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sausage
10-09-2009, 08:11 AM
He urged everyone to become organ donors. (http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10596377)


You've gotta be kidding me..... what a tosser.






SAN FRANCISCO - Apple CEO Steve Jobs returned to his showman role today, taking the stage at a product launch event for the first time since his nearly six-month-long medical leave.

Jobs, who had a liver transplant this spring, got a standing ovation. Looking thin and speaking quietly and with a scratchy voice, the 54-year-old CEO told the audience he had received the liver of a young adult who died in a car accident.

The new Nano unveiled today also has a built-in microphone, a pedometer, a 2.2-inch display and an FM radio tuner. It comes in rainbow colours and costs US$149 for an 8 GB version or US$179 for a 16 GB model.

Other changes to the iPod line include a beefier iPod classic, which now has a 160 GB hard drive for the existing US$249 price. Apple also added brightly coloured iPod shuffles and a smaller, less expensive version of the shuffle - US$59 for a 2 GB model.

TAT
10-09-2009, 09:21 AM
I'm already an organ donor, and I own an iPhone.

I'M STEVE ****ING JOBS

Lazlow
10-09-2009, 09:32 AM
You've gotta be kidding me..... what a tosser.

You have a problem with organ donation?

sausage
10-09-2009, 09:39 AM
You have a problem with organ donation?



Not at all, just the inherent creepiness of Jobs exhalting his new liver from some poor girl ripped in half in a car accident....








and oh, by the way.. here's my new iPod! Buy it!

Zan
10-09-2009, 09:44 AM
I hate Apple, but even I don't see it that way. It's much more like him carrying out his company obligation and using the opportunity to put a good word in for organ donation. First thing I'm actually happy to see coming from an Apple press conference.

sausage
10-09-2009, 09:48 AM
The most appropriate way would have been a specific press conference relating to the transplant only. Not in a stage-managed commercial presentation.

The guy's a commercial animal with no soul or empathy for other people; especially the girl's family.

Sad prick.

Lazlow
10-09-2009, 09:54 AM
Judge not, lest ye be judged.

Zan
10-09-2009, 10:10 AM
The most appropriate way would have been a specific press conference relating to the transplant only. Not in a stage-managed commercial presentation.


Hey guys! Look at me! I'm alive and in the public sphere again! Look at our stock value increasing!

He's the CEO of a multinational company, he really can't escape that no matter how he dresses it up. If he can reach more people on organ donarship through a commercial presentation then power to him.

igotnewsuper8systemWRONG!
10-09-2009, 11:11 AM
Steve Jobs makes me so sick with his 'still being alive thanks to modern medicine'

Vicious
10-09-2009, 12:25 PM
Over here it's called the Genesis . . .

Wait, what are we talking about again?