Steve Jobs has passed away
 

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/ste...ry?id=14383813

This is being confirmed across the boards and on Apple.com. It's official folks. The cancer got him. :cry:

Holy Cow. I knew about his cancer, but I just didn't expect it to happen so soon. He was truly one of the visionaries of the twentieth and twenty-first century.

Holy sh*t...

This feels kinda weird right now..

Another legend gone. RIP, Steve.

He was a giant in the technology world. Turned Apple into the one to beat. His genius will be missed. My condolences go out to his family and those who knew him.

Without him it's likely none of us would be looking at this board at all. He truly changed the world.

I use Apple products on a daily bases. They have become so ingrained in my everyday life I don't know what I'd do without them. That is in part because of how versatile and all the gadgets he pushed for them to make.

I will keep all of my Windows-based PC's vs. Mac arguments to myself this time.

Rest in peace, Steve Jobs. You had some weird business models, but you were integral in bringing the personal computer to the average consumer.

Man, this is a shock. I knew he was fighting cancer, but I didn't expect it to take it's toll so quickly. :(

It really wasn't that quick....he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer 8 years ago. The 1 year survival rate on that is 20%. The 5 year survival rate is 4%. He lived 8. Pretty amazing really

I love my iPhone and I plan on getting the iPhone 4S next week. I just got my first Mac computer, the MacBook Air, a couple months ago and it's amazing. Such sad news. :(

Yeah, his 2005 commencement address at Stanford (where he mentions how he dealt with the news) is really amazing. They've been playing clips of it on CNN all night.

I figured once he resigned as Apple's CEO that his health might have gotten worse, but I figured he'd still be around for a few more years continuing the fight as he had been doing.

We're embedded with technology that even five years ago (iPhones, "Apps", "Twitter", e-readers) on a daily basis that it consistantly can make people forget that HUMANS create these, and humans must someday pass on. Remember, there is no tech in heaven, just your good old soul with lots of love. RIP and may God bless you, Mr. Jobs regardless who you believe in.

This is so sad... :( He was an amazing individual. I remember them teaching us about him back in school Many Many years ago. We had no idea how much life would change...

Conditions are so terrible at the Foxconn factory in China, where Apple products are assembled, workers have to now promise not to kill themselves after as many as a dozen people committed suicide there a few years ago.

Let's not pretend he wasn't a peddler of slave goods.

The man is dead. Why don't you just stop being an asshole and show some respect.

True...but he only retired for health reasons recently. That's the short time I was referring to.

You don't know that. If they can bring back Stockman, maybe they can bring this guy back, too.

Uh...Right...

RIP to a Legend in technology! :cry: :tcry: I'm on my iPad right now!