Steve Jobs, one of the co-founders of Apple, and a one time owner of Pixar Animation (bought for $10m in 1986), died of cancer yesterday.
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| Candles in London |
A sad loss for his family and friends no doubt, but not the death of Mother Teresa, Gandhi, or Mandela.
But judging from the hysterical
response to the news in some quarters you would think the world had
ended (similar to the nonsense when the child loving 'Wacko Jacko' died). The flowers, apples, cards, vigils and candles being placed outside Apple stores are the signs of a ridiculously snowflake sentimentality in societies in the West ...
He helped invent a type of exorbitantly expensive Phone, a type of exorbitantly expensive Computer and a type of exorbitantly expensive portable Music Player .... none were strictly speaking, new ideas, but they were well packaged and promoted to a group of techno-snobs, who paid extra to not be with the rest of humanity, and made him a billionaire.
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He helped invent a type of exorbitantly expensive Phone, a type of exorbitantly expensive Computer and a type of exorbitantly expensive portable Music Player .... none were strictly speaking, new ideas, but they were well packaged and promoted to a group of techno-snobs, who paid extra to not be with the rest of humanity, and made him a billionaire.
But they haven't changed the world, despite all the hysterics, and the sun will still rise tomorrow.
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