Creative Technology CEO Sim Wong Hoo dies suddenly at 67

Sim Wong Hoo, who founded Creative Technology Ltd. in Singapore before sparring with Apple Inc., has died. He was 67.

Sim Wong Hoo
Sim Wong Hoo

Low De Wei for Bloomberg News:

Sim died peacefully on Jan. 4, the company said in a Singapore exchange filing Thursday. “This is a sad and sudden development,” interim CEO Song Siow Hui said in the statement. Song, who was president of the Creative Labs business unit, said the firm will continue to realize its late founder’s vision and strategy.

In 1992, Creative became the first Singaporean company to list shares on the Nasdaq. By 2000, Sim was Singapore’s youngest billionaire. Creative won a $100 million settlement after suing Apple in 2006 for patent infringements over the iPod.

But it couldn’t keep up with giants like Apple.

MacDailyNews Take: R.I.P., Sim Wong Hoo.

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21 Comments

      1. Some will attack the messenger. Especially those vaxxed and boosted. They will lash out in a vain attempt to feel safe in a vulnerable situation. Psych 101: Self-protection.

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      2. applecynic is the reason why we need free speech – so the dumb ones identify themselves and all doubt is removed as to who they are. And yes, applecynic is dumb, dumber than dumber. Even dumber than dog’s doo doo. That really is dumb.

        1. So GeoB enlighten the class, what do ANY of those conspiratorial posts by Truth Detector have to do with the topic at hand – that being an article on the death of a prominent tech mogul?

        2. Because, you moronik fsck, he “died suddenly” like a lot of other people this year, no sign of ill health, main common factor; vaccination.

          Obviously the vax affected your brain for the worse

        3. So if someone “dies suddenly” it’s automatically because of a Covid vaccine and no other reason? Gotcha.

          Perhaps you missed this GeoB but there is Z-E-R-O, let me repeat that for you, ZERO mention of him having a Covid vaccine anywhere in the article.

          So once again I ask you, what does any of the articles that Truth Detector posted have to do with the article posted – that of a tech mogul who passed away?

          Remember, there is no mention of him having a covid vaccine.

  1. If the mRNA vaccine instructs your cells to produce 1 conponent of the SARS-CoV-2 virus (the spike protein); but actual infection instucts your cells to produce the entire SARS-CoV-2 virus, spike protein and all; and given the infectuous nature of the virus, almost everyone has or will have been infected at least once, how would the vaccine have a greater impact than infection?

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