Mr. Apple

[maxmomvt]

I have to say, I am sorry Steve Jobs is dead, but not as sorry as the rest of the world, apparently

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[wardo68]

Even as a Mac guy, I was a tad surprised by the outpouring of emotion. As I put it elsewhere, "A good guy. Dying for a while. And now he's dead." And that's about it.

[vancemarr]

A guy I used to work with, who's in his mid-20s now just finished an M.B.A. program. He told me on several occasions that a large number of his classmates and peers were Apple cultists to a humorous degree. They all wanted to do Apple case studies for assignments, it was taken for gospel that Apple was a model corporation that they all wanted to emulate when they got out into the world, etc. So I think to some extent it's sort of like when a rock star dies young at a point where they are still considered cool and the mythmaking and whitewashing kicks into high gear. Jobs just became this decade's Kurt Cobain

[wardo68]

What he said. What I said.