Steve Jobs Lands Trustees Award; Also Gets Bronze Statue

[SoiledBottom]

A bronze statue for Steve Jobs ? I don't get it...maybe I'm looking at it wrong

 

[rantoc]

What a waste of metal that could been used for something nice instead of a crummy pre-owned car-salesman looking statue

 

[del35]

Apple revolutionized Hardware

Yeah, Mr Job got China to cheaply manufacture drm infested locked-down devices with little connectivity, no user exchangeable batteries, and mediocre hardware; then had them placed in shiny cases for the toodumbtodotheirhomework to spend lavishly on and make believe they were as cool as the people they saw in the Apple advertisements. That is where many of the billions Mr Jobs swindled from his technologically preliterate fanboys went, not into actually manufacturing superior or revolutionary products.

 

[del35]

What a waste of metal that could been used for something nice instead of a crummy pre-owned car-salesman looking statue

That metal could have been used to render tribute to a truly revolutionary thinker like Dennis Ritchie, the man behind much of what is great today in programming and software. When Dennis died in Sept this year, the public barely heard of him. But when the archswindler Mr Jobs passed away, the media could not shut up. In many way Mr Jobs death was a shot of liberation for the march of technology. We don't need little shiny boxes housing locked-down drm infested crappy hardware for dumb people. In our diverse financially challenged world we need truly superior products that foster connectivity and open standards. That is what Dennis brought to mankind, but sadly he has not been given the tribute he deserves.

 

[eddieroolz]

Snap off a few fingers and it becomes Apple giving the finger to its competitors.

 

[Camikazi]

[citation][nom]SneakySnake[/nom]Look at droid post iPhone (hint: it's freaking amazing)look at tablets pre and post iPad[/citation]
OK I am seriously tired of this one, forget about the iPad completely and think about what the HARDWARE was like when the old tablet were out and what OSes were run on them? Wanna know the answer? BIG, HOT, x86 CPUs and Windows for an OS, there were no small OSes that could have made them usable, Windows was then (and still is ATM) x86 only. If Apple were to have made a tablet back then guess what it would have looked like? It would have been about as thick as the Windows ones since that is what was needed with that hardware.

It was not Apple that made tablets thinner and sleeker, it was ARM that allowed it, them making their CPUs and GPUs powerful enough and cool enough allowed tablets to be so thin. ARM is the one who changed the entire mobile industry, without their Cortex CPUs that power pretty much every smartphone out now neither iOS nor Android would be where they are now. The thinner and sleeker tablet was an evolution based on the available technology, you can even see this in the old tablets, as Intel made their CPUs smaller and cooler the tablets got thinner and thinner.

 

[The-Darkening]

[citation][nom]eddieroolz[/nom]Snap off a few fingers and it becomes Apple giving the finger to its consumers.[/citation]

There, Fixed that for ya.

 

[del35]

The ugliest statue ever..

So true. But sure this statue will be all over the Apple church stores.

 

[Guest]

Statue looks like it was made of poop. Kinda fitting. Actually it would be even more fitting if it was made by Chinese slaves who were forced to sign suicide pacts.

 

[Guest]

its already green? i tough the statue was just installed, it should be shiny...

 

[rantoc]

[citation][nom]Jagen[/nom]its already green? i tough the statue was just installed, it should be shiny...[/citation]

Someone spewed acid on it (usually done to make things look old)

 

[rantoc]

Doubt its even solid, must be a hole inside at least where the heart once was. How many workers committed suicide to add to apples riches due to their horrible working conditions? That man could have changed that but he didn't, was more important to stockpile even more cash than make the life worthy of the workers who actually produced the items sold.

So yeah it was defiantly a hole at the heart space in the original!

 

[dietcreamsoda]

Awww, look at all the basement-dwelling fandroids coming to spew their undying jealousy. Don't worry though, if you keep whining like a bunch of little girls, maybe someday your junior-high-project-looking OS will warrant a statue of Google's CEO. Or maybe Samsung's. Not that anyone would know or care who they are, but it should make you feel a little better. Now then, go do something useful with your life. That is all.

 

[del35]

Awww, look at all the basement-dwelling fandroids coming to spew their undying jealousy.

People complaining about the likes of Benito Mussolini or the technological fascism of Steve Jobs has nothing to do with envy. You need to have your paleomammalian brain examined iCrippled.

 

[v1ze]

[citation][nom]dietcreamsoda[/nom]Don't worry though, if you keep whining like a bunch of little girls, maybe someday your junior-high-project-looking OS will warrant a statue of Google's CEO.[/citation]
Ironically, iOS was geared towards those with the brain power of a junior-high student. No wonder it's so easy to use!

 

[v1ze]

[citation][nom]SneakySnake[/nom]He took ideas from everywhere. That was his genius.[/citation]
It's OK for Steve Jobs to take ideas from everywhere, yet anything even remotely close to an Apple product is a Patent Lawsuit or simply unoriginal?
Genius? Perhaps. Double standard? More likely.

 

[Guest]

[citation][nom]del35[/nom]"Award for changing the music industry with iTunes. "Yeah Steve made agreements with the record industry the outcome of which was the jailing of iTune users in a drm locked-down nightmare. Of course the record industry is happy with the outcome. He was after all working to keep the consumer in the losing side. Steve Jobs contribution to music and the way digital media is consumed amounts only to a method for defrauding his gullible subjects. Concerning the Statue for this swindler in Hungary, I can only say that it speaks volumes about the technological backwardness of these people. Someday they will look back and think about this tribute to this nefarious con-artist in the same way that some countries today look back at having collaborated with past dictators now almost universally seen as evil.[/citation]

Hard to find stances like this during this time and age when queuing at Apple stores has become a cultural thing.

 

[capt_taco]

Well, he's DEAD, so I'm still doing better than him.

 

[teodoreh]

[citation][nom]SoiledBottom[/nom]A bronze statue for Steve Jobs ? I don't get it...maybe I'm looking at it wrong[/citation]


Why not. Rocky Balboa got one too..

 

[harmaatukka]

Waiting for the lawsuits, this is a Steve Jobs figure right, everything about him has been stolen here. Besides this might generate tourism profits that rightfully belong to Apple.