Steve Jobs memorial brings out tech titans... and Bono Tech world supremos Larry Page, Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Michael Dell and Apple's Tim Cook and Scott Forstall made an appearance at the secret memorial for Steve Jobs held in Stanford University yesterday. U2's Bono, media baron Rupert Murdoch and, er, Stephen Fry were also in attendance. The ceremony in the Stanford chapel …
Will be a 70 meter high statue of the said person as a replacement to Nelson in Trafalger Square.
Do you know I reckon it would be deserved, dedicated to the man who believed that design and function could work together.
More relevant that defeating the French though not in rugby.
Something that works and looks great, just like my wife. What more could we want from our gadgets, and the same mantra that every other manufacturer has copied.
that do what I want them to, and whose function I can change if I so wish.
Gadgets like that are rarely ugly, though sometimes pretty boring (my first smartphone in ~2004 http://pdadb.net/img/xda2s.jpg is actually pretty good looking- and those hard buttons made all the blank space around the screen actually useful!)
In any case, Johnathon Ive (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Ive) was the creative guy behind making Apple products look cool. And Jobs isn't a technical guy, so had very little input on the technical side of things.
It's a sign of Apple's wholehearted push for control that the funeral of this man- mourned for by thousands who hadn't met him for things someone else had done- was behind closed steel gates.
One can only hope that in future Apple can be the ones to Think Different and leave their control freakery behind.
Well I do sunshine, deeply - be interesting to see if they approve what I just posted
To all those people worrying about who will design the next their next fiddlephone or fondleslab, it will be the same bloke who designed the last one, and the one before that and your iPod and your Mac Air.
Jony Ive from Chingford in Kent is already working on them - look him up!!
The Media are just a bunch of echonomists - plagiarise, cut & paste blah blah blah.
That would be "le roi est mort", meaning "the king is dead". Your thing is grammatically incorrect (the king is a person, so it would be "il est mort").
It works perfectly fine in English, so don't bother if your french suck.
Also goes for people misspelling "voilà" and other words. If you can't spell it, that's fine, just don't use it, noone will blame you.
Perhaps they simply didn't want the Westoboro baptist church to show up and make it a hate festival like they promised. When they show up the event is always all about THEM no matter what it is.
They spared the mourners that. It WOULD be nice to have a recording of the service available for those of us who DID mourn his passing though.
Can you blame them for privacy? Think of how many people show up in lines for the Phone. If they had made this public it would have REALLY been a circus.
to the others who mentioned Dennis Ritchie - I totally agree. The irony that OSX and iOS are built on branches of Unix and C seems lost on the world. The man who really actually f**king built it and the man who re-wrapped it and marketed it to the world in a pretty box die within days of each other... compare the send offs...
this makes me feel very sick and cynical
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