# Apple Honors Steve Jobs: Dear God Why? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 28, 2014, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apple-honors-steve-jobs-dear-god-why/682472 "2014-02-28T01:58:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apple-honors-steve-jobs-dear-god-why/682472/21 "2014-02-28T04:55:37Z")
> [@LarkingPot](#): > > Eh, nowhere near as bad or ludicrous than the idiots who had candlelight vigils in front of all the Apple stores or laid flowers in front of the Apple stores when Jobs died. Jobs would have sneered at all those people and rightfully so, as he played them for the suckers they are. What does this have to do with the statue being ugly? ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apple-honors-steve-jobs-dear-god-why/682472/22 "2014-02-28T05:37:06Z")
No 3 wolves, 1 moon, black mock turtleneck shirt? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apple-honors-steve-jobs-dear-god-why/682472/23 "2014-02-28T06:56:02Z")
Hey, at least it’s got genitals. I can imagine little Pez candies shooting out. They’re even the right shape. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apple-honors-steve-jobs-dear-god-why/682472/24 "2014-02-28T09:13:48Z")
How much did the guys who commissioned this really like Jobs? This almost looks like revenge. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apple-honors-steve-jobs-dear-god-why/682472/25 "2014-02-28T09:26:43Z")
Come on who hasn’t wanted to see Steve Job’s head on a stick. I’m sure that Bill Gates was happy to pick up the tab for this. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apple-honors-steve-jobs-dear-god-why/682472/26 "2014-02-28T09:58:27Z")
> [@don\_t\_ask](#): > > Come on who hasn’t wanted to see Steve Job’s head on a stick. > > I’m sure that Bill Gates was happy to pick up the tab for this. I was thinking Jeff Dunham. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Barchetta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/da6949/32.png) [@Red\_Barchetta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Barchetta)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apple-honors-steve-jobs-dear-god-why/682472/27 "2014-02-28T10:06:43Z")
Kill it with fire! ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apple-honors-steve-jobs-dear-god-why/682472/28 "2014-02-28T10:34:47Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > What does this have to do with the statue being ugly? more and more, i’ve started to notice this. posts that only make sense when you consider that they’ve only read the _title_ of the OP, and not the OP nor the thread itself. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apple-honors-steve-jobs-dear-god-why/682472/29 "2014-02-28T11:31:14Z")
> [@shijinn](#): > > more and more, i’ve started to notice this. posts that only make sense when you consider that they’ve only read the _title_ of the OP, and not the OP nor the thread itself. Right. When I first opened the thread I thought the OP was going to be about wondering why Apple would honor Jobs. Then I read the OP, clicked the link etc and got it. ---
**Author:** ![DataX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@DataX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DataX)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apple-honors-steve-jobs-dear-god-why/682472/30 "2014-02-28T12:59:01Z")
I hate to pile on - as it seems a little mean, but there has to be something else going on here. Doesn’t there? One of the linked pages from the link claims that there was sketches and photos sent. I don’t know if that means photos of that piece or not - if it was - why the need for sketches. It sounds like they might not have seen this “actual” version. Does that maybe make sense as to how this would be possible? ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apple-honors-steve-jobs-dear-god-why/682472/31 "2014-02-28T13:09:56Z")
I dunno, why do people pay millions of dollars for art that is basically paint randomly sprayed on a canvas, or one solid color? People have really fucking strange ideas of what constitutes ‘art’, and I think at least half of them only value that sort of thing because other people tell them it is ‘art’. I mean, they could make a Steve Jobs piece as this monstrous large Octopus/Cthulhu-oid statue with his raging head upon a 30’ high mass of writhing tentacles which scared the holy fuck out of everyone who approached it, and the believers would pass it off as a metaphor about how Steve had a hand in every aspect of our lives with his inventions (which weren’t really HIS inventions for the most part). ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apple-honors-steve-jobs-dear-god-why/682472/32 "2014-02-28T15:21:59Z")
> [@smiling\_bandit](#): > > [Sorry for the link problem. I reported my mistake.] Fixed. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apple-honors-steve-jobs-dear-god-why/682472/33 "2014-02-28T15:49:22Z")
> [@koeeoaddi](#): > > Favorite comment: “Apple’s new pez dispenser.” or a tall, thin [Herma](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herma) with a Captcha instead of a penis. ---
**Author:** ![ThisUsernameIsForbidden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b4bc9f/32.png) [@ThisUsernameIsForbidden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisUsernameIsForbidden)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apple-honors-steve-jobs-dear-god-why/682472/34 "2014-02-28T15:53:39Z")
Bwahahah! Poetic Justice. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apple-honors-steve-jobs-dear-god-why/682472/35 "2014-02-28T16:46:44Z")
I actively disliked Jobs, and I still don’t approve of this. They could at least have done a better job on the likeness, to make it visually clear who they were mocking. > [@Chronos](#): > > Wouldn’t it have made more sense to put Jobs’ likeness on top of it, instead of Lakuta of Borg’s? “Locutus” \ ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apple-honors-steve-jobs-dear-god-why/682472/36 "2014-02-28T17:34:36Z")
I’m guessing they’re going into the brewing business and this will be the tap handle for ihop beer (and pancakes). ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apple-honors-steve-jobs-dear-god-why/682472/37 "2014-02-28T18:15:53Z")
Meh. It’s “art.” ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apple-honors-steve-jobs-dear-god-why/682472/38 "2014-02-28T18:22:02Z")
> [@Balance](#): > > I actively disliked Jobs, and I still don’t approve of this. They could at least have done a better job on the likeness, to make it visually clear who they were mocking. It’s just a small scale model, not the the finished piece. Not that I like the thing, but I’m sure the final one will look more like jobs. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apple-honors-steve-jobs-dear-god-why/682472/39 "2014-02-28T18:32:13Z")
I was far more impressed with the video link below the story - of the Chinese artist doing work with paper - now THAT was spectacular! They should have hired that artist. Steve Jobs loved simplicity in design and style. I am not a big Apple fan, but I have to admit - design was always the main reason I did like Apple products. This statue is anything but simple and clean. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apple-honors-steve-jobs-dear-god-why/682472/40 "2014-02-28T18:36:10Z")
I never met Jobs personally (although I was cut-off by him on the freeway once, and for that, I carry no grudge), but I know a lot of people who personally knew him and he treated them all like crap. From being a kid until working at Apple. If you’ve got to have a statute of your company founder, at least this one is honest. He was an ugly guy. On the inside. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apple-honors-steve-jobs-dear-god-why/682472.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apple-honors-steve-jobs-dear-god-why/682472.md?page=3)