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The reason why my iPod doesn’t have an “off” switch

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Because Steve Jobs was afraid of dying:

“Ever since I’ve had cancer, I’ve been thinking about (God) more. And I find myself believing a bit more. Maybe it’s because I want to believe in an afterlife. That when you die, it doesn’t just all disappear,” Isaacson quoted Jobs as saying.

“Then he paused for a second and he said ‘yeah, but sometimes I think it’s just like an on-off switch. Click and you’re gone,” Isaacson said of Jobs. “He paused again, and he said: And that’s why I don’t like putting on-off switches on Apple devices.”

 

Steve Jobs: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity

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From here:

Steve Jobs pledged to use his ‘last dying breath’ destroying rival Google’s Android because he believed it was based on stolen iPhone technology.

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‘I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple’s $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong,’ he said.

‘I’m going to destroy Android, because it’s a stolen product. I’m willing to go thermonuclear war on this.’

Steve Jobs has had his “last dying breath” and I really hope he didn’t spend it fulminating about Android. Because, in the light of eternity, Jobs’ success, his brilliance at marketing gadgets, his wealth, power and the respect he attracted matters not one iota.

Shiny plastic heroes

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The shrines to Princess Diana were bad enough but, such is the price of technological progress, now we have iShrines erected to Steve Jobs along with weeping women and sniffling men.

We do need heroes, of course, but we seem to have developed an uncanny knack for picking the wrong people: the day Diana died, Mother Teresa died; the day President Kennedy died, C. S. Lewis died. On October 5th, 2011, Steve Jobs died; so did Arthur Leroy Brooks of Stratford but he is ignored even though he didn’t fill the world with irritating mobile phones whose batteries can’t be changed unless you send them back to the factory.

Apple Computer censors the Manhattan Declaration

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Steve Jobs and Apple have always been in favour of gay marriage – and censorship, it seems. Apple has removed an iPhone application based on the Manhattan Declaration because Apple has deemed it “anti-gay” and has taken upon itself the role of moral nanny for its easily corrupted plebeian users.

From here:

The “Manhattan Declaration” app, made by a group with the same name, as well as by evangelist Chuck Colson, asks users four “yes” or “no” questions:

1) Do you believe in the sanctity of marriage between a man and a woman?

2) Do you believe in protecting life from the moment of conception?

3) Do you support same-sex marriage?

4) Do you support the right of choice regarding abortion?

Pretty corrupting stuff that – I’m going for a cold shower now.