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Steve Jobs To Appear On US Postage Stamp
Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes "Steven Musil writes at Cnet that the US Postal Service hopes Steve Jobs can do for it what he once did for Apple as the late Apple co-founder will be featured on a commemorative US postage stamp along with Johnny Carson, Ingrid Bergman, Elvis Presley, and James Brown. The former Apple CEO's stamp is still in the design stages and will be released at some point in 2015. Jobs, who passed away in 2011 after a battle with pancreatic cancer, has also been posthumously honored for his visionary achievements with a special Grammy Merit Award and a Disney Legends Award. Jobs was also inducted into the Bay Area Business Hall of Fame, has had a building at Pixar named after him, and was featured in an exhibit at the US Patent Office Museum. "The profitable first class mail business has been decimated by email over the past decade, thanks in no small part to the contributions of Steve Jobs and Apple," writes Derek Kessler. "It's no small feat to be so impactful that the USPS feels compelled to honor you despite the fact that the work that you've done is dismantling the core of their business.""
... the stamp will be a little bit more expensive than usual and it comes only in 2 colors.
Everyone can give his backside a lick.....
I was going to mention that Rod Serling needed a stamp, too. There's been a petition since 1988. But apparently he finally got one in 2009, so we can finally send our mail to... The Twilight Zone.
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The email client that comes with Mac OS X and iOS both kind of suck. I'd say Apple has contributed very little (relatively) to superceding snailmail.
I use Mac OS at work, and after various laughable problems, I ended up having to replace Apple Mail with Thunderbird, just to get basic 1990s functionality.
Stamp will cost $4, do the same thing that $0.49 stamp does but have stylistic design. If anything goes wrong, you throw the whole letter out and buy a new one based on someone else's refurbished mail. If you mention this bad experience online, ten thousand Steve Jobs fanboys attack your inbox with gay pornography to "open your mind."
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Considering that apple out-sourced all of their manufacturing overseas, it seems that China and not the USA should be the ones honouring Steve Jobs with a stamp.
Alternatively, if the USPS wants to honour Steve Jobs in a historically accurate way, they could design the stamp in the USA, have China produce the stamps, and then sell those Chinese made stamps to Americans.
Maybe they'll be OK with the stamp DRM'ed.
"The likes of Facebook and WhatsApp are free to those whose privacy is of zero value."
USPS, put out a bieber stamp - ships anything and everything to Canada, no questions asked, no return accepted.
Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.
Yes, let's honor a "man" who was a billionaire who refused to acknowledge his daughter's existence for 17 years, while she and her mother lived paycheck to paycheck. While this was going on, he named a computer after her.
never use stamps anyways
ac as I've been moderating, but I think the first of these should be for Jon Postal. But as a networking tech, I'm probably biased. Although I would think it somewhat difficult to beat the possible alliterations possible.
shouldn't Woz be on a stamp for whatever technological and contribution to progress the Apple systems have made?
Dennis Ritchie, the creator of the C Programming Language, along with Ken Thompson, co-creators of the UNIX Operating System, Brian Kernighan, and many, many others, laid the groundwork for ALL Operating Systems, and technology that followed. Linux, all flavors of UNIX, Android, etc... lead the world in O/S's, NOT Apple.
Steve Jobs would still be a amateur Geek in his garage if it were not for all the Giants of the industry that came before.
Considering that they only died 6 days apart, where is Dennis's stamp?
Dennis's home page: http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/dm...
why do I have to look at that garbage and waste my time changing back to default. It is so ugly and poorly designed. I hope whoever made it reads this comment and cuts their wrists.
AC signing out.
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coincides with the celebration in central park.. what's this about??? http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=scott%20olsen&sm=3
iPhone? iMac? iPod?
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You would have to use a proprietary Apple envelope, or the stamp wouldn't stick.
The Apple envelope would be prettier than a regular envelope, but cost twice as much, too.
Uh, Linux geek since 1999.
How about a Dennis Ritchie stamp? Or Douglas Engelbart? John E. Karlin maybe? They all recently died as well. Anyone? No? Nobody knows who they are because they spent their time actually inventing instead of whoring for attention and taking all the credit to satisfy their nacissism? Damn.
Huh? What the hell did Apple do for e-mail (beyond what every OS/application developer has done)? "OMG, they make computers, therefore, all things done on computers are their responsibility!"
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Plenty of fans out there who would queue up to lick the backside of those.
Just asking...
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He died the same year, and was way more important than Steve Jobs.
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if Apple will sue the USPS for copyright infringement? Cause we all know Steve created the first postage stamp and I'm sure Apple has a patent for it somewhere.
Gold Plated turd syndrome ... could get the Post Ofice system out of its bankruptycy.
Can even have the stamps be made by slave-wage laborers in China
So has Bugs Bunny and Mickey Mouse, amongst other cartoon characters.
(1) iStamp must be licked left-to-right;
(1)(a) laterally licking a non-iStamp stamp is grounds for patent infringement;
(2) any information derived from user (e.g. DNA) will NEVER be shared with third-parties (subject to exceptions below);
(2)(a) exceptions include but are not limited to: response to law enforcement requests; business servicing (e.g. billing purposes); or as required in iStamp's sole discretion to protect the intellectual property rights of iStamp;
(3) iStamp will only function when affixed to iEnvelope;
(3)(a) note: iStamp 2.1+ requires iEnvelope2;
(4) intrastate delivery requires enrollment in the iStamp development kit;
(4)(a) iStamp development kit licensing fee is $99/year;
(5) iStamp not available for sending donations to nonprofit organizations; and
(6) iStamp will leave a very bad taste in your mouth.
Absolutely agree - Jobs is the antithesis of a "good" business leader (or a "good" person for that matter).
You might appreciate my "iStamp" comment below (above?).
They're making a stamp for someone who pioneered devices used for smart marketing. Can't we give one to someone whose pioneering work in agriculture is being used to feed more people in impoverished nations? Clearly this is a popularity contest.
Still pushing the envelope.
I am Audience.
Didn't know re-inventing the wheel multiple times and hyping good-looking, yet terrible 'innovations' means you're worthy of being on a stamp, but okay.
Now they can lick the backside of Steve Jobs.
Others can place him on the envelope skew; maybe tear an edge... then pound it with their fist just to "make sure it is attached."
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I'd rather have a Bill Gates stamp. This image is way better than whatever piece of crap photo Steve Jobs would get. http://www.neowin.net/forum/up...
because you're licking it wrong.
I wouldn't know which side to spit on.
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Jimi Hendrix has my vote.
This is getting ridiculous. The man didn't invent the internet or even really make the personal computer popular, both of which are far more responsible for the downfall of the USPS than what has been, for the vast majority of its existence, a niche hardware manufacturer. He's not the fucking messiah of the digital age that everyone is treating him as.
I'm assuming that I should be in line a couple of days early.
It will be coming out in 2015 so they can attempt to settle all the naming disputes this will cause.
iStamp ... you should see the package it comes in!
So there.
Carson? Big entertainer, loved by tens of millions for decades.
Bergman, Presley, and Brown -- same thing.
Then there's the odd man out. A man who bought out companies and technologies, refined and repackaged them, and made obscene amounts of money selling the resulting products.
Why, precisely, are we celebrating Jobs? Despite the ravening and vocal fanbois, it's not like he was anywhere near as loved and famous as Carson, et. al. He was just a lucky business man, not an icon adored by millions.
I do not fail; I succeed at finding out what does not work.
Jobs was an abusive, egotistical, thieving scumbag who threatened his competitors with illegitimate patent litigation if they didn't participate in his scheme to fix employee salary.
Unfortunately he died before he could be put in a prison cell, — he certainly doesn't belong on a postage stamp.
Not only did he revolutionize the PC, but he also. . .
Was the first to map the Human Brain,
Made Linux possible,
Invented solar panels,
Invented insulin,
And wrote, "Toy Story".
He's a pioneer! Steve Jobs is like Batman!
He's doubleplusgood!
By that standard it should be a Steve Wozniak stamp.
HE'S DEAD!!! Hahahahaha... Ahhh. The Narcissist missed his exaltation hahahahaaa. Oh, and, there was no way they could ever put his whole head in an image...... Hard enough for it to fit through a door.
I think the work done by Ritchie is how a twerp like jobs got anywhere. texting? Ritchie.. IMing? Ritchie... Why weren't you throwing scads of cash to him?
just like Elvis, voting for Fat Steve or Skinny Steve?
Anyone who makes something similar will get sued.
When you lick it, it will taste like toe jam!
will we have a contest for the old steve jobs or the young one?
No doubt a picture of his arse for "fanbois", or whatever they're called, so they can lick and stick.
ROTFLMAO! That is easily the best comment I've read yet!