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Re:Dennis Ritchie: The Shoulders Steve Jobs Stood On by diminish on Friday October 14, 2011 @02:38AM (#3110258)
Agree with piccadily, my main critic of Steve Jobs is that he is the inventor of the iFanboyism and misused the teenage envies to create status symbol gadgets which tech-wannabes use to show off here and there. They continuously ignored the deficiencies of what they held in their hands previous lack of true multitasking, a notification system which sucked, a walled garden which excluded threatening businesses, a simple button interface which didnt have widgets etc). However those iFanboys polluted all true tech discussions, by bringing such constructs to tech discussions like 'I love my ' , 'I browse the internet with my ...', 'Non-iphone users stink, or are poor etc', to further enlarge the status-widget.

On the contrary, Dennis Ritchie and other great tech people talked to our minds, for example, to give us a philosophy of how to create small programs to combine in a Lego fashion to create bigger ones (Unix philosophy), or to better program the machine underneath with a versatile language such as C. They are far more profound.

Second sad fact is that Steve Jobs gave minimal back to open source community (for example, BSD..), and defended a world where the company milks the users to the full limit.

Re:Dennis Ritchie: The Shoulders Steve Jobs Stood On by uriel on Friday October 14, 2011 @06:58AM (#3110720)
> However those iFanboys polluted all true tech discussions, by bringing such constructs to tech discussions like 'I love my ' , 'I browse the internet with my ...', 'Non-iphone users stink, or are poor etc', to further enlarge the status-widget.

Don't forget one of the worst forms of iPollution: "Sent from my iFoo". Why should people reading your messages care?

Re:Dennis Ritchie: The Shoulders Steve Jobs Stood On by ssharp on Friday October 14, 2011 @07:40AM (#3110804)
My old Blackberrys did this well before the iPhone.
Re:Dennis Ritchie: The Shoulders Steve Jobs Stood On by dhimes on Friday October 14, 2011 @08:11AM (#3110848)
Agreeed. The reason was to ask to be excused for misspellings and sloppy abbreviations in the text of the message.
Re:Dennis Ritchie: The Shoulders Steve Jobs Stood On by uriel on Friday October 14, 2011 @07:52PM (#3113460)
Even if others did it before, it is still an annoying line noise.