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Happy Steve Jobs Day

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California governor Jerry Brown declared Friday that October 16 would be Steve Jobs Day for the state. While strictly for observance and not time off, it would give the late Apple co-founder a treatment normally reserved for non-corporate heroes. The day coincides with a private memorial at Stanford and may be synchronized.

Jobs' receiving a special day, even if minor, reflects sentiments that Jobs was a boon to California. He helped establish the modern concept of Silicon Valley and shifted attention to the state after redefining the computer, MP3 player, smartphone, and tablet markets during his lifetime. Companies like Microsoft and Nokia that once were content to stay in their home states or countries but eventually put at least a satellite presence in California to understand the culture Apple helped create.



Read more: http://www.electronista.com/article...ov.brown.dedicates.day.to.jobs/#ixzz1aofcQ2w4

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http://stevejobsday2011.com/index.php

I'm proud of Brown for doing this, it's a fitting tribute to Jobs.
 
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The guy made gadgets. They were cool, innovative, and well designed but in the end they were just gadgets. If those gadgets were not available your life wouldn't really be any worse. Do I regret that he died? Yes. Do I think he deserves a day like this? No. There are plenty of people who make more important changes to the world that never get any notice at all while Steve Jobs has been getting a huge amount of notice for making consumer products. Why set aside a day to recognize someone that everyone in the world already knows about when there are people doing more important things in complete obscurity?
 
Bignate603 said:
The guy made gadgets. They were cool, innovative, and well designed but in the end they were just gadgets. If those gadgets were not available your life wouldn't really be any worse. Do I regret that he died? Yes. Do I think he deserves a day like this? No. There are plenty of people who make more important changes to the world that never get any notice at all while Steve Jobs has been getting a huge amount of notice for making consumer products. Why set aside a day to recognize someone that everyone in the world already knows about when there are people doing more important things in complete obscurity?
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Those other people didn't generate money for California, did they? ;^)
 
I don't know of any CEO that deserves his own Holiday, even if it is just state-wide. He ran a business, and it wasn't even a very charitable one at that.
 
Yaaaay! Now I have a real reason to jack off to Steve's picture. Before I was just gonna do it 'cause he was such a genius.
 
Bignate603 said:
The guy made gadgets. They were cool, innovative, and well designed but in the end they were just gadgets. If those gadgets were not available your life wouldn't really be any worse. Do I regret that he died? Yes. Do I think he deserves a day like this? No. There are plenty of people who make more important changes to the world that never get any notice at all while Steve Jobs has been getting a huge amount of notice for making consumer products. Why set aside a day to recognize someone that everyone in the world already knows about when there are people doing more important things in complete obscurity?
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dude WTF do you keep going on on this. We all know you can't afford these mere consumer products. You act like you are some kind of C type, yet work fries.
 
lxskllr said:
Those other people didn't generate money for California, did they? ;^)
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Ironic that a state so commonly thought of as "communistic" is the only one I know of who has declared a holiday for a capitalist instead of a philanthropist.

Ayn Rand would be proud, California.
 
alkemyst said:
dude WTF do you keep going on on this. We all know you can't afford these mere consumer products. You act like you are some kind of C type, yet work fries.
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Keep on telling yourself that if it makes you feel better. We all know how much everyone respects your opinion around here.
 
lols pathetic. the dude was a great salesman and a shady businessman, why are we honoring such shit? he didn't invent any of this shit, he just sold it to you guys. goddamn... i respect his skills and the company he built, but come on....
 
Meanwhile, nobody outside of the programming world knows who in the hell Dennis Ritchie was... even though the stuff that HE invented (C and UNIX) are used in practically every computer, tablet, server, smartphone, and set-top device on the planet. Grr.

I guess that the secret to fame is to make pretty shiny electronic devices that are so simple to use that even a reporter can understand them.
 
bfdd said:
lols pathetic. the dude was a great salesman and a shady businessman, why are we honoring such shit? he didn't invent any of this shit, he just sold it to you guys. goddamn... i respect his skills and the company he built, but come on....
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:thumbsup:
 
Bignate603 said:
The guy made gadgets. They were cool, innovative, and well designed but in the end they were just gadgets. If those gadgets were not available your life wouldn't really be any worse. Do I regret that he died? Yes. Do I think he deserves a day like this? No. There are plenty of people who make more important changes to the world that never get any notice at all while Steve Jobs has been getting a huge amount of notice for making consumer products. Why set aside a day to recognize someone that everyone in the world already knows about when there are people doing more important things in complete obscurity?
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I concur with this. The fawning over Jobs and Apple is absurd.
 
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