CBS News - This is a rare moment in the tech annals. Samsung has delayed a much-anticipated product launch that had been planned next week in conjunction with Google. The reason? The death of Steve Jobs.
“Samsung and Google decide to postpone the new product announcement at CTIA Fall,” the company said today in a statement. “We agree that it is just not the right time to announce a new product. New date and venue will be shortly announced.”
Son of a bitch… I need this new phone and I need it yesterday, and now a dead man is preventing me from getting it quicker. Apple fucks with me, even from beyond the grave.
RIP Steve Jobs: 1955-2011
You have to admit that Steve Jobs was a genius – a brilliant innovator and businessman. He took a failing company and transformed it into an innovative, popular and technologically influential force that is received positively by almost everyone.
As much as I rip on Apple and their fanboys, you have to respect what the company has done along the way and how they have influenced the tech industry. They really know how to market products and sell the shit out of them.
Here is one brilliant video of Jobs in 1997, before Apple came all the way back to become a market leader. There’s something about this video that I just find interesting. Some guy is ripping Jobs apart and his response is just brilliant.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF-tKLISfPE
Two quotes to remember, which every software and hardware company should go by:
“You can only please some of the people some of the time.”
“You’ve gotta start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can’t start with the technology and try to figure out where you’re going to sell it.“
PS – what’s the over/under Apple stock goes down more than 10% tomorrow? I’m going over. -11%
HA! Steve Jobs misses his first event in years and what ends up happening? No iPhone 5. Just a measly iPhone 4S and a 5% drop in Apple stock. Same exact thing as the iPhone 4, but with better guts. Bahahaha, what a waste. Android already has phones with better hardware (none of which I’m a fan of, unfortunately). It’s a damn shame all of the tech blogs on my news reader are taking about this stupid ass phone like it’s the end of the world.
Fucking Apple. I can’t wait to get me a Nexus Prime. This thing better be designed to piss all over the iPhone 4S. Like… Samsung should literally not even release it until it is better.
