# Steve Jobs dies **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 5, 2011, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-jobs-dies/598733 "2011-10-05T23:40:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-jobs-dies/598733/81 "2011-10-06T02:07:14Z")
I and my wife have owned: PowerBook 520 b/w iMac grape iBook white MacBook black (in use) 4 iPods (3 in use) 1 iPod Nano 1 iPod Mini (in use) 1 iPod Touch (in use) 2 iPhones (in use) Big influence on my work and home life since 1988 ---
**Author:** ![JayRx1981](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/71e660/32.png) [@JayRx1981](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JayRx1981)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-jobs-dies/598733/82 "2011-10-06T02:23:00Z")
Link: [Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs has passed away](http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20111005-716763.html) Whatever your thoughts and feelings about Apple, it’s products, and it’s co-founder, this is a sad day. Thoughts and prayers to Steve’s family. Rest in peace Steve. Your products have revolutionized the way we use technology and you will be remembered well for it. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-jobs-dies/598733/83 "2011-10-06T02:24:13Z")
[Yes, we heard about this a few hours ago.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=626863) Please search first. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-jobs-dies/598733/84 "2011-10-06T02:27:07Z")
Merged **JayRx1981** ’s thread into the older one (on top of a previous merge). ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-jobs-dies/598733/85 "2011-10-06T02:35:36Z")
A three year old iPod and iTunes purchases are the extent of my Apple patronage and I know nothing biographical of him other than what was in the movie _Pirates of Silicon Valley_ (which wasn’t a flattering portrait of him to put it mildly but I’ve no idea how accurate or authentic a depiction that was) but I can appreciate the magnitude of the loss nonetheless. I felt similar when Michael Jackson died- I never bought any of his music or even downloaded any from Napster or free sites, but through osmosis you knew the Earth should tremble and storms should swallow a couple of small cities. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-jobs-dies/598733/86 "2011-10-06T02:37:23Z")
The world is a little less fun this morning. We shall never see his like again. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-jobs-dies/598733/87 "2011-10-06T02:43:06Z")
I was one of a whole shitload of Boy Scouts who got a free really nice Apple ][C sized grey soft briefcase back in 1984 just because. He helped make Pixar happen. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-jobs-dies/598733/88 "2011-10-06T03:02:11Z")
I was out to dinner when my husband showed me the apple homepage on his phone. Just a photo of Steve and the years of his birth and death. Hit me kind of hard, even though I rather despise Apple. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-jobs-dies/598733/89 "2011-10-06T03:31:43Z")
What a loss ☹ I’ve been an Apple fan all the way back to the IIe and IIc, I’m an Apple Authorized tech, and even though I’m more of a Woz fan, I’m saddened by this loss to put it in the words of another dearly departed and deeply missed Mac fan… “So long, Steve, and Thanks for all the iFish…” I think I’ll shut down my G4 tower and iPhone 4 for the rest of the evening as a silent tribute to an Insanely Great man, his Reality Distortion Field may fade, but his memory will live on in the products he loved so much ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-jobs-dies/598733/90 "2011-10-06T03:35:33Z")
iGrieve. I never owned an Apple product until my iPhone. I’m still a Windows user, but I appreciated Steve’s vision. He brought personal computing into everybody’s reach. And the iPod became even bigger than the Walkman. Pixar’s movies have been an incredible amount of fun, too. He changed the world so much in his short life. ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-jobs-dies/598733/91 "2011-10-06T03:41:24Z")
I was quite surprised this morning at how sad I felt at Steve Jobs’ passing. My first real computer was a Mac Plus (can’t count the TRS 80), went PC for a while and am now back using a Macbook Air. He’s definitely made my life a lot easier and a whole lot more interesting. ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-jobs-dies/598733/92 "2011-10-06T03:42:26Z")
I owe Steve the best 25 years of my career. Even though I spent most of those years as a Windows programmer, having a MacII got me out of mainframe programming for good. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-jobs-dies/598733/93 "2011-10-06T03:45:23Z")
> [@Chicken\_Fingers](#): > > My first computer was the Mac, in 1984. What a marvel it was. RIP Steve Jobs. Hear, hear. My very first computer, roughly one bazillion years ago, long before Macs were well integrated enough to be computers for everyday use, was an Apple. So it goes… ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-jobs-dies/598733/94 "2011-10-06T03:48:29Z")
The first computer I ever used was a friend’s Apple II in 1979. The first computers I used regularly were the Macintosh 512K and Macintosh Plus computers at my university in 1986. Over the next few years at college, I used the Mac SE/30, the Mac II, and the Mac IIcx. I even played around with a NeXT computer. The only computers I have ever personally owned have been Macintosh computers. In the mid- to late 1990s, I actually considered permanently switching to a PC, but around that time, Steve returned to Apple and revitalized the company. I haven’t looked back since. Hopefully his successors can continue his legacy. I (along with my wife and son) have owned: [ul][li]Macintosh IIsi (1990)[/li][li]Power Mac G4 (2000)[/li][li]Mac Pro (2008-still in use)[/li][li]MacBook Pro 13-inch (2010-still in use)[/li][li]iPod 3G (15 GB)[/li][li]iPod 3G (20 GB)[/li][li]iPod 5G (30 GB)[/li][li]iPod nano 1G (2 GB)[/li][li]iPod nano 2G (8 GB)[/li][li]iPod Touch 4G (32 GB)[/li][li]iPhone 4 (16 GB)[/li][li]iPhone 4 (32 GB)[/ul][/li] I got the news of Steve’s death on my iPhone, and I’m writing this now on my Mac Pro. Rest in peace, Steve. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-jobs-dies/598733/95 "2011-10-06T03:52:49Z")
Like the fellow said, I didn’t even know he was sick. Yikes. That really is sad. Good on him for all he accomplished. I’m not going to get closure on this until I read a eulogy for him written by Stephen Fry, who [had this to say about Jobs, his company and his products](http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1977113-1,00.html) about eighteen months ago. ---
**Author:** ![Uzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/91b2a8/32.png) [@Uzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uzi)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-jobs-dies/598733/96 "2011-10-06T04:05:20Z")
You know what really worries me about all this, is that if a guy with ~8 billion dollars can’t find some third world body donor to get his brain transplanted into what hope do the rest of us have?..😉 ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-jobs-dies/598733/97 "2011-10-06T04:14:09Z")
My first computer was an Apple IIGS; after years of PCs, I finally bought a MacBook this year. Oh, and my iPod…I would go crazy at work without it. RIP, Steve. ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-jobs-dies/598733/98 "2011-10-06T04:14:24Z")
Yeah, I made the big move to an iMac in 2008, but I would have done it a lot faster if I’d had the cash. The first computer I saw that wasn’t putty-colored was a white Mac in the late 80s, and the candy-colored ones were fun to look at too. I learned of his passing sitting in a little park this warm autumn night in Chelsea off 7th Avenue, having just left a friend’s (non-digital) art gallery exhibit opening. Some white wine, then some pizza to go, then what the heck, it’s nice enough to sit outside, turn on the Nokia wi-fi spot and then the little iPod Touch to check my e-mail and Twitter–oh yay, that idiot Palin isn’t running–wait, what? Oh no. ☹ Tweet after tweet after tweet, some from major news outlets linking to stories they’d obviously had ready for years, but the most moving from celebs and ordinary folks just sharing a thought on how Jobs’ work had changed their lives for the better. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-jobs-dies/598733/99 "2011-10-06T04:27:18Z")
I knew he was incredibly ill when he stepped down six weeks ago. I was shocked when I saw the news of his passing. An innovator. A visionary. He changed how we use technology in immeasurable ways. Rest in peace Mr. Jobs. ---
**Author:** ![gnarlycharlie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5f9b8f/32.png) [@gnarlycharlie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnarlycharlie)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-jobs-dies/598733/100 "2011-10-06T04:31:41Z")
RIP Steve Jobs. you were a visionary and an inspiration. i still remember the first computer i ever used, an Apple IIc. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-jobs-dies/598733.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-jobs-dies/598733.md?page=6)