Steve Jobs is dead! A sad day for hipster douchebags everywhere!

[Prelate Diogenes Shandor]

Steve Jobs is dead. A sad day for hipster douchebags everywhere (apparently also for people so old that they can still remember back to when Steve Jobs and Apple Computers actually had real innovative ideas), but not for me , I can't stand Apple, and couldn't care less that Mephistopheles finally decided to collect on his end of their bargain.


Anybody else have any opinions?


EDIT: on rereading this while not so sleep-deprived I suppose this does seem to be a bit unduly harsh towards Steve Jobs. Just because his death will hurt the hated Apple corporation doesn't change the fact that by the standards of CEOs of major corporations he was a relatively decent guy.

EDIT: Also, just found out that apparently the Westboro Baptist Church doesn't like him, so I guess that's another thing in his favor.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I'm not normally a sensitive flower, but I think this is a real douchebag thread. Fuck off.

[Prelate Diogenes Shandor]

Too soon?

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Too soon?

Too inhumanly callous. DIAF.

[Penumbral]

I don't like Apple either. In fact I have boycotted them my whole life, but Steve Jobs himself isn't the embodiment of evil. I am not going to celibate his death. I was happy when Bin Laden was finny killed, but all the people getting exited over an entrepreneur's demise has me for the first time actually feeling bad for the guy.

I'm not a sensitive guy. I'll laugh at a good joke about the guy, but being happy that someone is dead is a little too callous for me.

[Salty]

I don't care about the guy one way or another really.

But the least you could have done was try to be funny about it. But you didn't. You didn't try.

Also, for better or worse, many of those products have changed the way people use and think about computers. All kinds of people use those things, so many people. Not just hipster douchebags

[Freeky]

Too soon?

Too inhumanly callous. DIAF.

Pretty much this.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I don't have any particular warm feelings for Steve Jobs, nor do I have any problems with using Apple products (what's to hate? It's not like they're made from the bones of starving infants. Just don't buy them) but the man didn't perpetuate evil, he was a successful entrepreneur who contributed tremendously to the growth of technology, and FFS he died of cancer at 56. I mean, you want to dance on his grave for some reason, but my suggestion is that if you're that big of a prick you should have the courtesy to keep it to yourself because most people with, you know, normal non-sociopathic empathy will be put off by it. There are a lot of truly evil people in the world, and the "I'm so jaded I'm gonna celebrate the death of a guy who was part of a historically major innovative team in the tech world" hipster douchedom you just pulled here is really, in my Discordia, just loathsome.

[Freeky]

Why are you even bothering with this guy?  I mean, other than the cheap yuks.  He's pretty much demonstrated that he's a non-entity, as far as I am concerned, and pretty much the worst kind of guy who I don't actively loathe (which is a different beast from hate).

He's a nothing, empty space behind keyboard somewhere.  Who cares?

[Prelate Diogenes Shandor]

I don't care about the guy one way or another really.

But the least you could have done was try to be funny about it. But you didn't. You didn't try.

Also, for better or worse, many of those products have changed the way people use and think about computers. All kinds of people use those things, so many people. Not just hipster douchebags

His company's innovations are all very good, but lately they've been moving away from innovation and towards cheap tacky overhyped trendiness (and cheap knockoffs of the Blackberry misrepresented as novel and innovative products); and their early groundbreaking innovations are cheapened by the fact that they never improve upon them (for example, Macintosh computers were still shipping with one-button mice by default as recently as 2005). That said, I suppose that it is grossly unfair of me to lay all of the faults of Apple Computers entirely on Steve Jobs.

[Kai]

10/5 NEVER FORGET! KEEP THAT APPLE FLYING!

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Why are you even bothering with this guy?  I mean, other than the cheap yuks.  He's pretty much demonstrated that he's a non-entity, as far as I am concerned, and pretty much the worst kind of guy who I don't actively loathe (which is a different beast from hate).

He's a nothing, empty space behind keyboard somewhere.  Who cares?

Yeah, I think I'm with you. Especially after reading his last post. Who the fuck cares how many mouse buttons Macs were shipping with six years ago? This dude's a chump.

[Freeky]

Why are you even bothering with this guy?  I mean, other than the cheap yuks.  He's pretty much demonstrated that he's a non-entity, as far as I am concerned, and pretty much the worst kind of guy who I don't actively loathe (which is a different beast from hate).

He's a nothing, empty space behind keyboard somewhere.  Who cares?

Yeah, I think I'm with you. Especially after reading his last post. Who the fuck cares how many mouse buttons Macs were shipping with six years ago? This dude's a chump.

Seriously, this guy's posts are like solid blocks of fail that I can't even bring myself to read, because I might get more stupid the more I try and understand.

Also, he says foolish things too frequently, and I have better things to do than argue with fools.

[Pæs]

I was going to disagree with you until you reminded me that those mice don't have enough buttons. I hope his whole family is eaten by cats.

[Salty]

I was going to reply. I did. I had this big thing about this and that.

Then I deleted it, ate some beef, and peed.

wait...

(and cheap knockoffs of the Blackberry misrepresented as novel and innovative products)

Are you talking about the iPhone? Are you saying the iPhone is a knockoff of a Blackberry?
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