Assortment of Steve Jobs's personal property for sale by celebrity auction house
An online auction has started containing a large amount of Apple founder Steve Jobs' personal effects, including a leather jacket worn in a famous picture taken underneath the IBM logo.
The goods for sale have been culled from Jane Fonda's collection of celebrity goods, and is being held on Julien's Live auction site. Included in the sale are a box of home correspondence between staff and Jobs, many items of clothing, several lots of neckties, Jobs' electric razors, keys to Jobs' long-time property the Jackling House, and NeXT collectibles.
The items provenance originally stems from the caretakers of the Jackling House, and most of the pieces have been in Fonda's custody since Jobs' death.
The Jackling House was a historical property that Jobs purchased in 1984. After leasing it out to others for about a decade, he left the property un-maintained, and fought a protracted legal battle to have it demolished.
The residence was demolished in February 2011. Jobs died in October of that year, before construction of a new house on the property began.
The goods for sale have been culled from Jane Fonda's collection of celebrity goods, and is being held on Julien's Live auction site. Included in the sale are a box of home correspondence between staff and Jobs, many items of clothing, several lots of neckties, Jobs' electric razors, keys to Jobs' long-time property the Jackling House, and NeXT collectibles.
The items provenance originally stems from the caretakers of the Jackling House, and most of the pieces have been in Fonda's custody since Jobs' death.
The Jackling House was a historical property that Jobs purchased in 1984. After leasing it out to others for about a decade, he left the property un-maintained, and fought a protracted legal battle to have it demolished.
The residence was demolished in February 2011. Jobs died in October of that year, before construction of a new house on the property began.
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So much has changed now, that Apple has become the Goliath. I am immensely impressed that they seem to have held on to so many of their values that Steve pioneered in the early days, despite their size now.
He really did so much to advance technology and make it elegant and simple to use. That's the only thing I think Apple seems to be loosing in a significant way - is their famed ease of use and simplicity. Perhaps also their status as Mavericks daring to think different. They still do have a bit of that though.
I sometimes wish I could revisit those times. I'm probably forgetting all the crap we had to deal with (SCSI termination anyone?! Uh!)
Honestly I don't get it myself. Personal effects like this should be burnt upon death just to deny these morbid creatures their articles of faith. It is no surprise that Jane Fonda is involved here. Just another example of what is wrong with America.
Incidentally, as I look at many of the items -- esp. clothing -- it is a bit incongruous and fascinating (to me) how one of the greatest design aficionados of all time, one with perhaps the keenest eye for great industrial design ever, had some of the most pedestrian, even nerdy, taste in personal items. The one exception is the the beautiful (rectangular) Baume et Mercier watch.
Now replaced by offshore-retroactively-tax-avoidant-indefinitely-deferrable-retained... whatever...
rather, the fact that my senior parents are using iPads and iPhones is proof of the inverse -- that this shit is much easier today. and if you compare iOS devices to preceding devices (say, blackberries, etc), you'll realize that it's Apple who brought ease of use to the table. yesterday and today.
They had no idea.
So Hanoi Jane is seeking to make money on the abandoned items left behind of a former romance?
Boy that says a lot about a person...and so does the photos of her and her North Vietnamese friends.
Jane Fonda, a lifetime Hollywood millionaire, doesn't even give a thought to giving the proceeds of this auction to some sensible/relevant charity? These are, after all, old t-shirts--not your income stream so that you can continue living in the lap of luxury.