Steve Jobs Lands Trustees Award; Also Gets Bronze Statue

So pathetic.

Looks like he's throwing up apple gang signs.

Why do some people have to die before people will start to give them the respect they deserve?

they should have had him holding an iphone 4 but getting awesome reception

I was hoping for a fat Stebe Jobs rather than a thin Steve Jobs statue...

no respect from me, he is just a greedy fortune 500 company CEO. his innovation at best can be the apple software(cause lets face it the hardware aint up to par), yet that thing is so restrictive its a hastle to work with, and expensive to even try to develop on it.

now the cult has a place to go to bow to there god LOL

"Award for changing the music industry with iTunes. "

Yeah Steve made agreements with the record industry the outcome of which was the jailing of iTune users in a drm locked-down nightmare. Of course the record industry is happy with the outcome. He was after all working to keep the consumer in the losing side. Steve Jobs contribution to music and the way digital media is consumed amounts only to a method for defrauding his gullible subjects.

Concerning the Statue for this swindler in Hungary, I can only say that it speaks volumes about the technological backwardness of these people. Someday they will look back and think about this tribute to this nefarious con-artist in the same way that some countries today look back at having collaborated with past dictators now almost universally seen as evil.

So when will StatueG, StatueGS & Statue2 come out?

@ del35

iTunes is DRM free. Has been for years

And to all the haters. Job's has done an incredible amount, if not the most amount of innovation in the computer and gadget industry. If he's not the leader then he's top 3 for sure. Anyone who says "no respect" is simply being an idiot.

Just because you don't like someone doesn't mean you can't respect them.

I think Job's was a completely douche of a manager, and he was absolutely ruthless and totalitarian with his ideas and market strategies. And yet every that you use today is better because of it. Windows 7, PC's, Software, GUI's, Phone's, MP3 players, tablets, music distribution, and the list goes on. You can be using a droid phone with google music, and have a windows 8 tab, and your still on the receiving end of Job's innovation cuz he drove so much forward.

I respect that.

in my mind it's Gates, Jobs for 1 and 2 spots, not really sure who to give first place to. They both excelled in different fields. Nowadays google with Schimdt is dominating pretty darn much everything.

MS revolutionized software, Apple revolutionized Hardware, Google revolutionized the web.

i give props to all of em

I see Sneaky is completely clueless about tech in general.

The only thing Steve was good at for the past 15-20 years was taking an idea that someone else came up with and marketing it well.

MP3 players, tablets, even smartphones like we have now all existed before Apple did anything.

look at android before iPhone was announced (hint: it's looks like a blackberry). Look at droid post iPhone (hint: it's freaking amazing)

look at tablets pre and post iPad

look at PC's pre and post Apple I and II

He never made a product out of nothing. He took ideas from everywhere. That was his genius. MP3 were basically dead when they released the iPod. RIM's CEO said that "touchscreen phone's would never work" weeks before the iPhone was announced. Everyone said the iPad would fail, etc.

Your thinking way to short term. I thinking the whole scheme of things. In the last year or so apple hasn't really contributed at all. Over the past few decades they've done a ton. Do you think MS, Google, IBM, intel, etc. would agree with what i just said. I think so.

The ugliest statue ever..

No that's how you are supposed to hold the iPhone, he just dropped his.

This is pathetic. I could think of FAR better people who deserve recognition like this. People who actually save lives for example...

I'm sorry... so Steve Jobs is a creative genius for having the research and development team take an existing product and improve it (and lock it down so you can only do what they say with it)? And then sued anyone who did anything similar? Also, don't attribute the Apple I and II to him, please. That was Steve Wozniak. Steve Jobs did marketing.

Whatever innovations they made with their products I cannot attribute it to Steve Jobs. I can attribute it to their research and development staff, and their programmers. To Steve Jobs I attribute horrific, dishonest, and unfair business practices to try to block any and all competition for something that somebody else did first, but maybe not as well. He was excellent at marketing. He had a good sense of market timing, and how to convince people that the piece of crap in his hand was the most incredible piece of technology ever created.

So, are they gonna sacrifice a virgin in order to communicate with Jobs in the netherworld?

I believe the ancient Romans have a patent on statues. I smell lawsuit!

A bronze statue for Steve Jobs ? I don't get it...maybe I'm looking at it wrong

What a waste of metal that could been used for something nice instead of a crummy pre-owned car-salesman looking statue

Yeah, Mr Job got China to cheaply manufacture drm infested locked-down devices with little connectivity, no user exchangeable batteries, and mediocre hardware; then had them placed in shiny cases for the toodumbtodotheirhomework to spend lavishly on and make believe they were as cool as the people they saw in the Apple advertisements. That is where many of the billions Mr Jobs swindled from his technologically preliterate fanboys went, not into actually manufacturing superior or revolutionary products.

That metal could have been used to render tribute to a truly revolutionary thinker like Dennis Ritchie, the man behind much of what is great today in programming and software. When Dennis died in Sept this year, the public barely heard of him. But when the archswindler Mr Jobs passed away, the media could not shut up. In many way Mr Jobs death was a shot of liberation for the march of technology. We don't need little shiny boxes housing locked-down drm infested crappy hardware for dumb people. In our diverse financially challenged world we need truly superior products that foster connectivity and open standards. That is what Dennis brought to mankind, but sadly he has not been given the tribute he deserves.

Snap off a few fingers and it becomes Apple giving the finger to its competitors.

OK I am seriously tired of this one, forget about the iPad completely and think about what the HARDWARE was like when the old tablet were out and what OSes were run on them? Wanna know the answer? BIG, HOT, x86 CPUs and Windows for an OS, there were no small OSes that could have made them usable, Windows was then (and still is ATM) x86 only. If Apple were to have made a tablet back then guess what it would have looked like? It would have been about as thick as the Windows ones since that is what was needed with that hardware.

It was not Apple that made tablets thinner and sleeker, it was ARM that allowed it, them making their CPUs and GPUs powerful enough and cool enough allowed tablets to be so thin. ARM is the one who changed the entire mobile industry, without their Cortex CPUs that power pretty much every smartphone out now neither iOS nor Android would be where they are now. The thinner and sleeker tablet was an evolution based on the available technology, you can even see this in the old tablets, as Intel made their CPUs smaller and cooler the tablets got thinner and thinner.

There, Fixed that for ya.

So true. But sure this statue will be all over the Apple church stores.

Statue looks like it was made of poop. Kinda fitting. Actually it would be even more fitting if it was made by Chinese slaves who were forced to sign suicide pacts.

its already green? i tough the statue was just installed, it should be shiny...

Someone spewed acid on it (usually done to make things look old)

Doubt its even solid, must be a hole inside at least where the heart once was. How many workers committed suicide to add to apples riches due to their horrible working conditions? That man could have changed that but he didn't, was more important to stockpile even more cash than make the life worthy of the workers who actually produced the items sold.

So yeah it was defiantly a hole at the heart space in the original!