Poignant Onion Article Discussion Thread

[Filuwaúrdjan]

There's nothing wrong in being upset at the death of someone you didn't know; empathy is hardly a negative trait. What is slightly odd about this is that Jobs didn't actually invent the products he was associated with; he was the manager and the salesman, rather than anything creative. Being upset at the death of the man that invented Product X I can absolutely understand, actually. Being upset at the death of the man who commissioned and sold it? Leaving aside the fact that early cancer is automatically upsetting when it happens to (almost) anyone...

I suppose this goes back to the idea of advertising as (increasingly) selling more than just the actual products; Jobs did a fine job of selling himself to the people that also bought his products.