Tribute To Steve Jobs: a 21km Apple Logo in Tokyo

An anonymous reader writes "To pay his tribute to Steve Jobs, Joseph Tame, a media producer and a marathon runner from Tokyo, ran 21 kms in 2 hours — starting from the western side of the Imperial Palace, across to Roppongi, through Omotesando, then up to Shinjuku. The leaf is in Kagurazaka, and the start/finish point just by the entrance to Yasukuni Shrine. The route, when mapped, shows the famous Apple logo in the center of Tokyo."

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Re:He didn't die.

[hairyfeet]

I have a question, which I'm sure to get hate over but WTF it has always struck me as weird....why? I mean I could understand a Mac during the PPC days, there were some things that supposedly PPC ran better, no real worry about bugs because those were all written on X86, but now? now it is just a REALLY expensive Intel laptop. I haven't seen anything on one I couldn't get for cheaper with better specs.

The iPad, iPhone, and iPod? i don't have any of those but I GET IT, again non standard hardware with Apple UI equals win. The closest Android competitors frankly just haven't gotten the Apple smooth and seamless thing down. maybe by Android 6 they'll have it, but not yet. And while I love my sandisk frankly i'll be the first to admit that butt simple UI it ain't, nothing like an iPod. hell my mom could work one of those with no manual.

So I just don't GET it. Anybody who has the tech skills to read /. can follow a fucking google page and make a Hackentosh if they have a hard on for OSX that badly, and get better specs along with a free license for Windows for dual booting while they are at it. So why pay crazy Apple prices for less powerful hardware? i just don't see the appeal, unless you are one of those "keep up with the joneses" types that care more about flashing a label than anything. if that is the case fark is that way.-->

Re:He didn't die.

[jedidiah]

> The closest Android competitors frankly just haven't gotten the Apple smooth and seamless thing down.

It doesn't have anything to do with "smooth". It's about getting basic core features right. Apple doesn't get basic core features right. If you use your phone for anything remotely "productive", you will likely find Apple's tendency to forget the power user a problem. Despite of all of the hype surrounding "Apple design", they can't quite seem to manage accommodating slightly less trivial use cases.

Entirely too many people buy into the idea that "Apple does it right" without actually bothering to check the basic facts of their assumption/