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Steve Jobs is dead. Rest in peace old bean. Pancreatic cancer is not a nice way to go, kids.

I am a little annoyed though. Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds are as important, if not more so, than Jobs. And that's not counting the people involved in hardware development, strictly software. But either way, I know full well that when they die they will not be deified, because they don't have slick marketing departments behind them.

Oh well.

Apple/Intel Takes Gun, Shoots Foot

Can anyone explain to me how the new Thunderbolt interface is a good idea? Seriously, the initial offerings are no less than $1000 U.S., and you have to buy a $50 cable on top of that just to use the stuff. Yeah, it's faster than USB 3.0, but it is backwards compatible with NOTHING starting out. On top of that Intel is not adding native support to Ivy Bridge processors, even though they developed Thunderbolt.

This thing is well positioned to conk out in the PC market, it's just another hole to put things into, and there are only a few pegs for the hole and they are all made out of solid gold. I could see adoption, maybe, if some external graphics card devices (say, a box that you can put normal NVIDIA and AMD cards into and make them portable) appeared in the "$300 or less" range but I don't see that happening for at least two years, if at all.

This is perfect for Apple on the other hand, it's just like early Firewire: approximately three smug urban hipsters who call themselves "graphic artists" while conversing with females in attempts to get laid will use it...