Steve Jobs gets posthumous Grammy AND a bronze statue Steve Jobs, who died in October this year, has been posthumously handed a Grammy award. Meanwhile, a "life-like" bronze statue of the Apple co-founder has been erected in Budapest, Hungary. Me woz born in da heart of da Staines ghetto The Recording Academy said that Jobs was among its list of 2011's "Trustees Award …
and you're complaining about the death of literature? Seems a bit incongruous to me.
(And perhaps you'd be entertained to know that, here in the colonies, when one speaks of 'drawers' and pronounces it 'draws', one speaks specifically of Y-fronts or other cotton undergarments. Which strikes me as a hell of a place to which to relegate ol' Geoff, but thanks for the laugh!)
Can we all stop talking about Steve Jobs please? i was taught not to speak ill of the dead, but this is starting to get rather ridiculous. Let me say it one more time, in case it wasn't abundantly clear already. Steve Jobs was no saint, more the opposite if anything.
The king is dead, love live the king!
Funny, your last sentence -- had we in the seceded colonies but had the wit and good sense so to elevate him in place of our present pathetically demotic system of supposed government, I suspect Mr. Jobs would've made the sort of king to whom we'd still refer, five hundred years from now, as "Steven the Great". No saint? Of course not! How many saints have made good rulers?
How random.
When I was there in the summer I noticed a very healthy selection of different handsets, so they're hardly a country of fanboys. Apple products are horrendously expensive there, for example it's cheaper to buy a Mac Pro in the UK and ship it to Hungary than it is to buy it locally.
Not often the UK can be described as a cheap source!
Looked to me like he was giving everyone two fingers at first, which would make it a very lifelike posture. Then I saw that the angle was just bad and all four were there.
On a sidebar, why has El Reg not yet reported Apple's being granted the patent on multitasking phones? I would have thought you'd be all over that.
I worked to develop a building information system for a company using ArchiCAD, in the early nineties. At that time, the story of how much encouragement they had received was well known amongst ArchiCAD users. When they started, they were literally working out CAD software on paper and having it compiled outside the country.
I suspect you have to have worked closely with people from former communist countries, as I have, to understand how much this kind of support meant to them. I have no doubts that their sentiments are genuine.
If the statue had been erected in the USA, I'd be cheering on your sentiment but your cynicism is misplaced.
Yet more totally unjustified adulation for a guy who appeared not to have any manners and was bullish to the extent of being downright rude, judging by the e-mails that were previously published. His influence on the computer industry was NOT as god-like as some folk would have you believe. He was certainly a master of spin and propaganda, hyping new Apple products to the hilt to try and justify their hideously over-inflated prices. A bit of style maybe - but that's all you're paying through the nose for. Oh - and for the "privilege" of Apple having total control over the product, even though you may have thought the good money you paid made it yours to do with whatever you saw fit.
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