Did you cry over the sad dead of Steve Jobs?

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Me myself i cried for a whole day(and my whole family laughed at me about it) cause he was a huge inspiration to me and we have lots in commen and he seems to have lived a broken life, he also died so young.

what was your reaction?

I cried as well.

"Who the heck was Steve Jobs?" was my reaction. I never even heard of him until his death. In fact I sort of took it literal thinking someone named Steve and his job. I read it as someone trying to ruin his job because someone wrote "rip Steve Jobs" so I thought someone was going to sabotage his work or something.

Nope, sorry to say it had no impact on me.

I wish his family, friends and fans well.

*Did you cry over the sad death of Steve Jobs?

No. He never meant much to me, but I was slightly shocked when he died. If figured if he had cancer he would become bound to a death bed first, instead of suddenly just dying.

I don't really cry over death in general, unless it was particularly-painful for them
Death itself to me is simply cessation of being.

I'd never before heard of the WTC prior to 9/11, so I can relate.

I think it's good that he is no longer suffering, and from what I read, he was not only Apple's CEO (before his illness) but it's chief creative mind, so I wonder how the company will fare now. That's about it.

i was shocked and a bit sad, but not crying.

I honestly knew absolutely nothing about him. All I knew was that he was a big cheese in Apple inc.

Did you cry over the sad dead of Steve Jobs?

Seriously?
God no - why would I cry because he died, more than some other random person on the planet?
So he did something you admire or find useful - and I'm sure everyone else who dies also did the same thing for someone too. Will you cry for them?

It's sad and truly meaningful for his immediate family and friends because they knew him well; they had the measure of the man and his personality and interacted with him on a daily basis. Their loss is immediately up-close and personal.
But to us, the distant consumers? Oh, please - he was the CEO of a successful company like thousands of others.
Also, he was effectively dead years ago when the cancer was diagnosed - did you cry then, because surely knowing the man had been handed a death sentence is more horrifying than his actually dying.

Will you cry when Steve Wozniak dies? Apple wouldn't have existed without him too.
Will you cry when Bill Gates dies?
Will you cry when Joan Allsop dies?

(who is Joan Allsop, you're doubtless wondering. Just someone else on the planet you have no personal connection with, and who happens to be a sweet old lady of 85)

/end rant on the cult of pseudo-grief

I am not sure what you mean when you say "broken life." I didn't cry, but I was sad. He did so much in the world of technology, music distribution, and computer animation. It was sad that he died at an early age partly because he would have brought us more breakthrough innovation, otherwise. I was sad for his family and friends. He must have been proud to have accomplished so much, but frustrated that his life was cut short.

I have been fascinated with personal computing since the early 1980's. He (along with Bill Gates ) was a major influence in personal computing from the beginning. Bill Gates got many of his ideas for Windows from Apple.

And both inherited their ideas from Xerox.
Xerox didn't realise what it had with the WIMP (Window, Icon, Menu, and Pointing device) system, but at least Apple bought the rights to the Alto GUI and did something useful with it.
Gates, as ever, just copied.

I was not a bit sad and I don't really understand why there is such an outpouring for him all over the world.

No. I never even met the guy.

No. I didn't even cry when my mother died or when my daughter was born.

See, I've got this thing called Asperger's syndrome. It limits my emotional range to frustration, goofiness and happy.

Old by now, but

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loxmPuBOiPM&feature=channel_video_title[/youtube]

I saw it on /g/ after going to see how many threads were about Jobs.