What a brilliant article! Finally, someone lays it on the line. There is simply no place in this world for interesting industrial design. There should be only one computer, and it should be beige. There should be only one car, and it should be beige. The Soviet Lada or Chrysler K Car were very good ideas. There is no need for paintings, sculpture or fashions of any kind. All clothing designs should be standarized. So should architecture. There is no need for style. Michaelangelo, DiVinci, Frank Lloyd Wright, Jonathan Ive and Raymond Lowey are completely overrated. In fact, the only color should be beige. And comfortable furniture is totally unecessary.
Taking this further, GUI interfaces are a waste of time. All that is needed is a command line interface. A mouse is a useless accessory. I think the Taliban got it right in that regard. Perhaps we need a Department for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice to regulate that computer designs hold to a firmly applied standard. One company should be appointed to create all software to a rigid standard.
Mr. Katz really hit it on the head about Steve Jobs. The nerve of that man to propose innovation and radical thought. It's a danger to the fabric of our society. I think that Mr. Katz was most intrepid in showing the dangers of innovation by those miserable, gravy-sucking Apple elitists and their capitalist lackeys. I say let's put a stop to this now! Let's take all 5% of their marketplace and ship 'em to Guantanamo Bay! (And while we're at it, let's put everyone else we don't like there too. That would eliminate predjudice, because there would be no one left to hate.) Then, we can make the world safe for beige. End innovation now!
Sincerely,
Charles Ulmer Farley ("Call me Chuck!")
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What a brilliant article! Finally, someone lays it on the line. There is simply no place in this world for interesting industrial design. There should be only one computer, and it should be beige. There should be only one car, and it should be beige. The Soviet Lada or Chrysler K Car were very good ideas. There is no need for paintings, sculpture or fashions of any kind. All clothing designs should be standarized. So should architecture. There is no need for style. Michaelangelo, DiVinci, Frank Lloyd Wright, Jonathan Ive and Raymond Lowey are completely overrated. In fact, the only color should be beige. And comfortable furniture is totally unecessary. Taking this further, GUI interfaces are a waste of time. All that is needed is a command line interface. A mouse is a useless accessory. I think the Taliban got it right in that regard. Perhaps we need a Department for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice to regulate that computer designs hold to a firmly applied standard. One company should be appointed to create all software to a rigid standard. Mr. Katz really hit it on the head about Steve Jobs. The nerve of that man to propose innovation and radical thought. It's a danger to the fabric of our society. I think that Mr. Katz was most intrepid in showing the dangers of innovation by those miserable, gravy-sucking Apple elitists and their capitalist lackeys. I say let's put a stop to this now! Let's take all 5% of their marketplace and ship 'em to Guantanamo Bay! (And while we're at it, let's put everyone else we don't like there too. That would eliminate predjudice, because there would be no one left to hate.) Then, we can make the world safe for beige. End innovation now! Sincerely, Charles Ulmer Farley ("Call me Chuck!")