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It's crazy that Jobs passed over 12 years ago already
by willsmith72 3y ago
It's crazy that Jobs passed over 12 years ago already
- tmpz22 3y agoIronic that Woz has a stroke and one of the first comments is an unrelated comment about Steve Jobs.
- zzaaqq 3y agoJobs had a stroke too… a stroke of good luck, when he met Woz
- tomjakubowski 3y agoWoz was lucky to meet Jobs, too
- Eisenstein 3y agoWhy? Woz was happy working for HP and would have had a great career and still would have built computers. He might not have ended up super rich, but I am guessing that doesn't really matter to him.
- musicale 3y agoWould have been interesting if HP had produced the Apple II and ushered in the personal computing era. But if HP had been interested in doing so, then Woz might have stayed there to begin with.
- SV_BubbleTime 3y agoNo one knows for, but I’m pretty sure that isn’t irony.
- jamesjamesm 3y agoHow is that ironic?
- benatkin 3y agoNot ironic, maybe inappropriate, especially if his health is rapidly declining. Since I believe, and really want to believe, he's got a lot of good years ahead of him, I'm glad to see people speaking freely.
- elromulous 3y agoIt's crazier that Dennis Richie passed right around the same time as Jobs, and didn't get any of the fanfare, despite having far more meaningful contributions to the field (to say the least), while being a humble, decent, human being.
- huytersd 3y agoEven being in tech I only somewhat know about him. Jobs was a larger than life figure that average people knew.
- benatkin 3y agoThe age gap explains a lot of difference for me. I expected it with Douglas Adams. They should make a big deal about it when someone passes at such a young age. (And 70 is also young) However, it was still too much. If Jobs' passing got 100x the attention, maybe it should have only been 10x.
- globular-toast 3y agoOddly, John McCarthy died within the same few days too, if I recall correctly.