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Samsung, Google Cancel Launch Event Out of Respect for Steve Jobs (allthingsd.com)
7 points by divy on Oct 7, 2011 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



This seems really bizarre to me. Jobs was a fierce competitor. It's much easier to visualize him yelling "WHAT? Why the fuck would you delay the launch of a product because I died a few days ago?" than to imagine him appreciating this gesture.

At first I thought it was just an excuse for them being late with a product or event preparations. But using SJ's death for something like that seems so absurdly disrespectful I have to discount the possibility.




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