I never associated Steve Jobs with Apple's so-called "innovations", he was primarily a businessman. But I did associate him with Apple's iZombies stubbornness, ignorance and tech illiteracy. Because of this:
Jobs believed: "It isn't the consumer's job to know what they want." In so many ways, he was right. Most people love technology but aren't equipped to articulate what they want it to be like. But many of you are. And when Jobs' acted like you didn't have the brains to know better, it pissed you off. But you were in the minority.
I might be in the minority, but it is in my power to protect my less tech-savvy friends and family from the rip-off, useless products and I will keep doing so. Programmers, web designers and tech people in general are always a minority, but it's
their work that keeps the world running.
For years and years, Apple has been pushing underpowered, overpriced, unneeded hardware. So far the only impact that Apple made on
my life is forcing its competition to create more and more BS devices: tablets, AIOs, show-off underpowered laptops (VAIO); while loading the market with their own disgusting products. All these devices did is create a lot of hype and I feel that we could easily do without them. The only good thing they delivered to the market was a touchscreen phone (though I've heard that some companies released theirs before the iPhone), but the iPhone was just a push for some REALLY good devices. By itself, it was a pathetic toy and nothing more; at the time of the iPhone 1 release, there were tons of T9 smartphones that possessed far superior feature loadout and multimedia capabilities (Nokia N95, for example); and the situation repeated itself with every new iPhone model.
In other words, I refuse to believe in a widespread stereotype which holds Apple as a major innovator and the force that "overturned" the market. Some say that even Windows 7 wouldn't exist without Mac OS, because Microsoft wouldn't go any further after XP due to the lack of competition - this is nonsense; they would still want more money and hence a new OS. Again, all Apple did is create a lot of hype around its allegedly superior/safer OS and products that "just work". Thanks to them, nowadays everyone believes that Android/Windows are so incredibly complicated that it's only up to the geeks to use them, because Apple's products are "simple" and "easy to use".
Call THAT a POEM?!
You gave us joy.
You restored our sense of childlike wonder.
You enabled us to live in a world where
we always believed that something amazing & magical
was just around the corner
You are confusing childlike wonder with simple technical illiteracy and ignorance. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic; however, anyone who believes that this magic is one of a kind is surely a fool. Especially when such "magic" comes from Apple.
The first is the experience of being inside Jobs' "reality distortion field." People, it is a real thing.
I believe it is. I've met a lot of charismatic people in my life and such influence is indeed possible.
But that just gives me more right to blame Jobs for using his gift to delude and cheat weak-minded people. Most of the Apple users are poor, lost souls that will believe anything you tell them, they know nothing, NOTHING about hardware and software they're using and are convinced that overpaying for a MacBook is justified because "it comes with all the software". Open source and free closed source software which would allow you to have any other computer with more/better software for cheaper is brilliantly ignored, of course.
I regret that I never met him personally; it'd be a wonderful exercise to see just how far he would be able to brainwash me before my inner fuse would blow and I'd understand that something is wrong...
That doesn't mean we all went back to the office and wrote glowing reports of every little feature Jobs' had mentioned.
Maybe not you (although that obituary proves otherwise), but 95% of all other journalists. Thus all the free iPhone/iPad advertisement on the news sites.
I remember Jobs standing at the entrance to the staircase while at least two thousand people roared on the sidewalk. I remember several marriage proposals occurring in the crowd. I remember several women declaring their undying love to Jobs. I remember seeing little boys with Apple logos shaved into their haircuts. I saw celebrities. Here's one man's account of the scene to prove that I didn't hallucinate this event.
Yes, indeed. Typical iZombie ecstatic state. I personally like many companies, Asus probably being on top of the list, but I would NEVER allow myself to degrade to such primal state of craziness. Jobs did not create the devices which allegedly made their life so much better. He was just the CEO of the company that invented them. Why doesn't Intel CEO get the same admiration? Intel >>>>>>>>>>>> Apple in terms of making lives easier, if you count how many PCs their hardware runs in.
And so I wonder: what will the "in-line" experience feel like a week from today, for those of us who, for whatever reason, feel the need to purchase the iPhone 4S? Will people be sharing Steve Jobs memories and stories? Will the lines be shorter or longer for the 4S than they would otherwise have been, because of his death?
Of course they won't be. Many iZombies will even feel they're compelled to purchase a 4S just because it's a "memory of Steve".
In line at night for an Apple product, you strike up conversations with friendly neighbors, you pass the time, you make fun of yourself.
In other words, you waste your time and make a fool of yourself. I prefer to walk in the store, get the device I chose, walk out and get to use it. I don't like to waste time.
And Steve? His death won't change anything. Apple thrives on people's ignorance, illiteracy and stubbornness, as I've already said many times. Steve's death won't magically cure these problems. Rest easy... I hate your company and its fans with a burning passion, but a death of a human being is rarely an event to celebrate. Especially when it changes nothing.
No matter how you feel about Jobs, we know that as a reader of this site you have a personal opinion. That's what we love about you.
Well, that was my
personal opinion. Like it or flame it, I know I'm not alone.
P.S. What a curious coincidence: he died right after iPhone 4S has been revealed. Ashamed much? :lol:
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