Steve Jobs To Appear On US Postage Stamp 184
Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes "Steven Musil writes at Cnet that the US Postal Service hopes Steve Jobs can do for it what he once did for Apple as the late Apple co-founder will be featured on a commemorative US postage stamp along with Johnny Carson, Ingrid Bergman, Elvis Presley, and James Brown. The former Apple CEO's stamp is still in the design stages and will be released at some point in 2015. Jobs, who passed away in 2011 after a battle with pancreatic cancer, has also been posthumously honored for his visionary achievements with a special Grammy Merit Award and a Disney Legends Award. Jobs was also inducted into the Bay Area Business Hall of Fame, has had a building at Pixar named after him, and was featured in an exhibit at the US Patent Office Museum. "The profitable first class mail business has been decimated by email over the past decade, thanks in no small part to the contributions of Steve Jobs and Apple," writes Derek Kessler. "It's no small feat to be so impactful that the USPS feels compelled to honor you despite the fact that the work that you've done is dismantling the core of their business.""
Obviously.. (Score:5, Funny)
... the stamp will be a little bit more expensive than usual and it comes only in 2 colors.
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And don't forget the rounded corners!!!
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Funny you should mention that - the latest issue 'Forever' international stamps are in fact round [usps.com].
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despite the fact that the work that you've done is dismantling the core of their business
Yes, all the advances made in email, texting & IMing were made possible by Apple.
No wonder journalists are considered a joke these days.
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I haven't bought an actual postage stamp in US or UK since....
Maybe 2001?
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What advances are those? All the advances I can think of that they're known for were done by other people.
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I'm not seeing any understanding of sarcasm. Reading comprehension problems?
Some contribution? Just being there doesn't count. They've made no significant contribution to it in any way.
From the biased linked company bullshit Since determining the client in which an email is opened requires images to be displayed, the data for some email clients and mobile devices might be over- or under-represented due to automatic image blocking.
Useless statistics considering how many mail clients block images. This data i
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You could say that, but you'd sound as silly as somebody saying that Google is responsible for the popularity of cell phones. In much the same way that everyone was already using email by the time Apple got into the mobile devices market, everyone was already talking on a cell phone by the time Google entered that market. It's junky, misleading weasel talk. Sure, both companies can be credited with enabling X users or Y traffic, but the wheels were already turning... they made contributions to the method of
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So what you're saying is that Justin Bieber invented the gramophone?
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F8ck the Jobs.
I WANT the JAMES BROWN stamp!
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Seriousy, fuck that guy.
He was an asshole without a shred of human decency. If you're going to put an Apple founder on a stamp it should be Woz.
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Over Woz'es dead body...
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Steve did have a shred of human decency.
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Why, you want to lick him or stamp on him?
Re:Obviously.. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Obviously.. (Score:4, Funny)
As long as you're going for novelty why not a Jerry Garcia stamp? When you lick it you're dosed with a small amount of LSD. Initially the stamp is simply a black and white image, but after a few minutes, wow!
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No Forever Stamps either. You'll definitely have to buy another one in a few months.
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And if you try to use the stamp to pay a medical bill it will come back ""returned to sender." Letters to your guru or the guy who runs the juice bar will go through. And obviously the stamps expire after six months.
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... the stamp will be a little bit more expensive than usual and it comes only in 2 colors.
and 5 fruity flavors.
Re:Obviously.. (Score:4, Funny)
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and from now on, any other stamp which is made and is "squared" will get sued
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Re:Obviously.. (Score:5, Funny)
Also, it will only work with Apple envelopes.
Finally (Score:5, Funny)
Everyone can give his backside a lick.....
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I hate the taste of stamp glue, so I lick my thumb and wet the stamp with my thumb, doe that count, too?
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No, but if you use your middle finger instead that counts as a win for the rest of us.
Rod Serling (Score:5, Interesting)
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Poor Larry Ellison!
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We can hope for an Ellison stamp soon. It's too late for the 2009 Obama Half Dollar, though.
Stamp will cost $4 (Score:5, Funny)
Stamp will cost $4, do the same thing that $0.49 stamp does but have stylistic design. If anything goes wrong, you throw the whole letter out and buy a new one based on someone else's refurbished mail. If you mention this bad experience online, ten thousand Steve Jobs fanboys attack your inbox with gay pornography to "open your mind."
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but have stylistic design.
You mean like rounded corners?
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And it is only compatible with letterboxes from one company.
Chinese Stamp? (Score:4, Interesting)
Considering that apple out-sourced all of their manufacturing overseas, it seems that China and not the USA should be the ones honouring Steve Jobs with a stamp.
Alternatively, if the USPS wants to honour Steve Jobs in a historically accurate way, they could design the stamp in the USA, have China produce the stamps, and then sell those Chinese made stamps to Americans.
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Overseas would be OK. Had it not been more about taking advantage of indentured, and child labor than creating good jobs for people in need.
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Don't know about their other products, but much of the iPhone is manufactured in the US. The RF Chip, Audio Chip, Gorilla Glass, CPU and other controller chips are all made in the US.
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Side note: Apple is opening a plant in Mesa, Arizona and will employ about 700 people. http://cdn2.geeknation.com/gee... [geeknation.com]
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Way to back that up with a source [nytimes.com]. (Since Jobs death, some manufacturing is moving back)
Also, go suck an egg with that elitist who cares about low tier jobs attitude.
DRM, copyright, trademarked (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe they'll be OK with the stamp DRM'ed.
Forget Jobs (Score:1)
Re:Forget Jobs (Score:4, Funny)
Bieber stamp: Costs $4 but is worthless for postage, looks like a drunk lesbian, adhesive has bad taste and won't stick to envelopes
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So, another six months at this rate.
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We were all hoping for a more proactive solution.
Pathetic (Score:5, Insightful)
Yes, let's honor a "man" who was a billionaire who refused to acknowledge his daughter's existence for 17 years, while she and her mother lived paycheck to paycheck. While this was going on, he named a computer after her.
Re:Pathetic (Score:5, Insightful)
I kind of agree. Even without the personal baggage, I'd feel better if our stamps honored contributions to humanity, not stylistic creativity, monopolistic business strategies, or modern day robber baron philosophy. I recognize his contribution to technological progress, I just don't think, on balance, that we should honor him with a stamp. That's just my gut reaction...I could be wrong.
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I recognize his contribution to technological progress
I don't. He was a miserable human being with very limited technical skills that had a knack for knowing what would sell, and of making the public believe he was responsible for the work done by others.
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Obvious Haterade is obvious. And tired. You guys have to dig up 30 year old material for the "Jobs is a asshole" storyline, and pretend that he personally took credit for designing the iMac, iPod, iPhone, etc. When that's not the case.
"Contribution to technological progress" (Score:2)
By that standard it should be a Steve Wozniak stamp.
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Albert Einstein was a shit in his personal life too, doesn't mean we can't honor his work.
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Yes, let's honor a "man" who was a billionaire who refused to acknowledge his daughter's existence for 17 years, while she and her mother lived paycheck to paycheck. While this was going on, he named a computer after her.
You could ask Jobs' first daughter what she thinks about it (he had four children, by the way, including two daughters). For all that is publicly known, she was quite OK with her father, so it is very unlikely that she would protest against a Steve Jobs stamp.
On the other hand, whatever you accuse him of in his private life is actually quite irrelevant. If you think he shouldn't get on a stamp for being a bad father, then surely there should be at least a few thousand men put on stamps for being extraord
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While we're at it let's make a stamp of Adolf Hitler. He also was a bad person who advanced technology.
instead of artsy fartsy designer (Score:5, Insightful)
shouldn't Woz be on a stamp for whatever technological and contribution to progress the Apple systems have made?
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in 2011 the USPO said living people were eligible to be honored on stamps also
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Thanks, I forgot that. In that case, Woz should be honored with a stamp before Jobs. Without Wozniak, there would be no Jobs.
Don't be silly. That leech would have found someone else talent to ride on. Someone like Steve Jobs, free of human decency, free of morality, free to step on anyone, is bound to become millionaire and die of AIDS (don't fool yourself, cancer is a PR way of dying from AIDS).
I am still holding my breath for the Dennis Ritchie [wikipedia.org] commemoration and homages. As always, real contributor are robbed and marketing leeches reap what other sow.
Re:instead of artsy fartsy designer (Score:5, Insightful)
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stamps have short useful life, then certain ones go into realm of the philatilist. so it hardly matters.
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Pish... everyone knows Steve did everything and Woz was just there to reel in the hippy nerds? Geez, haven't you learned anything from Apple's revisionist history?
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in twenty years he won't, more than half of people won't even know or care who he was.
and on unrelated note, the new mac workstation looks like a camp composting toilet
Dennis Ritchie instead! (Score:5, Insightful)
Dennis Ritchie, the creator of the C Programming Language, along with Ken Thompson, co-creators of the UNIX Operating System, Brian Kernighan, and many, many others, laid the groundwork for ALL Operating Systems, and technology that followed. Linux, all flavors of UNIX, Android, etc... lead the world in O/S's, NOT Apple.
Steve Jobs would still be a amateur Geek in his garage if it were not for all the Giants of the industry that came before.
Considering that they only died 6 days apart, where is Dennis's stamp?
Dennis's home page: http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/dm... [bell-labs.com]
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I agree, Dennis should have a stamp long before Jobs... He won't though because the average person doesn't know who Dennis Ritchie is while everybody knows who Steve Jobs is.
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I am not going to lick the back of Dennis Ritchie.
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Which was - Nothing Useful / Being an ass! :)
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That's the reason to have stamps with them. Education.
Re:Dennis Ritchie instead! (Score:5, Insightful)
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+1 insightfull.
Sorry no points left, but it needs to be said.
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How about Jack Kilby? He laid the foundation for modern computing. Or the U.S.P.S. could put out a set with all of the major figures in the field of computers and their precursors.
Re: Dennis Ritchie instead! (Score:2)
https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/unix-hoax.html
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Steve Jobs would still be a amateur Geek in his garage if it were not for all the Giants of the industry that came before.
The whole computer industry would still be geeks in their garages if it weren't for Jobs.
That's not to say he's more important than Richie, but nerds like us need to recognise value outside of that which is purely technical.
Concerning stamps, you could put Balmer on for all I care.
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OTOH, Dennis Ritchie also gave us UNIX and C.
I'd say it's a wash.
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Dennis Ritchie, the creator of the C Programming Language, along with Ken Thompson, co-creators of the UNIX Operating System, Brian Kernighan, and many, many others, laid the groundwork for ALL Operating Systems, and technology that followed. Linux, all flavors of UNIX, Android, etc... lead the world in O/S's, NOT Apple.
Steve Jobs would still be a amateur Geek in his garage if it were not for all the Giants of the industry that came before.
Considering that they only died 6 days apart, where is Dennis's stamp?
Dennis's home page: http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/dm... [bell-labs.com]
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YES YES YES
"Steve Jobs To Appear On US Postage Stamp..." (Score:2)
... and I thought, "Like Hari Seldon?"
Would have to use a proprietary Apple envelope (Score:3, Informative)
You would have to use a proprietary Apple envelope, or the stamp wouldn't stick.
The Apple envelope would be prettier than a regular envelope, but cost twice as much, too.
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Yes, proprietary like BSD/DDR/IDE/SATA/Ethernet/802.11/Samba/gcc/html/Intel/mp4/aac/Bluetooth, etc etc.
Any jokes that ceased to be relevant in the 90's?
Instead..... (Score:3)
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I am for this.
Apple and Email (Score:2)
Huh? What the hell did Apple do for e-mail (beyond what every OS/application developer has done)? "OMG, they make computers, therefore, all things done on computers are their responsibility!"
Big Queues already (Score:1)
Will the stamp have rounded corners? (Score:2)
Just asking...
What about Dennis Ritchie? (Score:5, Insightful)
He died the same year, and was way more important than Steve Jobs.
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Revolutionary? Certainly not more revolting, in any case.
I wonder... (Score:2)
if Apple will sue the USPS for copyright infringement? Cause we all know Steve created the first postage stamp and I'm sure Apple has a patent for it somewhere.
Meh (Score:3)
Welcome to your Steve Jobs iStamp (Score:1)
(1) iStamp must be licked left-to-right;
(1)(a) laterally licking a non-iStamp stamp is grounds for patent infringement;
(2) any information derived from user (e.g. DNA) will NEVER be shared with third-parties (subject to exceptions below);
(2)(a) exceptions include but are not limited to: response to law enforcement requests; business servicing (e.g. billing purposes); or as required in iStamp's sole discretion to protect the intellectual property rights of iStamp;
(3) iStamp will only function when affixed to
Lame (Score:2)
Apple fanboys happy; haters happy too... (Score:2)
Now they can lick the backside of Steve Jobs.
Others can place him on the envelope skew; maybe tear an edge... then pound it with their fist just to "make sure it is attached."
Oh Steve Jobs... (Score:2)
Why does it have to be Steve Jobs? (Score:1)
The guy was a thief and a prick (Score:1)
I wouldn't know which side to spit on.
iStamp (Score:1)
It will be coming out in 2015 so they can attempt to settle all the naming disputes this will cause.
iStamp ... you should see the package it comes in!
One of these things is not like the others... (Score:2)
Carson? Big entertainer, loved by tens of millions for decades.
Bergman, Presley, and Brown -- same thing.
Then there's the odd man out. A man who bought out companies and technologies, refined and repackaged them, and made obscene amounts of money selling the resulting products.
Why, precisely, are we celebrating Jobs? Despite the ravening and vocal fanbois, it's not like he was anywhere near as loved and famous as Carson, et. al. He was just a lucky business man, not an icon adored by millions.
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That's not really the point. Apple was not instrumental in any way to to the development of email or any of the associated support technologies. It doesn't matter how good or bad the MacOS bundleware email client is. Apple simply isn't that relevant to the development of the Internet, email, or the web.
Even the connection with NexT is tenuous at best.