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libertangoJack Shafer has a great piece in Slate. Lead paragragh:
"I don't hate Apple. I don't even hate Apple-lovers. I do, however, possess deep odium for the legions of Apple polishers in the press corps who salute every shiny gadget the company parades through downtown Cupertino as if they were members of the Supreme Soviet viewing the latest ICBMs at the May Day parade."
Da!
I remain deeply conflicted about Apple and Interim-President-For-Life Idi Amin Jobs. Sure, I deeply admire Jobs' recent commencement speech at Stanford. But the blunt truth is, Jobs is such an out-and-out control freak he makes BillG look like an anarchist libertine, and over the years he's behaved in far more monopolistic ways. The great irony of the "1984" ad is that Apple is pretty much the last-man-standing sole vendor of a purely proprietary integrated hardware-and-software system. Because Steve has never really played all that well with others. And the decades-long feud between Jobs and Mike Markkula -- briefly referred to in the Stanford speech, though I didn't notice anyone else mention it -- is one of the great undercovered stories in computing.
Ah, well. To paraphrase someone wise, everything is a trade-off.
"I don't hate Apple. I don't even hate Apple-lovers. I do, however, possess deep odium for the legions of Apple polishers in the press corps who salute every shiny gadget the company parades through downtown Cupertino as if they were members of the Supreme Soviet viewing the latest ICBMs at the May Day parade."
Da!
I remain deeply conflicted about Apple and Interim-President-For-Life Idi Amin Jobs. Sure, I deeply admire Jobs' recent commencement speech at Stanford. But the blunt truth is, Jobs is such an out-and-out control freak he makes BillG look like an anarchist libertine, and over the years he's behaved in far more monopolistic ways. The great irony of the "1984" ad is that Apple is pretty much the last-man-standing sole vendor of a purely proprietary integrated hardware-and-software system. Because Steve has never really played all that well with others. And the decades-long feud between Jobs and Mike Markkula -- briefly referred to in the Stanford speech, though I didn't notice anyone else mention it -- is one of the great undercovered stories in computing.
Ah, well. To paraphrase someone wise, everything is a trade-off.
