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[jade_sabre]

Steve Jobs passed away yesterday.

So Facebook clued me in, although I had to scroll a ways to get to it, and I am just, like, in shock. I don't even use Apple products. Macs annoy me, and I've never even used iTunes, much less an iPod. But still. What.

My dad said, when he stepped down as CEO in August, that he had basically worked until he had created the computer he'd always wanted to create. Once upon a time when Dad and I were making an eight-hour road trip to visit a college, he gave me a long and detailed lecture about the history of the computer industry, which included things like "crazy Steve Jobs wanted to make a computer with no mouse or keyboard! yeah that was nuts." ("Also people were just taking the code for Windows and running it backwards and marketing it as a completely different product, 'cause there weren't any copyright laws in effect yet.")

but hey! look at the iPad.

Wild.

Rest in peace, Mr. Jobs.

Comments

[beth-shulman.livejournal.com]

Hang on, did I miss something important? WHAT is your location?

(Oh how off topic this comment is.)

[elle-winters.livejournal.com]

SAME HERE. Never used but STILL.

[brandy-painter.livejournal.com]

I know right. The very first computer I ever used (at my elementary school) was an Apple. I don't use Macs either because they annoy me and they are just too expensive. However, my ipod is attached to my person in some way at all times.

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

You don't use iTunes? No iPod? WHUT?

jadejadejade did you get my email last week?

[tiegirl.livejournal.com]

Have not broken into Apple either, myself. No ITunes, IPod, whatever, but Steve Jobs was an inspiring man. I have always thought that Macs and I would get along so well, because I think they're much more intuitive than PC's for people who have not grown up with windows (may I get on my 'I hate windows' soapbox here?). The one issue I have with Apple products is the repair aspect.