RIP Steve Jobs...

It was just confirmed that Steve Jobs has died. He will be missed. Whether or not you like Apple, he was admittedly a brilliant business man. Rest in Peace.

www.apple.com

http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20111005-716057.html

Steve Jobs' family today made the following statement regarding his death:

Steve died peacefully today surrounded by his family.

In his public life, Steve was known as a visionary; in his private life, he cherished his family. We are thankful to the many people who have shared their wishes and prayers during the last year of Steve's illness; a website will be provided for those who wish to offer tributes and memories.

We are grateful for the support and kindness of those who share our feelings for Steve. We know many of you will mourn with us, and we ask that you respect our privacy during our time of grief.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/05/statement-by-apples-board-of-directors/

Steven Paul Jobs was 56. He died from advanced pancreatic cancer that he had been publicly fighting since 2004. He, along with co-founder Steve Wozniak, built one of the most "commercially successful" personal computers and founded Pixar animation studios.

We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today.

Steve's brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The world is immeasurably better because of Steve.

His greatest love was for his wife, Laurene, and his family. Our hearts go out to them and to all who were touched by his extraordinary gifts.

You can share remembrances with Apple atrememberingsteve@apple.com.

Do not therefore consider this life as an object of any moment. Look back on the immense gulf of time already past; and forwards, to that infinite duration yet to come, and you will find how trifling the difference is between a life of three days and of three ages.

Let us then employ properly this moment of time allotted us by fate, and lave the world contentedly; like a ripe olive dropping from its stalk, speaking well of the soil that produced it, and of the tree that bore it.

-Marcus Aurelius,Meditations

It was just confirmed that Steve Jobs has died. He will be missed. Whether or not you like Apple, he was admittedly a brilliant business man. Rest in Peace.

EsYuGee

Do you have any links? Or are we just going to have to take your word for it?

Do you have any links? Or are we just going to have to take your word for it?

black_cat19

inb4 apple stock goes down north of 20%

Not an Apple fan but that's really sad to hear. :(

he was only 56...i dont know..its unconfirmed how he died...i smell foul play

Link for teh lazies:

link

He was only 56... poor guy. :(

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/steve-jobs-apple-ceo-dies/story?id=14383813

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-05/apple-says-steve-jobs-passed-away-today.html

http://gizmodo.com/5838847/steve-jobs-is-dead

As for cause, it's not out yet, but given his paticular issues it's probably general organ failure due to complications from metastatic cancer, liver failure, etc.

Well that's certainly sad. mrmusicman247

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/steve-jobs-apple-ceo-dies/story?id=14383813

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-05/apple-says-steve-jobs-passed-away-today.html

http://gizmodo.com/5838847/steve-jobs-is-dead

As for cause, it's not out yet, but given his paticular issues it's probably general organ failure due to complications from metastatic cancer, liver failure, etc.

Frame_Dragger

On Apple's main page also:

http://www.apple.com/

That sucks :(

Rest in peace.

[QUOTE="black_cat19"]

Do you have any links? Or are we just going to have to take your word for it?

DroidPhysX

Is that so...? Well, I still think it's common courtesy to include a link when making a news thread, especially when when you're making claims that would seem outlandish without a reputable source to back you up.

Here:

Yahoo

There's not even a full article on it yet, as far as I can tell.

[QUOTE="DroidPhysX"][QUOTE="black_cat19"]

Do you have any links? Or are we just going to have to take your word for it?

black_cat19

Is that so...? Well, I still think it's common courtesy to include a link when making a news thread, especially when when you're making claims that would seem outlandish without a reputable source to back you up.

Here:

Yahoo

There's not even a full article on it yet, as far as I can tell.

It is but its becoming a pain in the ass to link since GS is glitchy as hell.

Live coverage on the TWIT network for those interested:

TWIT Network

[QUOTE="DroidPhysX"][QUOTE="black_cat19"]

Do you have any links? Or are we just going to have to take your word for it?

black_cat19

Is that so...? Well, I still think it's common courtesy to include a link when making a news thread, especially when when you're making claims.

Here:

Yahoo

There's not even a full article on it yet, as far as I can tell.

just found out about this. I dont even know what to say, i have to admit i am very saddend. he has done so much for technology.

RIP Steve :(

Sad to hear, never been huge into Apple but there's no denying he changed the way most of us live.

WOw. This is shocking. It's also on cnn. That's sad. wow. speechless.anbu-black-ops

he was only 56...i dont know..its unconfirmed how he died...i smell foul play

cee1gee

The news came as a surprise but his poor health explains it.

Disney will miss him
Pixar will miss him

Apple will miss him

everyone will miss him

Another victim of pancreatic cancer, along with my dad. They seriously need to research this murderous disease further and develop more treatments and eventually a cure.

Oh well, I hate the way Apple operates nowadays and what they've done with the mobile device market, but may he rest in peace.

Its not foul play: Its pacreatic cancer and liver cancer with a liver transplant to boot. He fought it for about 8 years. Same thing that took Patrick Swayze. Pancreatic Cancer is a silent killer, usually doctors dont know you have it till long after its spread to other orgrans (for example, a biopsy of a liver turmor will come back as "abnormal pancreus cells" meaning the cancer started there and not in the liver.)

RIP. I may dispise apple, but steve was still a cool guy