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- starvo, on 01/16/2009, -0/+12http://isSteveJobsAlive.com
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http://isSteveJobsDead.com - shutaro, on 01/16/2009, -0/+11I think he inherited Steve's Black Turtleneck of Charisma +5.
- kefkastudio, on 01/16/2009, -2/+8Doesn't he look a little bit like Ryan Stiles? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Stiles
- MacParrot, on 01/16/2009, -4/+9Between Cook running the business side and Ives on the design side, Apple should be just fine. With dropping out of Macworld, the charismatic presentations that Jobs was so famous for won't be nearly as important as just releasing good products. The press continues to be enamored with Apple based on how little information is put out on future products ahead of time and I see little change in that arena. Hey it works well and builds up (sometimes impossible to satisfy) giddy anticipation of what's coming. Apple is currently in good hands.
- Dumbledorito, on 01/16/2009, -1/+6Not shoes. Turtleneck. Get it right.
- andy78, on 01/16/2009, -1/+6I love how the same illness that sent apple's stock tumbling is also the thing causing the most publicity for the company. Major news outlets are talking about apple, Stern, two top stories of the day on digg, and countless front page articles.
I predict that if Steve dies it will only make apple an even bigger icon with the mystique of his death. Steve will become the first Hendrix of the tech industry... - eatinshramps, on 01/16/2009, -2/+6Hope he likes his new iShoes.
- Mo0eY, on 01/16/2009, -0/+4Thanks for that image in my head, jackass.
- Darkyuubi, on 01/17/2009, -0/+4While Steve is the face of the company, everyone do realize that Cook is the one who turns Apple's ideas and visions into bucket loads of money right?
The man Being the COO already runs most of the company anyways. So really, I'm not exactly sure what the problem is.... - babyheadout, on 01/16/2009, -1/+5I try to watch a Steve McQueen movie before a date to temporarily bring up my charisma.
- Mo0eY, on 01/16/2009, -1/+5Me and that other guy.
- inactive, on 01/16/2009, -3/+6The description is very homosexual, if you glance at the words. Passion, table top, pounding, screaming. WTF?
- CeruleanRed, on 01/17/2009, -0/+3But, does he throw chairs?
- mrBitch, on 01/17/2009, -0/+3Whether Jobs recovers or not, I stil don't get how little boys like "wbuffet" are so upset about a company that keeps building gadgets and computers that are just so much BETTER than anything else on the market.
wbuffet, you rant about "rabid zealots" so often and continue to cry and scream and sob pitfully on almost every apple thread on digg.
wbuffet, It's pretty obvious to me that the only "rabid zealot" here is you. - darylspong, on 01/16/2009, -0/+3Wrong story!
- ethana2, on 01/16/2009, -0/+3"Apple Inc. founder and chief executive Officer Steve Jobs is prone to fits of passion, table pounding and screaming."
Pssh, he can't even throw chairs? - Sithlrd, on 01/16/2009, -1/+4Welcome to the big time, Mr Cook. War Eagle.
- antechinus, on 01/17/2009, -1/+4No it won't, Chairman Jobs is very close to having a working version of iCure.
- kingnutty, on 01/17/2009, -0/+3he's already got the outfit, with an upgrade on that outdated-as-a-G3 turtle-neck.
- ejrizo, on 01/16/2009, -0/+3although that was low... it was funny.
- danj484, on 01/16/2009, -0/+2I can has relevent description?
- inactive, on 01/16/2009, -1/+3Gayness and Apple go hand-in-hand. Angry, feeling repressed, complex and will trade favors for a used ipod.
- BrendanSheehan, on 01/16/2009, -0/+2or
http://www.isItChristmas.com/ - inactive, on 01/16/2009, -1/+3Table tops makes you think about gays? It must be interesting when you're in a restaurant.
- buckrogers1965, on 01/17/2009, -0/+2It would annoy me a lot if one of these assnhats that run a company threw a tantrum around me.
- kitsua, on 01/16/2009, -1/+2That guy is so great. A giant of Who's Line Is It Anyway?
He should be in more stuff. - scratend0788, on 01/16/2009, -3/+4so it a wasent steve balmer?
apple fans must be kicking themselves - ejrizo, on 01/16/2009, -2/+3whats going at apple that got them "itching" both in that pic. lol
- Gankfest, on 01/16/2009, -1/+2Rumour has it it's a fairly petite turtleneck these days though.
- cleber, on 01/16/2009, -2/+3What does the title has to do with the description?
- nichojo, on 01/16/2009, -2/+3War Eagle!
- jo21, on 01/17/2009, -1/+2dead please.
- tk4two1, on 01/16/2009, -1/+2I was thinking the exact same thing
- poutch, on 01/17/2009, -0/+1at least this one doesn't have a mullet
- mrBitch, on 01/21/2009, -0/+1@ mithfen RE: " Skepticism is healthy."
I agree completely, and I have been quite a vocal "skeptic" (as well as a developer with a focus on Windows as the main target platform to develop on).
Ubuntu did show me, however, how a better designed OS on the SAME HARDWARE could out perform Windows.
Over a year ago I bought my first ever Apple product.
I never had an iPod, or anything else sold by Apple until then.
I originally bought the MacBook Pro because the laptop had quite a few features that were only just starting to show up on other laptops.
I was also curious about OSX, since I had such a good run with Ubuntu (OSX based on BSD flavour of Unix, while Ubuntu was based on a Linux distro known as Debian).
I was fully expecting that I would only boot into OSX when in "learning" mode, and would do all of my other computer work under the Windows boot partition that I had installed on the MacBook.
It's now over a year later, and I only boot into Windows to play a few casual games of TF2 or ET.
Windows is my games OS.
OSX is the OS I do ALL of my other computer work on.
I now understand WHY there is this strange group of Apple "fanboys" since the hardware and the OS work SO WELL together. - buckrogers1965, on 01/17/2009, -0/+1I think it is more the sense of entitlement they feel that they deserve that would annoy me most. So the average asshat would not piss me off as much.
- techguru2006, on 01/16/2009, -3/+3He'd better take some charisma classes.
- z00k, on 01/16/2009, -2/+2It would be so much cooler if his mom played Age of Empires.
- mrBitch, on 01/17/2009, -1/+1So, if an asshat that does NOT run a company throws a tantrum around you, then this would NOT annoy you?
- techdever, on 01/16/2009, -3/+2Tim Cook: The Man in Steve Jobs' Turtleneck
- inactive, on 01/20/2009, -1/+0The main reason people get upset with Apple is because of their blind following. Steve Jobs is the man to be mad at if that's the case; he's a marketing genius and it shows. You're a perfect example of his intelligence! I can't help but laugh when I think about how unlikely it is that you can backup your claim of Apple "building computers that are so much better than anything else on the market." I hope you understand that Apple's grasp on the computer market is extremely minimal - on top of that, there is nothing they're doing to the actual hardware that sets them aside from any other manufacturer. Yet, that same hardware is more expensive than the prices on standard PC's because it comes inside a plastic box that looks "cool". The core of a Mac is its O/S: a well designed, user friendly, stable, operating system with a bunch of neat proprietary software. Unfortunately, that same functionality exists on machines that you can purchase for 225 dollars. I invite you to compare even the most decked out PC to a mid level Mac. An operating system is *not* worth that added inflation; the industry shows us perfect evidence of that which is why they control approximately ~3% of the computer market (p.s. that's not a lot).
They sell walkman's (ipods) and they sell them damn well. They even combine those walkman's with telephones and sell them for hundreds of dollars then ask that you pay over 1500 annually in order to gain full potential out of the device. This is their market, they dominate it. However, continued success is up for debate...the "inventor" of the iPod left (no, it wasn't Steve) to retire and now Steve Jobs is stepping down from running the company all within the last 3-4 months. Succession has never been pretty at Apple, I don't see why that would change now after losing two extremely key players.
CASE IN POINT...Apple is not innovative, they are adaptive. They recognize market trends, capitalize on them, and somehow convince everyone that they invented the industry they compete in. I swear...in 5 years Apple is going to land on the moon, name the place iLunar or some BS and somehow everyone will forget about Neil and the boys and suddenly Steve Jobs will be the first man on the moon while solving global warming with a modded iPod.
Skepticism is healthy. - inactive, on 01/16/2009, -5/+3Dear Rabid Zealots, as hard as you try, your little company is about to go down the toilet. I find it hilarious that you are desperate to find a 'new' overpriced white plastic messiah. You even go so far as to try to glorify this idiot's fits of anger. Enjoy the ride down. Asshats.
- NinjaGod, on 01/16/2009, -12/+7Who cares?
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