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Steve Jobs Dead At 56
SoCalChris writes "Apple cofounder Steve Jobs was found dead in his Cupertino home this morning. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him — even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon."
Didn't this already happen with his cancer sabatical? And by this, I mean dropping major announcements with no warning and no real explanation? They've done everything they can to make the company a cult of Steve Jobs (I mean, have they ever had *anyone* else doing or even assisting with the product demos on that big, dark stage?), and then when Jobs is sick or changing roles or whatever they fuck around and won't tell people what's actually going on. It's complete fiduciary misconduct, in my opinion, consistently playing coy with or outright withholding the specifics of major changes like this. They're responsible to their stockholders and to their customers to tell people what the hell is really going on. Plus, every time Steve gets a friggin head cold the stock price plunges; they know this by now, and yet they said exactly nothing about why he's moving on this time around. We're forced to wonder whether no news is in fact very, very bad news they're hoping to hide for as long as possible; what if Steve's cancer is back and he's going to die within 6 months, but they're shoving Tim Cook up to the firing squad and hoping he can prove his worth before it happens so that the stock price doesn't *completely* vaporize?
At the time I got modded troll, told to calm down, blah blah blah.
And I was absolutely, 100% right.
Sad new about Jobs. But I sure as hell didn't need ABC to break into the middle of the Double Jeopardy round and give me a fucking seven-minute retrospective of his career, hailing him as the god of all modern technology. If they had to interrupt the great Alex Trebek and one of the only TV shows that matters they could have just mentioned Jobs' death, asked us to tune in for more later, and given me my program back. Dear ABC, you can't felate a dead man, though your efforts were impressive.
...and now NBC has seen CNN and the ABC report and catches up, 30 minutes later.
Damn, I knew I should have moved to the West coast, for the TV schedule of course.
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He put his SOUL into that product... Literally
All the world's a CPU, and all the men and women merely AI agents
Dear Bill Gates:
You've spent your entire lifetime copying Steve Jobs.
Please do exactly that today.
Sincerely,
The World
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I noticed and I don't find it funny at all. And I have been around long enough to recognize the lame and tired meme.
Many Slashdot users looked up to Steve Jobs and came (and more still coming) here to pay a little respect, and to comment about it with fellow nerds and tech-oriented people. I think it's disrespectful to them to present the story that way.
And honestrly, I can't even tell if Soulskill posted this submission on purpose, or if he/she was succesfully trolled, which says a lot about this post-CmdrTaco Slashdot.