And just like that, the death and surrounding melee of noted Apple co-founder Steve Jobs has sparked a minor backlash. As we mentioned earlier, several people took umbrage with the fact that a few spunky nerds held an iPhone vigil for Jobs in Dolores Park last night. Heated words for mourning Mac fans hit hard:

"Disgusting. A vigil for a telephone? How about one for the millions of congolese raped and killed in a war over the minerals needed to create laptops and phones that become obsolete in a matter of months so that a corporation can reap billions of dollars?!"

And:

"Are you seriously trying to hold a vigil for Steve Jobs during the high points of Occupy SF? What the fuck is wrong with you.

Gawker's Hamilton Nolan penned a thought-provoking and thoughtful piece titled Steve Jobs Was Not God. In it, he fumes:

Among my Facebook friends yesterday, more than one wrote publicly that they were "crying" or "can't stop crying" or "teared up" due to Steve Jobs' death. Really now. You can't stop crying, now that you've heard that a middle-aged CEO has passed on, after a long battle with cancer? If humans were always so empathetic, well, that would be understandable. But this type of one-upmanship of public displays of grief is both unbecoming and undeserved.

Real outpourings of public grief should be reserved for those people who lived life so heroically and selflessly that they stand as shining examples of love for all of humanity. People like, for example, the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, who—along with his family—was bombed, beaten, and stabbed during his years of principled activism in the US civil rights movement. Shuttlesworth died yesterday, the same day as Steve Jobs. He did not die a billionaire.

Here on SFist, some commenters noted Jobs' personal shortcomings.

Most notably — and most crazily — Westboro Baptist Church member @MargieJPhelps, using an iPhone, sent out the following Twitter message about the God Hates Fags ilk plan to protest the former Apple CEO's funeral:

And finally, the rapscallions at the The Onion posted a priority-setting piece delightfully called Apple User Acting Like His Dad Just Died.