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2011-10-06 18:40:32
by melted (227442) on Thursday October 06, @12:50AM (#37622430) Homepage
Disgusted with some people here dancing on the coffin.
WTF is wrong with you? "Walled garden" my ass. It was his garden. Don't like it
buy something else, he never forced anyone to buy Apple products. The guy was
a visionary. If it wasn't for him, the tech industry would be where it was 10
years ago, if that. Had Apple not released iPhone, your Android would look like
ass today, which is what it looked like shortly before iPhone was released.
That's assuming there'd even _be_ Android. Your PC laptops would be 1.5 inches
thick and would have a battery life of 1 hour. Had NeXT not existed, Tim
Berners Lee might not have invented the web. Had Steve not taken those
typography classes way back when, chances are we'd have shitty monospaced fonts
everywhere. Linux would be a lot more CDE like, and Windows would not look the
same either, assuming there'd even be Windows. There would be no Toy Story, no
Cars, no Up, no Finding Nemo, all computers would be made of shitty beige
plastic, USB, CD/DVDs and WiFi would be set back years, there'd be no Chrome,
no usable Clang and LLVM, no mainstream UNIX OSs, no DRM-free downloadable
music, no ideas for other people to rip off.
Steve's reach extended far beyond Apple and iPhone. The guy simply gave a lot
to this world, while not really taking much for himself. He has put a dent in
the universe. You may glorify him or vilify him, but you can't ignore him. And
if you're a decent human being, you can't cheer his death either.