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Your initial question was basically what did he do that was important to us? And in the above post a huge list of outstanding achievements was put to you. It wasnt good enough, so now for you its the exploitation of workers who make apple products and probably the clothes you're wearing which is the problem.
At a guess, i'd say 90% of everything in your house has been made by workers in far off lands in sweatshops for very little money. Your gonna have to make a lot of threads now aren't you?
And as for social networking sites being a downgrade of personal interaction, I'd like to know another way of having a conversation with someone on the other side of the world, instantly, and for free...
Do me a favor, how many Chinese products do you have around your home? Count them and get back to me.
Who is the hypocrite now?
This is a big problem, not just an apple problem.
Originally posted by thesneakiod
Thats because they probably are? Anyway whats better and easier for playing music on than a ipod?
Iphones and ipods are amazing for their simplicity, people that have them rarely ever change to something else.
No one forces you to buy idevices you know, or to live in a based apple world...but those that do enjoy them.
Is that so wrong?
Originally posted by LordGoofus
He helped invent the Macintosh, which changed computing forever by introducing the concept of a graphical interface and a mouse. Things that we now take for granted... drag & drop, recycle bin and many other features that today you barely even notice.
Originally posted by LordGoofus
He helped develop the Apple IIc which was one of the worlds first small form factor computers and started the path towards what we now know as "laptops"....
Originally posted by LordGoofus
Delivered the first printer capable of using Postscript at the same time that Pagemaker was released. Pagemaker was a massive hit with publishers, and Postscript is still used extensively today by graphic designers and publishers (mostly without them even realizing they are using it).
He bought Pixar when it was just a fledging company, and turned it into the monster animation studio that it is today. Toy Story? Monsters Inc? Finding Nemo? Wall-E? Cars? all those movies your kids love..thank Steve and his desire for Pixar to become a leading graphical rendering company for that.
When he got kicked out of Apple, he ran off and started "NeXT". It was never massively popular with the popular but gained a big following in academic and programming circles due to the systems speed. The worlds first web server and web browser were written on a NeXT box.
Originally posted by LordGoofus
Although other music players already existed, the iPod forever changed the personal music player landscape and resulted in pretty much all it's competitors copying the design & functionality in one way or another. It was as big a change as moving from "Walkmans" to "Portable CD Players".
You have no idea what my standards are.
But funny how that computer your using is the exception, eh?
Originally posted by popsmayhem
reply to post by fatpastyhead
If the *bloke* is dead then why would us discussing his legacy
have any impact or bother him>>??
The question is not WHAT DID HE DO TOO YOU
The question is WHAT DID HE REALLY DO FOR YOU!!
People lived without this s**t for thousands of years whooopeee freakin ding..
Would the word have been that worse off had Steve Jobs decided to become a gardener?