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Farewell, Steve Jobs

Posted Oct 5, 2011 at 10:04PM EST by Ryan F.

Listed in: News Tags: apple, Steve Jobs

A very sad day in the tech world today as Apple confirmed the news that its visionary co-founder Steve Jobs has passed away at age 56.

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Just yesterday, everyone was ecstatic with the company's "Let's talk iPhone" event, as they've unveiled their latest hardware, the iPhone 4S. Sadly, that excitement turned to grief today.

"We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today," the company’s board of directors said in a statement.

"Steve’s brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The world is immeasurably better because of Steve.

“His greatest love was for his wife, Laurene, and his family. Our hearts go out to them and to all who were touched by his extraordinary gifts,” the statement reads.

Jobs has been battling cancer in the recent years of his life. He stepped down as Apple's chief executive last August. For all of us here at the QJ headquarters, we say farewell and thank you... Steve Jobs.

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now ive had plenty to say in the past, maybe i didnt like his products, but damn this is truly sad news, respect to him for staying at his job so long and so close to the end, I feel bad for all the jokes about him quitting and stuff, heartfelt feeling go out to all his family and friends, and any trolls take a break for once don't turn every death into an excuse to show how small minded and pathetic you are

# R.I.P. — Lee12663 2011-10-05 23:49

You will be miss Mr. Jobs
iR.I.P.

+2 # RE: Farewell, Steve Jobs — gil 2011-10-06 00:53

damn im usually not an apple(android is cool) kind of guy but u dont have to be a fanboy to know this is sad

# RE: RE: Farewell, Steve Jobs — thepariah4231 2011-10-06 02:28

I feel terrible because I refuse to buy an iPhone. I'm sad he's gone.. he will be missed..

# RE: RE: Farewell, Steve Jobs — Andy Mitchell 2011-10-06 02:39

I agree. While I'm not a fan of Apple tech, I know that without it, we may not have what we have today. They were good competition for everyone else and they made some dam good looking s**t!

RIP Steve.

# RE: Farewell, Steve Jobs — .................. 2011-10-06 01:55

RIP Steve, you will be forever missed.

-2 # RE: Farewell, Steve Jobs — PS360 Owner1 2011-10-06 03:17

Let's see if this means they'll stop with the ridiculous over-versions of one product.

iPhone 1
iPhone 2G
iPhone 3
iPhone 3G
iPhone 3GS
iPhone 4
iPhone 4S

Next iPhone 4GS? No, iPhone 5? Darn!

Same goes for iPad.

But yep, it's sad he passed away, nonetheless.

# RE: Farewell, Steve Jobs — Mabie A. 2011-10-06 06:07

he was a true innovator, somebody who revolutionized how we communicate and interact with each other. it's a rare opportunity to have someone like him grace our lifetime with this kind of presence. he's done much more than any of us could have. rest well, mr. jobs.

-4 # RE: RE: Farewell, Steve Jobs — PS360 Owner1 2011-10-06 08:14

Mabie, are you fucking serious? Steve a true innovator, someone who revolutionized? LOL, you must've been high while writing this crap, seriously..

+1 # RE: RE: RE: Farewell, Steve Jobs — thepariah4231 2011-10-06 10:21

The question is mate, are You fucking serious? If all you know about Steve Jobs is that he was the CEO of Apple and he made the iPhone, you're too young to post here. Fuck off.

# ... — TheRockness 2011-10-06 10:48

You fucking imbicil. Go read a book.

+1 # RE: RE: RE: Farewell, Steve Jobs — thepariah4231 2011-10-06 11:30

I'll also just add, Mabie didn't write this. Check the top, dipshit.

-4 # RE: RE: RE: RE: Farewell, Steve Jobs — PS360 Owner1 2011-10-06 13:11

You bunch of Apple cocksuckers.

By the way, pariah, I replied only to Mabie's comment not the article, you dumbfuck.

+1 # RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: Farewell, Steve Jobs — thepariah4231 2011-10-06 22:18

lol, I'm not an "Apple cocksucker".

The only product of Apple's that I own is an ipod touch that I won from the local gaming arcade. I wouldn't spend hundreds on an ipod.

But, that aside, I know how much of an impact Steve Jobs has made in the computing industry, and if you did your research instead of being such an ignorant faggot, you'd know too.

# RE: RE: RE: Farewell, Steve Jobs — AkaiOtoko 2011-10-06 15:19

I'm pretty sure he was partly responsible for OS' which ended being in almost every household.
Revolutionized? I think so.

Also just because Apple has overpriced items, you shouldn't write carppy comments on a farewell page about a dead person, even if that person had been evil(not saying Jobs, just in general).

# RE: Farewell, Steve Jobs — unknown1 2011-10-06 06:49

farewell to you steve..

+1 # RE: Farewell, Steve Jobs — lordrand11 2011-10-06 07:46

He was definitely a helluva salesman.

+1 # RE: Farewell, Steve Jobs — Mickle 2011-10-06 08:07

I always criticise the Hell out of Apple but without them we'd still be using crappy Symbian type phone OS, huge windows based tablets & no real structure to downloading digital media, and yeah maybe things would have got like this eventually, but this guy almost single handedly improved the gadget world for the better.

+1 # RE: Farewell, Steve Jobs — Beansta 2011-10-06 10:18

symbian wasnt bad, id take a nokia N95 8gb over an apple iShit anyday...their APIs used too much juice but thats just poor memory usage that is

while i hate apple with a passion (as i do with anything thats considered 'in fashion'), mr jobs did do a remarkable job turning the company around like he did.

farewell

# RE: RE: Farewell, Steve Jobs — Mickle 2011-10-06 10:43

Symbian isn't exactly bad, it's just over 10 years it's hardly changed or improved in any way, and actually OS9 with that annoying signing you have to do makes it worse and so restrictive that developers stopped bothering creating for it.

-1 # RE: Farewell, Steve Jobs — bla 2011-10-06 10:58

lets not forget he was also a founding member of pixar animation you ***wholes without him we never would have seen toy story 1 or 2 or any other beloved pixar classics.and another thing he was a founder of apple sooo ya he was awesome without him we would see no ipod touch (or any ipods ) and the iphone which made touch screen phones cool lets face it before the iphone nobody had a touchsreen phone they didnt invent the tech or anything they just made it awesome.oh and android just isnt the same i think its just what poor people buy cause they cant afford real phones

+1 # RE: RE: Farewell, Steve Jobs — thepariah4231 2011-10-06 12:12

I'm not a fanboy of anything but I'll go so far as to say that Android has the best market share over iOS for various reasons.

Poor people? Not at all. We just know better than to waste cash where we needn't.

# RE: RE: RE: Farewell, Steve Jobs — bla 2011-10-06 17:04

umm you didnt state one reason ... wierd

# RE: RE: RE: RE: Farewell, Steve Jobs — thepariah4231 2011-10-07 03:12

Want reasons? Android is far elss restrictive, you can do virtually anything you want with it. With iOS you need to jailbreak it to do anything at all, and even after that the most you can really do is change how it looks; something native Android supports happily.

You can do far more on Android than you can on iOS.

# RE: RE: RE: Farewell, Steve Jobs — Other 2011-10-06 17:43

That's because there's millions of Droid devices and only 1 iPhone. Android is cooler, but iPhone is easier to use for those oldies.

# RE: Farewell, Steve Jobs — DJ PON-3 2011-10-06 12:26

I can see memes being made out of this right now.

RIP.

# RE: Farewell, Steve Jobs — keith_ 2011-10-06 22:03

so now that Glorious Cult Leader is gone, maybe Apple will finally adopt the USB cable like everyone else on the fucking planet...

# RIP — wakaka 2011-10-06 23:31

i dont own any apple devices but still Jobs did a good job innovating technology as we see today
e.g. (i)First GUI on PC by Apple (he was sacked during this period but he founded it anyways)
(ii)IEEE1394 aka Firewire which still widely used in SLR cameras
(iii)a semi-reliable 1st touchscreen phone that can be used using fingers instead of a 'pen'
and whatever 'first' things that he inspired

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