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Essentially this article is what Salvatore dislikes about the iPhone 4 with two gratuitous paragraphs tacked onto the end about how he prefers to heroise those

Essentially this article is what Salvatore dislikes about the iPhone 4 with two gratuitous paragraphs tacked onto the end about how he prefers to heroise those motivated by democratising access to the best technology rather than financial gain. I can only assume it was a controversial attempt at seeking attention (page views). Even if you extremely dislike someone, it's best to maybe just keep your feelings to yourself immediately after their passing. Many people are in mourning and it's important to be mindful and respectful of that. Personally I believe Steve was not motivated by money, he took a token $1 salary and to what extent is unknown, worked until the very end of his life, even though he was acutely aware of his own mortality. I'm not an Apple fanboy and I don't deify Jobs, but I recognise and am grateful for his contributions. I also disagree with a lot things Apple has done in the past few years, but I think "What's wrong with the iPhone 4s" would have been just fine, and the rest is in slightly poor taste. My apologies if you think I'm being over-sensitive.

antirez 15y ago
I think part of the problem is that, from what I'm starting to understand, to talk in a critical way about a just passed away person in the US is a much bigger problem than in Europe. So you take as an offense or lack of taste what is completely ok here. I just said good things about the iPhone 4s itself, I'm probably going to take one. I just think that it is possible to build a company doing great things with a less closed vision, and with a less aggressive marketing. For years they had people buying products just for a sort of mystic reason, even when the product was not better at all. Now they make you pay a lot for a phone (630 euros for an iPhone here in Italy) and the next year you can't run the new features even if they are just software, even if you want to pay for the additional software. This is not a fair way to conduct business. This is a way to grab a lot of money, not to give access to the new way of communicating to everybody. Steve jobs concurred a lot in creating this kind of culture. I like less products Google is creating, and I use Apple products, but Google is a better company from almost all the ethical point of views. They try to stay in the business while contributing to the world in a wider sense, not just for their customers.

antirez 15y ago

I think part of the problem is that, from what I'm starting to understand, to talk in a critical way about a just passed away person in the US is a much bigger problem than in Europe. So you take as an offense or lack of taste what is completely ok here. I just said good things about the iPhone 4s itself, I'm probably going to take one. I just think that it is possible to build a company doing great things with a less closed vision, and with a less aggressive marketing. For years they had people buying products just for a sort of mystic reason, even when the product was not better at all. Now they make you pay a lot for a phone (630 euros for an iPhone here in Italy) and the next year you can't run the new features even if they are just software, even if you want to pay for the additional software. This is not a fair way to conduct business. This is a way to grab a lot of money, not to give access to the new way of communicating to everybody. Steve jobs concurred a lot in creating this kind of culture. I like less products Google is creating, and I use Apple products, but Google is a better company from almost all the ethical point of views. They try to stay in the business while contributing to the world in a wider sense, not just for their customers.