I doubt this is a dig at Jobs, but it might be a dig at the selection committee.
I’m going to go out on a limb here, and say that the selection committee was not composed of the best and brightest of Apple’s graphic designers. They’re too busy working on the next iWidget to waste time on picking out statues for the Apple campus. The committee was probably made up of HR people. And, (and this is just a guess) probably the HR people who didn’t have something more important to do. Note that the article says that the committee’s final selection is being sent to Cupertino “for approval.” So the art selection committee doesn’t actually have the authority to select any art.
I half suspect that what we’re looking at is the final result of an artist exasperated with dealing with a bunch of corporate idiots. The one and the zero, in particular, I suspect were placed there specifically in reference to the Greek tradition of putting genitalia on these sorts of statues, as described in Slithy Trove’s link. It looks like a pretty good case of getting something past the censors. I’m not sure what the Cyrillic lettering is meant to be, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re the Serbian equivalent of “FU.”
No kidding. I use Apple products at work and at home and they’ve come a long way since the System 7, 8, and 9 days. But I have always been convinced that what success Apple has had was in spite of, not because of Jobs, and quite frankly I was embarrassed at the deification in the press by people who should know better. Especially in contrast to the attention paid to the passings of Dennis Ritchie and Jack Tramiel.
Yes, considering the eloquent RIP logo that a fan came up with. I bet I could randomly choose one of the other 10,000 entries without seeing it and get a better response.
I knew enough about Jack Tramiel to know that despite his flaws, he was an amazing man, prior to the Commodore 64 and later Atari. His home consumer hooked to the TV idea of computers was giant.
