Apple's tribute to Steve Jobs, one year on. • Hacker News Board

mparlane wrote: post #5

ashishb4u wrote: post #2

just curious, why is the link "apple.com/?hn" ?

Because the link has been posted before, to get around the duplicate detection you append meaningless GET params.

More because http://www.apple.com/ did not opened the Tim's note, while http://www.apple.com/?hn did. It seems any random GET param is indeed meaningful in this case :)

Re: Apple's tribute to Steve Jobs, one year on.

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Post by seivan » Fri, Oct 05, 2012, 11:16 AM UTC

Removing their products from the landing page to pay tribute to Steve.

Would Dell or Samsung do this? Genuine question.

Re: Apple's tribute to Steve Jobs, one year on.

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Post by pooriaazimi » Fri, Oct 05, 2012, 11:18 AM UTC

codesuela wrote: post #11

Direct link to video: http://movies.apple.com/media/us/stevejobs/stevejobs-memoria... I used Movie Player to open it (Movie -> open location)

Direct download link: http://www.apple.com/105/media/us/stevejobs/stevejobs-memori... - 41 MB

(hint: I always download Apple videos (for future reference, and because my internet connection is really slow) and the trick is to replace "_r848-9dwc.mov" at the end to "_848x480.mov")

Re: Apple's tribute to Steve Jobs, one year on.

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Post by digitalengineer » Fri, Oct 05, 2012, 11:23 AM UTC

Music by Yo-Yo Ma I think: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZn_VBgkPNY

Re: Apple's tribute to Steve Jobs, one year on.

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Post by georgespencer » Fri, Oct 05, 2012, 11:24 AM UTC

seivan wrote: post #17

Removing their products from the landing page to pay tribute to Steve. Would Dell or Samsung do this? Genuine question.

It's a slightly fatuous question.

Do you mean "[in a world where Samsung or Dell had a public personality like Steve Jobs] would they remove the products from their landing page?" or do you mean "[if Michael Dell died] would Dell remove their products from the landing page?"

If they had someone like Steve they definitely would. They don't, so it doesn't matter.