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Cost 600 bucks. How does that help civilization. Oh maybe a few well pampered hipster's children get access to it, but how does that work for the rest of the wo
by catfish 15y ago
Cost 600 bucks. How does that help civilization. Oh maybe a few well pampered hipster's children get access to it, but how does that work for the rest of the world that averages 2 bucks a day income levels?
- wizzard 15y agoSo if something doesn't help every single person in the world, rich or poor, it's not a contribution? Wow, you have some high standards.
- burgerbrain 15y agoIf we're comparing it to things as ubiquitous as computer technology itself and electric lighting, then I don't think it is unreasonable to point out that the relatively exclusive nature of the ipad puts it at a disadvantage in such a contest.
- mikeklaas 15y agoThomas Edison did not invent electric lighting.
- burgerbrain 15y agoHe made it ubiquitous.
- mikeklaas 15y ago…kinda like how Jobs makes all the ideas he's accused of 'tweaking' ubiquitous?
- burgerbrain 15y agoI will repeat myself and again state that I am not saying that Jobs did not have an effect on society. I am saying it is not on the same order of magnitude as fucking electric lighting. Why must this be difficult?
- catfish 15y agoCorrect. And Yes. If its not effective for all, forever, its just a blip on the time line. A thousand years from now we will remember Einstein. Jobs? Not so much...
- icebraining 15y agoWhile I'm hardly an Apple apologist, I just wanted to remind that technology that is initially only available to the top-of-the-line models ends up on cheap models a few years from now, but only because its development was paid for by the relatively rich early adopters. In Ghana, more than 60% of people have a mobile phone, but that wouldn't be possible if the development of the hardware (both for the actual devices and the network infrastructure) hadn't been made cheap by years of development paid by the rich countries.