[Scape]

http://thewirecutter.com/2011/10/steve- ... n-asshole/

[Tricks]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

xerxes xerxes:

Too soon mate. Too soon.

No, it isn't. This turd is being lionized in the media as if he were a saint when he managed to go to the front of the line for a liver transplant that a cancer patient should never have qualified for in the first place. Of course, his money had nothing to do with that.

My question is this: who was the person on the transplant list who died so Steve Jobs could buy a few more months of life?

THIS!

I'm sick of people making this guy out to be fucking Jesus. His company makes mediocre products at an excessive price and capitalizes on the stupid.

[RUEZ]

Tricks Tricks:

I'm sick of people making this guy out to be fucking Jesus. His company makes mediocre products at an excessive price and capitalizes on the stupid.

It was bad enough when they did it to Jack Layton.

[canuckns]

Tricks Tricks:

THIS!

I'm sick of people making this guy out to be fucking Jesus. His company makes mediocre products at an excessive price and capitalizes on the stupid.

Yes sir. On my way to work today people had put candles out front of the apple store, and notes, like they knew him personally. These apple fanbois really need to get a life.

[Scape]

IBM clones in 1984 were state of the art?
Cell phones in 2006 were state of the art?

No. They were crap. Apple forced everyone to step it up.

Jobs is not god but he's on par with great minds who changed the way the world works.

[Tricks]

Scape Scape:

IBM clones in 1984 were state of the art?
Cell phones in 2006 were state of the art?

No. They were crap. Apple forced everyone to step it up.

Jobs is not god but he's on par with great minds who changed the way the world works.

Really!? You were in the R&D teams of other companies at those times!?

[RUEZ]

Scape Scape:

IBM clones in 1984 were state of the art?
Cell phones in 2006 were state of the art?

No. They were crap. Apple forced everyone to step it up.

Jobs is not god but he's on par with great minds who changed the way the world works.

IBM and the clones that followed brought home computing into the average home. The iPhone was nice but wasn't the Blackberry more of a technological jump for cell phones? The one thing Jobs was very good at was putting style into his products.

[Scape]

Tricks

Show the cell phones and compare them for yourself.

Ruez

Hardware is important and apple inovated with the opticsl mouse we still use today but they also made software user orientated and not made by and engineers that were slaves to command prompts. Something the pc world would not master till windows 95 and even then it was buggy. Remember windows 98/me?

[Tricks]

Scape Scape:

Tricks

Show the cell phones and compare them for yourself.

Android was in the works before the iPhone came out.

[Scape]

You're dodging the question.

[Thanos]

RIP and all that, but morons holding candlelight vigils outside of Apple Stores is sincerely one of the most retarded things I've ever seen in my entire life.

[Regina]

Tricks Tricks:

I'm sick of people making this guy out to be fucking Jesus. His company makes mediocre products at an excessive price and capitalizes on the stupid.

Dude!! +5

[bootlegga]

Scape Scape:

IBM clones in 1984 were state of the art?
Cell phones in 2006 were state of the art?

No. They were crap. Apple forced everyone to step it up.

Jobs is not god but he's on par with great minds who changed the way the world works.

I don't know if I'd agree with that - PCs might not have been state of the art, but neither was the MacIntosh. I was in high school when they came out and despite everyone romanticizing the now, they were no more powerful than the PC clones they were supposed to replace. The user interface might have been cool to look at, but there was ZERO software for them and learning to use a mouse was a difficult task back then. Sure, by the early 90s, Macs were powerful and easy to use, but the early Mac technology was just as difficult to use as MS-DOS was.

As for cell phones, the only real difference between the iPhone and the Blackberry was a touch screen - which is cool, but not revolutionary IMHO.

Jobs was CEO of Apple, and I think he frankly gets too much credit for "creating" all these devices. The fact is he never created any of Apple's iconic devices - the GUI was developed by Xerox in the 70s, the mp3 player developed by god knows who years before the iPod came along, the tablet was first developed in the 90s by Palm, and the smartphone developed by RIM.

What Jobs (and his team at Apple - I seriously doubt he alone came up with all those devices) was brilliant at was taking existing technology and thinking of a way to make it even more user friendly and then adding a unique style to it.

[bootlegga]

Tricks Tricks:

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

No, it isn't. This turd is being lionized in the media as if he were a saint when he managed to go to the front of the line for a liver transplant that a cancer patient should never have qualified for in the first place. Of course, his money had nothing to do with that.

My question is this: who was the person on the transplant list who died so Steve Jobs could buy a few more months of life?

THIS!

I'm sick of people making this guy out to be fucking Jesus. His company makes mediocre products at an excessive price and capitalizes on the stupid.

Yeah, Steve Jobs was a brilliant guy, but he was also a jerk at times. Look at what he did to Wozniak or how he refused to accept that his daughter was his own (at one point even claiming he was sterile ).

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/technolo ... 30955.html

[Tricks]

Scape Scape:

You're dodging the question.

Fine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Touch

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N95

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry_Pearl

All comparable to the first iphone. The Nokia especially, considering it had functions the iPhone still doesn't have.

$1:

Its capabilities include[1][2]: a Global Positioning System receiver with maps and optional turn-by-turn navigation; a 5 megapixel digital camera with Carl Zeiss optics, flash, video recording and video conferencing; wireless connectivity via HSDPA, IrDA, 802.11x and Bluetooth; a portable media player with the ability to download podcasts over the air; a FM Radio tuner; Composite Video output via included cable; multi-tasking to allow several applications to run simultaneously; a web browser with support for HTML, JavaScript and Adobe Flash; messaging via SMS, MMS and e-mail; Office suite and organizer functions; and the ability to install and run third party Java ME or Symbian mobile applications.

This phone was out the year before the iphone, and was doing more than the 3gs 2 years later.