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Steve Jobs' Grand Vision
ejungle writes "The Toronto Star has an excellent article on Steve Jobs and his increasingly interesting role as head of both Apple Computer and Pixar Animation Studios. The article goes into the market pressures surrounding both companies, and goes a long way to explain their recent moves."
To make the world's most expensive, and largest cheese grater! He called it the G5!
Dear Apple,
I am a homosexual. I bought an Apple computer because of its well earned reputation for being "the" gay computer. Since I have become an Apple owner, I have been exposed to a whole new world of gay friends. It is really a pleasure to meet and compute with other homos such as myself. I plan on using my new Apple computer as a way to entice and recruit young schoolboys into the homosexual lifestyle; it would be so helpful if you could produce more software which would appeal to young boys. Thanks in advance.
with much gayness,
Father Randy "Pudge" O'Day, S.J.
Apple have come up with some innovative products, but their market share remains tiny. Sadly, though, many buyers have been mislead by the marketing and eye-candy, and desperately try to justify their overpriced purchases to themselves on forums around the Net. Let's see what they really mean...
"MacOS X is everything Linux wants to be."
"Despite the fact that Linux is just code and can't WANT to be anything, I truly believe that it'd love to be a single-vendor, single-platform, sluggish half-proprietary OS with dwindling market share. Linux would love to throw away its impressively growing corporate takeup for that."
"Apple hardware is for real computer lovers."
"It's no hassle to use a plethora of keyboard combos to make up for the patronising one-button mouse. Despite the fact that my hands have FIVE fingers, and multiple-buttons make Web browsing so much more pleasant, I prefer my computer to be treat me like a special-needs child."
"Aqua makes me so much more productive!"
"My non-techie friends drool over the transparency and scaling effects, even though UI research has shown that they add practically nothing to getting real work done. It feels like KDE 2 on a Pentium 200, and I can't change to a light and fast WM, but those drop-shadows must make me work so quickly!"
"OSX shows that Apple is committed to open source."
"OpenDarwin.org and its community of about 27 is surely not just a token gesture by Apple. Pretty much nobody uses pure Darwin, and all the crucial components of the system are closed and require me to spend money just to get major OS updates, but they're really helping the community somehow."
"You get what you pay for with Apple hardware."
"My iBook was made by in Taiwan by AlphaTop and has design and build quality flaws (needing foam sheets jammed in to stop the common problem of the keyboard scratching the screen). But it's silvery and cost far more than an x86 laptop of better spec, so it must be much higher quality!"
"...blah blah MHz myth blah..."
"Although there's truth in PPC being more elegant than x86, it's crushing that the top-of-the-range 1.5 GHz chip is slaughtered by the equivalent 3 GHz Pentium 4. However, Steve Jobs showed some vague Photoshop filter benchmarks at the last MacWorld, so being a leprotard, I'm convinced."
He has more credibility in Hollywood than anyone else (in Silicon Valley)
i.e. No credibility.
Learn hwo to spell, idiot.
Jobs is a hypocrite.
From a google search: "The exercise will be lost on the children of Apple founder Steve Jobs, however. He wisely doesn't allow his kids to watch TV, or drink sickly sodas, advocating Odwalla's excellent fruit juices instead. Do as he does, not as he says, we suggest"
Instant Karma's gonna get you, Gonna knock you right on the head (John Lennon, 1970)
.. if it results in 2% market share. But this is just me.
And oddly enough, consumers are choosing Linux over MacOS. Is everyone stupid, or are there other mitigating factors that you didn't cover in your sermon?
by Mike Buddha -- Someday the mountain might get him, but the law never will.
Don't misundersatnd me, but fuck Walt. This isn't 1956, anymore. How many Steamboat Willie's can you have? Cultures evolve.
Read about John Kerry the Hypocrite. [gop.com]
/., you cocksucker.
Republicans blow goats.
Keep party politics out of
Don't you just love our capitalist world. The poor whine and complain to the goverment for them to provide services that they fail to provide for themselves. Then the rich gets taxed. Then the goverment then finds a way to spend more money than it has, and has an excuse to tax the poor and middle class as well.
Now with a recession, a tax break on dividends and capital gains are given to "stimulate economic growth". So now the rich can just transfer their entire income into dividends and capital gains and say, "Ha ha, the middle class are such suckers."
When I get to the top, I'll probably do the same and start the whole cycle of abuse again. =)
In the article the analyst sleaze peddler whores, IDC and Gartner, talk as if they expect Apple, Jobs and Pixar to collapse any day now, and as if they are still dumb fucking struck that Apple hasn't gone under in the face of Bill G's $$$$.
I AM a Mac fan, I admit it without any hesitation, but I don't cut Apple any slack. But what drives me to rage is that these fucking dick sucking marketing whore sluts from these so called analyst companies still get quoted as if any piece of the shit they had to say had any relevance in the real fucking world.
"Apple's ipod will feel heat from Dell, MS etc in the future", "Pixar will anger Hollywood". Jesus, what do these stupids fucks have against Apple anyway? They were prophecising Apple's death back in 1997, and they are so fucking greedy for Bill G's $$$ and so fucking lazy to do some actual marketing research that they're still doing it today.
Stupid fucks were also as responsible as anyone for the crash of the dotcom fuckout, still praising dead dotbombs after the companies had already gone tits up.
I really have it in for those fucks today: Was it a part of their company rationalisation and down sizing to cut out the actual research in their companies or have they never fucking bothered anyway.
FUCK THEM!