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"I’ve said this before, but thought it was worth repeating: It’s in Apple’s DNA that technology alone is not enough. That it’s technology married with liberal a
by rblion 15y ago
"I’ve said this before, but thought it was worth repeating: It’s in Apple’s DNA that technology alone is not enough. That it’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the result that makes our hearts sing." - Steve Jobs
- cageface 15y agoThat guy is such a cheesy salesman. Apple has been lucky to face incompetent competitors.
- rblion 15y agoYou are such a cheesy hater. Steve is a hacker and a pioneer in many fields. Why do you hate him?
- cageface 15y agoI've been in the same room with him mid-rant. I'm guessing you haven't.
- rblion 15y agoI have not. I don't know him personally. What about him repulses so many people? I am genuinely curious. Please share, I'm sure a lot of us are wondering the same thing.
- cageface 15y agoSteve Jobs is many things. He's a tech visionary and a great communicator. He's also an asshole and a liar. Like many great historic figures, his good qualities are inextricably bound up with his bad qualities. I don't have any animosity towards the guy at all but I have to chuckle when he shovels out bologna like that.
- rblion 15y agoOK, that is what many different people say about him. Must be true. I wonder if he has changed any after being kicked out? I guess there is no genius without some form of madness. I respect him mainly because he is a product of the 60's counterculture and was able to infuse "cosmic consciousness" into technology. I'm glad you don't. So many people take it way too far. It's just a computer man.
- cageface 15y agoIf I could ask him one question I would really like to know how he sees his life's work from the perspective of his inspirations from the 60s. In some respects what he's done seems very much in keeping with those ideals (fostering creativity and an appreciation for beauty) and in others totally antithetical (creating walled gardens, using the legal system as a cudgel). It goes to the heart of my own ambivalence about Apple. I like their products but I'm finding it hard to like the company lately.
- rblion 15y agoI would ask the same question! It embodies it in many ways but it contradicts it too. It's an odd feeling. Steve's reality-distortion field is that powerful! Do you think the company will change after Steve is no longer on Earth? I don't wish him or anyone death, but he is looking thinner and frailer every year. I'm sure his competitors are smiling though.
- darkandbrooding 15y agoAfter one-or-another of Dick Cheney's heart attacks, the news media spent some time quoting research about the way that life-threatening illnesses can change one's personality; how (of course) people react differently to such crises, but also how driven, egocentric men tend to refine and focus their priorities, and even to jettison qualms that they might have previously carried. It's not surprising to me that an ambitious man like Jobs, who (arguably) failed with Apple the first time around, then failed with NeXT, then became seriously ill while leading a resurgent Apple, might decide that the touchy-feely bits of his youthful worldview are less important than a more tangible legacy. I'm not saying it's the correct choice, or laudable, but it is understandable.
- cbs 15y agocheesy hater He may be, but your fanboy is showing. Woz was the hacker, Steve is a smart businessman with a good eye for style.
- rblion 15y agoA hacker is a someone who creates more with less, don't confine hacker to just software or hardware...
- ellyagg 15y agoSince Jobs returned to Apple, he's directed a sharp and rapid rise in the value of the company, including launches of several separate high visibility and impact product lines. But you already know this. Your claim is a lot like saying Michael Jordan got lucky to have such weak competition. I'm a fan. When something is good, the only rational choice is to be one.
- cageface 15y agoI can't deny that Apple has executed extremely well in the last decade. I use and enjoy a bunch of their devices. But their competition has also been really dumb and that's distracted from some of the genuine weaknesses of Apple's gear over the same time period. When you remember how badly designed and marketed the iPod's competitors were its success is less remarkable.
- tonyedgecombe 15y agoThis is true, I can't remember how many smart phones I went through from Nokia, HP, Sony, etc trying to find one that that was usable. All these companies were producing junk, in the end I gave up and went back to a dumb phone, until the iPhone...
- nazgulnarsil 15y agoA fucking piece of consumer electronics doesnt make my heart sing under any circumstances. What a poltroon.
- raganwald 15y agoI went to see Star Wars in 1977, I stood in line for hours to see the first showing in Toronto. There were no DVDs, not even VCRs in those days. I can now stream the trilogy to a tablet on my lap in bed. Yes, this fucking piece of consumer electronics makes my heart sing. That's because I'm living in a future I couldn't even imagine when I was fifteen, and lord how I tried to imagine the future. YMMV. It's fine with me if this doesn't blow your mind.