top

#8 And if the old Hewlett Packard had been run like Apple is today, they wouldn't have been able to give him a summer job, because all the production stuff would have been in China.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-10-05 21:45|| 2011-10-05 21:45|| Front Page Top

#9 HP hasnt been run right since Bill and Dave left.

Posted by OldSpook 2011-10-05 23:17|| 2011-10-05 23:17|| Front Page Top

#10 HP hasnt been run right since Bill and Dave left.

A sad thing. Used to be one of the best companies in America. "Management by walking around"

Fifty six seems so young. Snark what you will about the Cult of Apple (I certainly do!), but Jobs was a force of nature, God bless him.

Posted by SteveS 2011-10-05 23:24|| 2011-10-05 23:24|| Front Page Top

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