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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Job's Afterlife :That's why I don't put on-off switches on Apple devices

Steve Jobs Didn't Want Apple Devices to Have an Off Switch - Yahoo! News
How the afterlife informed Apple's design:

I remember sitting in his back yard in his garden one day, and he started talking about God. He said, "Sometimes I don't. It's 50-50. But ever since I've had cancer I've been thinking about it more, and I find myself believing a bit more. Maybe that's because I want to believe in an afterlife, that when you die it doesn't just all disappear. The wisdom you've accumulated, somehow it just lives on." But then he paused for a second and he said, "Yeah but sometimes I think it's like an on-off switch. Click, and you're gone," he said. Paused again and said, "And that's why I don't put on-off switches on Apple devices."

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