Steve Jobs Remembered on 14th Anniversary of His Death (macrumors.com)
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- News link: https://apple.slashdot.org/story/25/10/06/0554208/steve-jobs-remembered-on-14th-anniversary-of-his-death
- Source link: https://www.macrumors.com/2025/10/05/remembering-steve/
> When he left Apple in the mid-1980s, he didn't even clear out his office. That meant personal mementos like his [2]first Apple stock certificate , which had hung on his office wall, got tossed in the trash. Shortly after returning to Apple in the late 1990s, he gave the [3]company's historical archive to Stanford University Libraries. The stash included records that Apple management kept since the mid-1980s. The reason Apple handed over this historical treasure trove? Jobs didn't want the company to fixate on the past...
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> All of which goes some way to saying why it was so heartening that Steve Jobs' death received so much attention. He wasn't the richest technology CEO to die. But the reaction showed that his life — faults and all — meant a lot to a great number of people. Jobs helped create products people cared about, and in turn they cared about him.
The site [4] Mac Rumors remembered Sunday that Jobs "died just one day after Apple unveiled the iPhone 4S and Siri." Six years later, Apple CEO Tim Cook reflected on Jobs while [5]opening Apple's first-ever event at Steve Jobs Theater in 2017. "There is not a day that goes by that we don't think about him."
And Sunday Cook [6]posted this remembrance of Steve Jobs . "Steve saw the future as a bright and boundless place, lit the path forward, and inspired us to follow.
"We miss you, my friend."
[1] https://www.cultofmac.com/apple-history/steve-jobs-death
[2] https://www.cultofmac.com/news/buy-steve-jobs-first-apple-stock-certificate-just-195000
[3] https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf4t1nb0n3/
[4] https://www.macrumors.com/2025/10/05/remembering-steve/
[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5iyULLIPg0
[6] https://x.com/tim_cook/status/1974822379663589796
Did they remember what a cunt he was? (Score:5, Informative)
Deadbeat dad, horrible boss, ripped off his "friends", and then in a final act of bastardry, bought a house in a state with a shorter waiting list for transplants after basically guaranteeing he was going to die soon by delaying treating his cancer. Someone else would've got a lot more out of that transplanted organ. Rot in hell, Steve.
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Well said.
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Can't agree with that last part but I would assume he'll be having an interesting time in purgatory.
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Psychopath CEO. No wonder Woz doesn't want anything to do with these people.
To be fair... (Score:2)
... to build a successful business in the western capilalist system requires a certain amount of ruthlessness, treading on others and using your friends efforts to get yourself ahead. I'm not apologising for the guy, he was an unpleasent dick, but if he hadn't been Apple might never have existed.
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Typed that on an iPhone, or Mac?
Re:Did they remember what a cunt he was? (Score:4, Insightful)
It's perhaps comparatively minor compared to all that, but he started anti-consumer trends like non-replacable batteries and walled gardens too.
Re: Did they remember what a cunt he was? (Score:2)
Both concepts existed in different forms far before him.
Re: Did they remember what a cunt he was? (Score:2)
Jobs did not invent the walled garden approach, he actually wanted everything to be a web app available through Safari, touting the idea of how the overwhelming majority of code should be ran via the browser natively, long before Google Chrome even saw a 1.0 release. I can hold many things against him but this was not one of his decisions, it is actually something that developers pushed for themselves originally.
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Even then though, Safari was crippled to limit what web apps could do.
14 years already... (Score:3)
Wow, he's been dead for 14 years and I still don't give a shit. He leaves behind a legacy of corporate greed and personal douchbaggery.
Overrated Sociopath ? (Score:3)
The whip master of hand held content vending machine development, aided and abetted the madness of Social Media, carried to his death on the wings of hubris.
I know it's Monday morning and my cynicism is through the roof. Is Jobs celebrated because he was wealthy "visionary" and lead a big organisation? Hitler had those qualifications too.
Apple cofounder Steve Jobs was found dead... (Score:2)
Lol, 14 years ago I managed to get this story posted in the style of the old "Stephen King was found dead in his home today - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon" meme that used to be so popular here. Glad to know that even back then the editors didn't know the site and the memes popular on it.
[1]https://slashdot.org/story/11/... [slashdot.org]
Goddamn I've been on this site for too long
[1] https://slashdot.org/story/11/10/06/000211/steve-jobs-dead-at-56
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Stephen King is [1]still alive [wikipedia.org].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_King
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Yes, that was a very old meme here on /. back in the day despite him being very much alive. Similar to the guy who would always get the first post reminding you to pay your $599 linux license fee to SCO you cock smoking teabagger, the GNAA trolls, and random goatse links that appeared in every comment section (These goatse links are why all links on slashdot comments have the domain next to them, decades later). This was back when the average slashdot story had hundreds of replies, instead of the few dozen
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Enforcing a delay between people being able post another comment in the same story got rid of most of the spam.
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I thought it was the [1]new user block [slashdot.org] that did that, there was still a ton of spam with the delay because it took less time to sign up for a new account than it did to wait for the limit.....
[1] https://slashdot.org/my/newuser
Our species is broken (Score:3)
We could recall to mind all those intellectual greats who actually added something of value to the future of the species:
Lodovico Ferrari
Frederic Lewy
Lars Onsager
Karl Menger
James H. Wilkinson
Karl Gordon Henize
Maurice Wilkins
William H. Dobelle
Instead here we are celebrating someone who made over-priced toys for bored monkeys with a desperate need to play status games.
Stock Certificate not trashed (Score:2)
The link in the TFO takes yo to a page that says
> "Leaving without clearing out his office, CEO John Sculley ordered that Jobs’ possessions be disposed of if he wasn’t coming back to get them. Fortunately, the certificate was rescued by a smart (is there any other kind?) Apple employee, who held onto it for the next few decades."
It was offered for sale in 2016 for $195K. I suspect other personal items to be trashed were instead grabbed by employees.
He might still be alive (Score:1)
If he didn't go to witch doctors and Japanese crystal healers to deal with his cancer.
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Jobs was just a salesman, a very good ruthless salesman, but just a salesman. Woz was the actual original technical brains behind the outfit. I get the feeling Jobs and science only had a nodding aquaintance.
Re: He might still be alive (Score:2)
And we wouldnâ(TM)t have to deal with the enshitification of the iPhone and the Mac. Anybody need another camera on the back of their iPhone? An ugly UI?