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Sad news today, Steve Jobs lost his battle with pancreatic cancer.
For everybody who's ever used an apple product, you'll know what an innovative person he was, and he'll be sorely missed.
Sad times.....

I personally never really liked apple's marketing strategies or products, but people seem to forget that Steve was also one of the men steering Pixar, which is a much less contentious brand to be an enormous fan of (I certainly am).

The world is going to be different place now.

-Stacy

Yes very sad to hear. In honour of Steve I will be buying a iPhone 4s next Friday (Luckily my contract runs out on wednesday)

This is going to sound harsh, but instead of spending money on an iPhone upgrade or a fondleslab, I'd like you all to consider giving the money to your favourite cancer charity. Believe you me, he would have wanted a cure more than anything.

HEAR HEAR!.
Apple must be loving the free global advertisements every few seconds.

Tomo wrote:This is going to sound harsh, but instead of spending money on an iPhone upgrade or a fondleslab, I'd like you all to consider giving the money to your favourite cancer charity. Believe you me, he would have wanted a cure more than anything.

Not harsh at all, I already do charity work for cancer research.

And how did Paul O'Grady become the new Apple CEO?

Tomo wrote:And how did Paul O'Grady become the new Apple CEO?

This sounds like a great lead in for a joke...!

As tragic as this is, it does draw attention to how tenancious cancer is, especially pancreatic.

Steve Jobs, with all the money in the world, still could not overcome the battle. More money to cancer research and support charities would be a good place to start so in the future people with this affliction and similar can overcome it where Mr Jobs was unfortunately unable to.

Tomo wrote:This is going to sound harsh, but instead of spending money on an iPhone upgrade or a fondleslab, I'd like you all to consider giving the money to your favourite cancer charity. Believe you me, he would have wanted a cure more than anything.

How about joining the blood cancer register? You can sign up for it online at http://www.anthonynolan.org/ and it takes about 15 minutes to fill in the form. If you qualify, they send you a plastic tube to spit into which you return by freepost so it doesn't cost you any money and only about an hour of your time to potentially

SAVE SOMEONES LIFE!

A J Irving wrote:

Tomo wrote:This is going to sound harsh, but instead of spending money on an iPhone upgrade or a fondleslab, I'd like you all to consider giving the money to your favourite cancer charity. Believe you me, he would have wanted a cure more than anything.

How about joining the blood cancer register? You can sign up for it online at http://www.anthonynolan.org/ and it takes about 15 minutes to fill in the form. If you qualify, they send you a plastic tube to spit into which you return by freepost so it doesn't cost you any money and only about an hour of your time to potentially

SAVE SOMEONES LIFE!

Good idea! I've just done it

And everyone should join the organ register! It takes 2 minutes to do so - if you have religious reasons against it? Screw them!

Just come across this on Twitter:

"It's more fun to be a pirate than join the navy" - Steve Jobs

MagicIain wrote:Just come across this on Twitter:

"It's more fun to be a pirate than join the navy" - Steve Jobs

Notwithstanding jokes about seamen around your naval base!

At school in the early 80s, we had some ITT-2020 Apple 2 clones. They came with a disassembly of the monitor ROM and Apple BASIC. Reading the disassembly was the first time I ever heard of Wozniac and Jobs. Wozniac was the technical genius of the two, but Jobs was a tenacious salesman. It was a winning combination.

Sad news indeed but it certainly proves that wealth and status is no guarantee of long life or good health. The first computer I used was an Apple Europlus II, no hard drive but a bank of 5.1/4" Floppy Disc Drives. For basic Stock Control it required three of them and every additional module such as Sales Processing, Purchase Processing, and Nominal Accounts an extra disc drive had to be added. Regrettably the local Apple Dealers who advised us about the system and supplied it prepared their invoices on an old fashioned manual typewriter – not exactly a good indication of their confidence in the products!

As for organ donations etc, if you’d be happy to accept a life saving transplant then perhaps you should be prepared to donate after you’ve popped your clogs – after all, your body won’t be of any use to you so why not let someone else have a chance?

Heard on TV a few weeks ago, ‘I have an organ donor card but I haven’t filled it in, I want someone else to be able to use it after I’m gone... ’

The first thing I ever had published was a hack for the Apple 2. Our computer studies class all had to buy a floppy disk each, and there was a spate of Bigger Boys stealing them, copying the work and passing the programs off as their own. I worked out that you could put control characters in the file names and they wouldn't show up. Unless you knew which to put where, you couldn't open the files. Personal Computer World paid me £5 for the tip. Twenty-six years later, I won a couple of BT IT Security Journalism awards for a feature I wrote for the same mag called "Avoiding The Cybersnoops".

Beardy wrote:

A J Irving wrote:

Tomo wrote:This is going to sound harsh, but instead of spending money on an iPhone upgrade or a fondleslab, I'd like you all to consider giving the money to your favourite cancer charity. Believe you me, he would have wanted a cure more than anything.

How about joining the blood cancer register? You can sign up for it online at http://www.anthonynolan.org/ and it takes about 15 minutes to fill in the form. If you qualify, they send you a plastic tube to spit into which you return by freepost so it doesn't cost you any money and only about an hour of your time to potentially

SAVE SOMEONES LIFE!

Good idea! I've just done it

And everyone should join the organ register! It takes 2 minutes to do so - if you have religious reasons against it? Screw them!

Already done the organ donation just signed up to the Nolan one.

The organ register should really be an opt out system in my opinion, I have never seen a good reason why it should not be.