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Apple's competition for a complete inability to make decent shit that is at least in some alternate universe comparable in quality to what Apple produces, minus

Apple's competition for a complete inability to make decent shit that is at least in some alternate universe comparable in quality to what Apple produces, minus a crazy genius' ego. If you want this, lobby for patent reform.

ugh 17y ago
Patents are not the whole story. I doubt any other company cares as much as Apple about how the bottom side of their laptops looks. I don’t think you can patent that.
- rufo 17y ago
  I'm not sure you get that kind of attention to detail without a crazy genius's ego.
  - ahoyhere 17y ago
    You can get it anywhere you take a normal, passionate person and then don't rape that passion with stupid bosses and committees.
    - api 17y ago
      You need the crazy dictator's ego to suppress the formation of the normal corporate culture of stupid bosses and committees. MBAs and marketing droids are like mosquitoes on a warm summer night near a swamp, and you need eternal vigilance a lot of DEET to keep them away. The most valuable thing Jobs does is suppress the bozo explosion that invariably occurs at successful companies. http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/02/how_to_prevent_.html http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/02/how_to_prevent_.html
      - ahoyhere 17y ago
        Yes, totally -- but you presuppose that there has to be a large corporation to use passion at all. To create a perfect global supply chain that produces complex electronic devices -- yes. But not for lots of other things. You simply don't need the other people to begin with. If there's no middle management, you don't need a crazy genius to suppress its horribleness. I'm protecting my passion by quitting all client work. :) It made a real difference for me.
gte910h 17y ago
Or copyright reform, or cell phone law reform. If you were, by law, allowed to unlock the phone, and they had to allow it, then 99% of Steve Job's crap wouldn't matter.
- sunchild 17y ago
  And the phone also would not exist.
  - Qz 17y ago
    That's a bogus argument.
  - Vivtek 17y ago
    Right, because if Steve has any restriction at all on his genius, he'll take his ball and glove and go home, instead of ... making a great product and making a profit. Yours is a stupid argument that can always be whipped out to justify corporate abuse. Or any other abuse, for that matter.
    - sunchild 17y ago
      Setting aside your attack on "Steve", the point I'm making is that no one WITHOUT A PATENT has developed an iPhone, or anything remotely close. Prove me wrong. I dare you.
      - yetanotherlogin 17y ago
        How does A PATENT [sic] have anything whatsoever to do with whether people are allowed to unlock it?
        sunchild 17y ago
        I was responding to this comment: "If you want this, lobby for patent reform."
      - 17y ago

ugh 17y ago

Patents are not the whole story. I doubt any other company cares as much as Apple about how the bottom side of their laptops looks. I don’t think you can patent that.

rufo 17y ago
I'm not sure you get that kind of attention to detail without a crazy genius's ego.
- ahoyhere 17y ago
  You can get it anywhere you take a normal, passionate person and then don't rape that passion with stupid bosses and committees.
  - api 17y ago
    You need the crazy dictator's ego to suppress the formation of the normal corporate culture of stupid bosses and committees. MBAs and marketing droids are like mosquitoes on a warm summer night near a swamp, and you need eternal vigilance a lot of DEET to keep them away. The most valuable thing Jobs does is suppress the bozo explosion that invariably occurs at successful companies. http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/02/how_to_prevent_.html http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/02/how_to_prevent_.html
    - ahoyhere 17y ago
      Yes, totally -- but you presuppose that there has to be a large corporation to use passion at all. To create a perfect global supply chain that produces complex electronic devices -- yes. But not for lots of other things. You simply don't need the other people to begin with. If there's no middle management, you don't need a crazy genius to suppress its horribleness. I'm protecting my passion by quitting all client work. :) It made a real difference for me.

gte910h 17y ago

Or copyright reform, or cell phone law reform. If you were, by law, allowed to unlock the phone, and they had to allow it, then 99% of Steve Job's crap wouldn't matter.

sunchild 17y ago
And the phone also would not exist.
- Qz 17y ago
  That's a bogus argument.
- Vivtek 17y ago
  Right, because if Steve has any restriction at all on his genius, he'll take his ball and glove and go home, instead of ... making a great product and making a profit. Yours is a stupid argument that can always be whipped out to justify corporate abuse. Or any other abuse, for that matter.
  - sunchild 17y ago
    Setting aside your attack on "Steve", the point I'm making is that no one WITHOUT A PATENT has developed an iPhone, or anything remotely close. Prove me wrong. I dare you.
    - yetanotherlogin 17y ago
      How does A PATENT [sic] have anything whatsoever to do with whether people are allowed to unlock it?
      - sunchild 17y ago
        I was responding to this comment: "If you want this, lobby for patent reform."
    - 17y ago