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Well, sorry for his friends and family, but the chap hardly created AIDS vaccines, did he? He manufactured clever little gizmos without which the world would have kept turning quite well. And he wasn't above outsourcing work to the slave labour economies of the East, including one with conditions so go-awful the workers had to be pressured into signing anti-suicide pledges. Goodbye clever producer of pointless, money-wasting gadgets.

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sultan2075 wrote:You're back! Fantastic. Hope all is well.

Thanks, man. All is...what it is.

You know, in spite of the serious political differences we've had in the past, I must say that I love your sig quote.

Thanks; it's from Chicago's own (late) Allan Bloom, in The Closing of the American Mind.

DeWinter wrote:Well, sorry for his friends and family, but the chap hardly created AIDS vaccines, did he? He manufactured clever little gizmos without which the world would have kept turning quite well. And he wasn't above outsourcing work to the slave labour economies of the East, including one with conditions so go-awful the workers had to be pressured into signing anti-suicide pledges. Goodbye clever producer of pointless, money-wasting gadgets.

Call me a b*stard but I agree. RIP and I feel for his family/friends too etc but this outpouring seems a little OTT.

Maybe the Facebook status of a friend saying "I've been in tears all day, I feel like I've lost an Uncle" made me a little less sympathetic.

DeWinter wrote:Well, sorry for his friends and family, but the chap hardly created AIDS vaccines, did he? He manufactured clever little gizmos without which the world would have kept turning quite well. And he wasn't above outsourcing work to the slave labour economies of the East, including one with conditions so go-awful the workers had to be pressured into signing anti-suicide pledges. Goodbye clever producer of pointless, money-wasting gadgets.

I posted a similar sentiment on another forum & was flamed by a few posters trying to tell me that Jobs had basically changed the world as we know it!.

The guy was instrumental in bringing some clever bits of kit out (presumably some anonymous behind the scenes employes did the actual inventing?) but that's it, isn't it? As good as the Apple kit is, world leaders jerking his memory off & random punters across the globe treating it like the death of a family member!!? I saw some tv footage of candle lit shrines complete with crying adults outside Apple stores.......the world's gone mad.

Jobs (and Apple in general) were very good at developing new products & absolutely phenomenal at marketing them & even then you have to ignore the very barren decade pre 'i era' where they almost went out of business.

I'll happily RIP him, as I would anyone else but the reaction to his death seemed to be the latest Diana/Jade Goody cult of personality mourn fest.

The Onion nails it (as per)

http://www.theonion.com/articles/last-a ... ing,26268/

WTF when did The Onion put up a paywall?

all i remember was his talk on *connecting the dots*

R.I.P mr. Jobs.