Steve Jobs - RIP...

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Robert871

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wow. 56... my parents are 55... and i am quickly approaching half that. i had no idea he had health issues, or that he had stepped down as ceo on the 24th of august. crazy. it makes me feel like a prick yaknow, i notice how well apple is thriving in the past few years, and how every other person is walking around with an iphone in their hand, and just thought, yeah hes just another mega millionaire who will live to be 115 with all his money. i guess when its your time its your time, doesn't matter how big you make it, how many people you affect, or what you did, not necessarily going to buy you any more time.

i feel like he was probably a pretty good guy, and i am kind of sad to hear about it, regardless of not even really knowing anything more about the guy.
 

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Thats the one thing I completely disagree with. Jobs had his name on patents,.. he didnt invent. He took ideas and marketed them,... very well. He was cutthroat and a major A-Hole from what I hear in the business community.

Eternal rest grant unto him and all that jive... but I am not going to say I miss the guy. Hell, I didnt even know him.
 

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Thats the one thing I completely disagree with. Jobs had his name on patents,.. he didnt invent. He took ideas and marketed them,... very well. He was cutthroat and a major A-Hole from what I hear in the business community.

Eternal rest grant unto him and all that jive... but I am not going to say I miss the guy. Hell, I didnt even know him.

Jobs did invent.

Out of his garage he brought you the first personal computer and then he went on to take IBM for a ride with the Macintosh. Both were genuine ideas he came up with. He also was the brain behind pixar. And the iPod was by yours truly along with the iPhone.

Now i believe patents work in a similar manner to research in that the principle investigator retains all right to intellectual data. So its just as the people under Jobs did the grunt work and may have contributed to the innovation, they still owed their work to the intellectual idea that Jobs started. Its no different then when I worked under a PI in my science lab and she was always the final author on the title line since she was PI even though the post doc and I were the core minds behind a lot of the research.
 

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