R.I.P. Steve Jobs

[Flexstyle]

http://www.apple.com/stevejobs/

Anyone else as shocked (and yet somehow not) as I am?

You pour THAT MUCH of your life into one thing and it's gotta shorten your lifespan. However, who else just kinda thought he'd always be around? Regardless, he changed the world, and I have to respect him for that.

Rest in peace, Mr. Jobs.

[Arek the Absolute]

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/steve-jobs-apple-ceo-dies/story?id=14383813

Like Apple or not, the man made a huge impact on the world.

Cancer has taken yet another victim far too soon from us.

[BardicKnowledge]

Both ABC and NPR have compared him to Thomas Edison -- I would suggest that Jobs' legacy was even further reaching. It's tragic that someone who contributed so much to our society (the personal computer, the first digital goods platform, and countless other innovations) is gone.

[Gario]

Woa, hey... Shit, I just heard about him resigning due to health reasons. That happened pretty damn quickly.

Not an apple person today, but it's what I grew up on. R.I.P., my man.

[Brandon Strader]

They're going to bury him in an Apple iCoffin

[Jason Covenant]

As I said on FB, Steve was instrumental in creating the first mouse-based computer interface. If it weren't for him, it's unlikely we'd have the DAW's that we have now. May he rest in peace.

[ectogemia]

Ohshit.

My iPod is an orphan now

Seriously, though, this guy enabled some major technological breakthroughs and was able to fight pancreatic cancer (!) for quite a while. Quite an impressive life.

[zircon]

Merged offtopic thread with Community thread. Also, I don't think him working really hard had much to do with it... cancer does not discriminate

[Piracy]

https://twitter.com/#!/ap/status/121730495347294208

http://abcnews.go.com/

[Piracy]

[Dyne]

He was a great man, a profound visionary, and will be missed by all those who knew him, or knew of him. I wish he would have had many more years ahead, sadly, it's not to be.

Rest in peace, Mr. Jobs.

[ectogemia]

Merged offtopic thread with Community thread. Also, I don't think him working really hard had much to do with it... cancer does not discriminate

Chronic stress --> enhanced intracellular oxidation --> endogenous mutagenesis --> higher likelihood of developing cancer.

I bet his lifestyle had quite a bit to do with his disease, but bleh, sucks he had to go out that way, and it was a 7-year-long, protracted battle with a cascade of organ failures to boot. The guy had serious balls (and vision, too, I guess) to trudge through something that debilitating to keep heading to work every day.

[Benjamin Briggs]

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[Frederic Petitpas]

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[djpretzel]

An inarguable icon; I have this feeling we'll be studying the effects he had on the software/computer/IT industry 30 years from now, easily... I don't agree with a lot of business policies, or implicit value, of Apple products, but they have definitely changed the world.

[Avatar of Justice]

I'd say popularizing the PC, mp3 player, and smartphone is a pretty good life's work. RIP to the coolest CEO.

[OceansAndrew]

Definitely a visionary, packed several lifetimes worth of achievements into just one. Nice Work, Steve, RIP.

[Patrick Burns]

For about 18 years, most of the important activities in my life have in someway been connected to certain Apple products. For better or worse, Apple has had a big effect on me.

interesting how Steve Jobs has been of interest to people through many different lenses: technology/design, business insight, management style, image power, etc.

[DarkeSword]

One of the most influential people in the field of personal computing—and by extension, how we live our every day lives. Very, very sad news.

Thanks for everything Steve. :\

[Nonamer]

I've never felt this shocked since hearing bin Laden was killed. I have reacted to a President's death more calmly (for me Reagan and Ford).

Under his reign, he has seen the rise of the mp3 player (iPod), a strong competitor to the then-dominant Windows (Mac OS X), the birth of the smartphone (iPhone), and the birth of the tablet (iPad). It will be interesting to see how Apple takes off without him.

RIP Steve.

PS If you have Apple stocks, I would not sell them tomorrow. It's not worth the losses. Apple will emerge better.

[JH Sounds]

[luhny]

RIP, Mr. Jobs

[Modus]

He reunited art and technology after we kind of forgot they could and should go hand in hand.

And I'm also in a little shock he's gone. I've never really felt much from a "celebrity" death until Jobs here. He seems like someone who my generation grew up with for so long.

[Crulex]

Thank you, Steve. May he rest in peace.

[Level 99]

I've never been an Apple fanatic, however I do own and use some Apple devices. The company, and Jobs himself, have had immeasurable impact on the technology and business world. Innovation to computers, consumer electronics, management, marketing, product handling, and so on, can all be attributed to Jobs and the company he started and helmed for the majority of his life. While I definitely did not agree with some of his policies implemented into the devices he helped craft, I have a deep respect for someone who approached technology with such innovation and fervor for creativity. Jobs didn't just step outside the box: he lived outside of it.

And any CEO who actually answers fans email directly gets bonus points in my book.

This is a loss for the technology world on a massive level.

Anyone who played Oregon Trail on an Apple machine at all in their lives owes Steve Jobs some form of respect.