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Old 08-26-2011, 10:00 AM   #91
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He is not dead and we don't know why he resigned. We do know that he has been pretty seriously ill of late and most people are assuming that is why he is stepping down.

I think it is fine to give the man a few days, maybe even a week, before we start discussing what a jerk he was or how he stole our money.
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Old 08-26-2011, 12:40 PM   #92
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I think it is fine to give the man a few days, maybe even a week, before we start discussing what a jerk he was or how he stole our money.
Why not a month? Or a year? Is it equally fine to personally attack a poster who dares discuss, not what a jerk Jobs is, but specifically how his performance in the job he was in affected said poster?

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I did like the way Fictionwise ran their business. Steve Jobs helped take that away.

I don't wish cancer on anyone. I don't wish ill health to Jobs.

But hiding your heads in the sand about what Jobs & Apple did to eBooks is not going to change what happened.

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Well, I hope that others are kinder to you when ill health hits than you are to others. You are complaining about a hobby. A leisure activity. And you're starting to sound like Jeff Bezos.
If anyone doesn't want to discuss Steve's job performance, don't. Do not pretend that doing so is somehow the height of social impropriety and beyond the pale.
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Why not a month? Or a year? Is it equally fine to personally attack a poster who dares discuss, not what a jerk Jobs is, but specifically how his performance in the job he was in affected said poster?



If anyone doesn't want to discuss Steve's job performance, don't. Do not pretend that doing so is somehow the height of social impropriety and beyond the pale.
Oh, please. Get over yourself. I love it how people like to cherry pick sentences out of context. At the time I made that statement we were discussing Steve Jobs health.
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Bitterness? Do you know me? No? Thought not. Don't put words in my mouth. Thanks.



Maybe because when I wrote the comment we were discussing his health issues?
The poster you replied to didn't.
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Just wait 'til you get hollered at for top posting.
*snicker* Or someone brings up epub vs. mobi or Amazon...



...waits for it...
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*snicker* Or someone brings up epub vs. mobi or Amazon...
...waits for it...
Jobs was a secret admirer of mobi, ya know and he really wanted Bezos to replace him as CEO...
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Just wait 'til you get hollered at for top posting.


But back to the post....

Who cares ? I just really hate the way his business has seized control of a huge swathe of "music" under the pretext of saving it.
And by now,it doesn't matter whose in charge, it's a juggernaut....

But I'd love to be proven wrong.........
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This photo, taken today, should put to rest any debate about his health. Take a look at his legs!

http://www.tmz.com/2011/08/26/steve-...ation-ceo-sick
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This isn't a funeral thread. It isn't even a "Steve Jobs has cancer" thread. The notion that it is somehow impolite to criticize the actions of someone who happens to have cancer in their retirement thread (a common place to discuss legacy) perplexes me.
It's not the idea of impoliteness but the element of glee in some of the posts... the "I wouldn't wish cancer on anyone but..." types of comment. It's not impolite, at best it's childish and at worst purely vicious...
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This photo, taken today, should put to rest any debate about his health. Take a look at his legs!
The fact people post photos like that as "news" is depressing and in such poor taste. Like gawking at accident victims. Just imagine if that were your family member before posting.
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This photo, taken today, should put to rest any debate about his health. Take a look at his legs!

http://www.tmz.com/2011/08/26/steve-...ation-ceo-sick
That's just disgusting. Not the man in the picture, but the picture being taken and posted in the first place. I don't care much for the company, but I do feel for the man. My family lost someone to pancreatic cancer somewhat recently, and it was heartbreaking to see them that way.
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