... to not get why CNN is going all "Princess Diana" over Steve Jobs

[Bennifer]

seriously, I think it's very sad. But on CNN, they're going very OTT over Steve Jobs. Or Am I being unfair

He was 22 when he got his on off girlfriend pregnant. Yes he did at first deny she was his but if they only had an on off relationship maybe he had good reason to think she could be someone elses. He didn't deny her for years and years but accepted her 2 years later when it was proved she was his.
Lisa even went to live with him at one stage so he couldn't have been that crap a father.

Sad I know.

But Steve Jobs didn't invent anything really. He was the visionary who knew how to sell it to the masses.

Other people designed the gadgets that Steve Jobs managed to upsell.

Don't get me wrong, I have an Ipod Touch, Ipad2 and if I could afford it I would have an Apple laptop/PC. Love the kit

But just because the poor bloke has passed away don't make him out to more important than he was. (oh just like Diana then)

I think it is really unfair to judge a whole persons life by one mistake and mistake are something we all make, it's what makes us human

Hmm.

He had one of the greatest minds of our time, he was brilliant. [candles]

He was probably a knobber but that's not really why people are remembering him.

I couldn't give a shit what he was like as a person, its not the point. What he did in his professional life affects millions, and his achievements are worthy of some air time on his passing, even if he was a cock at home.

So, OP yehbutnobutyehbut you are both BU and not BU!

Good post aldi. I never met him, I have no idea what he was like as a person. I've heard good and bad, like most people. But I know that my life has been that much richer for his input. I realise how much every time I use my PC at work and thank God I don't have to take it home. I think it every time my mother asks me to sort out an issue with her mobile. So for that, I thank him. Simple as that.

He didn't invent the internet

Tim Berners Lee did whilst at CERN and made it available to all (in other words didn't monetise the IP).

Sorry, had to correct that.

I'm really going to have to get down wiv da kids where all this I-stuff is concerned as I don't know what you lot are talking about I can still remember getting excited over an electric typewriter and some Tippex!

And a Sony Walkman.

He didn't invent the internet

Neither did Sir Tim - he invented the World Wide Web, which is built on top of the internet which had existed for quite a long time before- dates back to the 60s. It was designed as a - literally - bombproof means of communication, and was widely used by universities. (I played Mornington Crescent on an internet forum before www existed!)

But, Sir Tim and Steve Jobs both contributed massively to using it in world-changing ways.

I don't even use iStuff myself but still very sad that such a talent has been cut short.

I know. I thought it would be fun to say he did. I was picturing him as a sort of Captain Picard/God figure doing his magic on the world with a big righteous finger.

Rest in peace Steve!

'iMake it so!'