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"a lot of people are developing a sense of entitlement regarding access to the device" Yeah, it's funny how people get these notions of fairness and equal trea

"a lot of people are developing a sense of entitlement regarding access to the device" Yeah, it's funny how people get these notions of fairness and equal treatment from somewhere.

unalone 18y ago
Yeah, they get it from a lot of crap in society that doesn't hold as true as people pretend. "Everybody should be equal" means that everybody ought to have an equal chance. That doesn't mean everybody should succeed equally. This idea that we should all be the same person is twisted and wrong and actively harmful. This applies to phones, too. You have a choice of phone. You know what phone I use? It's this model by Samsung that doesn't allow any applications because I think applications on a standard phone are bunk. I don't complain. I like that my phone makes calls and sends text. It's worth saying again, because people like you really like ignoring it to complain: Apple changed the mobile industry forever. The sheer existence of the iPhone changed the game plan of everybody else on the planet. Now the iPhone's been out for 2 years, and nobody has a user experience that comes close! I've used other multitouch phones. They're all pathetic. When the iPhone came out, it was the announcement of a vast reform in the way phones worked. Apple didn't have applications. Nobody cared. Suddenly, Apple releases this App Store, which has become a hundred-million-app success in a year, and people are complaining because this magical thing they didn't have before is imperfect. It's like Louis C.K.'s routine. Everything is amazing, and yet nobody is happy, because we all feel entitled. (I'm not saying complaining is bad if it's constructive, but your response unlike the OP's was just lazy and fat and ugly and I hate that attitude.) You don't like Apple? Go buy other phones. Buy one like mine, with small keys and a bad screen, because that's all you're getting from other groups until Apple made their phone. Revel in the lack of user experience. Note the lack of decent apps on those phones, too. You want equal treatment, you'd better stop dealing with the human race. I was forced into working in groups for classes in school, under this notion that we all can contribute equal parts. I got worse grades in classes because people would mess things up. At some point I started doing all the work myself, because I couldn't stand this equal distribution. It made me into a manager rather than an employee. I prefer the auteur route, where unless you have somebody as smart as you working on something, you do it yourself and don't complain. You don't like that? Say goodbye to art. Know who was dictatorial and unfair? Stanley Kubrick, who referred to actors as tools to be disposed of and who disliked all but a handful of actors (the rest of whom called him abusive). James Joyce, who produced two novels so complex that people refused to work fairly with them for years, who insisted on not compromsing his work. (Or Ayn Rand if you'd prefer something more "pop" - she refused the notion that anybody could edit her writing.) Pretty much everything awesome comes from somebody who's unfair and doesn't treat people equally and gets done the stuff that's supposed to get done. Now buckle up and stop complaining unless you've got a better solution.* *Switching to a worse phone system doesn't count as a solution.
- jimbokun 18y ago
  I think this Roger Ebert column I recently came across is appropriate here. http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2009/02/hunt_not_the_snark_but_the_sna.html http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2009/02/hunt_not_the_snark_b... It is really easy to take anything and find the bad or imperfect parts of it.
  - unalone 18y ago
    Great post! I love Ebert's blog.
- redrobot5050 18y ago
  This post totally made my day, until you actually implied that An Rand is awesome.
  - unalone 18y ago
    Heh. I like Ayn Rand. Most people that read her go way too far with her ideas (once you start spouting lines from Atlas Shrugged verbatim, you've gone too far, and too many people go too far), but reading her at sixteen got me largely out of the depressive "I'm a cog in the school system" mood I was in, and it has that effect on a lot of people. As far as books worth reading as a young adult go, The Fountainhead is way up there. It gets you happier and healthier going out than you were coming in, and even once you lose that belief that Rand is right about everything, she's incredible pulp reading, up there with Dan Brown. (A pirate philosopher meets a dashing Spanish copper miner? Come on.)
  - xenophanes 18y ago
    What's wrong with Ayn Rand? Besides her inductivist epistemology.
- StrawberryFrog 18y ago
  "This idea that we should all be the same person is twisted and wrong and actively harmful." ... and it's a chip on your shoulder, not mine. "Apple didn't have applications. Nobody cared. " That's not so. "You don't like Apple?" I never said that. "Go buy other phones." I do. Seriously, you got from "Delaying some applications randomly for three month or more is a bad business practice, it pisses people off" all the way over to "the great Stanley Kubrick and Ayn Rand were dictatorial and unfair and look how awesome they were" Bottom line, you're a ranting about things that I didn't say, which is rather sad. It gives your views a bad name. And gives Ayn Rand's fans more of a bad name, if that's possible.

"a lot of people are developing a sense of entitlement regarding access to the device" Yeah, it's funny how people get these notions of fairness and equal treatment from somewhere.

unalone 18y ago

Yeah, they get it from a lot of crap in society that doesn't hold as true as people pretend. "Everybody should be equal" means that everybody ought to have an equal chance. That doesn't mean everybody should succeed equally. This idea that we should all be the same person is twisted and wrong and actively harmful. This applies to phones, too. You have a choice of phone. You know what phone I use? It's this model by Samsung that doesn't allow any applications because I think applications on a standard phone are bunk. I don't complain. I like that my phone makes calls and sends text. It's worth saying again, because people like you really like ignoring it to complain: Apple changed the mobile industry forever. The sheer existence of the iPhone changed the game plan of everybody else on the planet. Now the iPhone's been out for 2 years, and nobody has a user experience that comes close! I've used other multitouch phones. They're all pathetic. When the iPhone came out, it was the announcement of a vast reform in the way phones worked. Apple didn't have applications. Nobody cared. Suddenly, Apple releases this App Store, which has become a hundred-million-app success in a year, and people are complaining because this magical thing they didn't have before is imperfect. It's like Louis C.K.'s routine. Everything is amazing, and yet nobody is happy, because we all feel entitled. (I'm not saying complaining is bad if it's constructive, but your response unlike the OP's was just lazy and fat and ugly and I hate that attitude.) You don't like Apple? Go buy other phones. Buy one like mine, with small keys and a bad screen, because that's all you're getting from other groups until Apple made their phone. Revel in the lack of user experience. Note the lack of decent apps on those phones, too. You want equal treatment, you'd better stop dealing with the human race. I was forced into working in groups for classes in school, under this notion that we all can contribute equal parts. I got worse grades in classes because people would mess things up. At some point I started doing all the work myself, because I couldn't stand this equal distribution. It made me into a manager rather than an employee. I prefer the auteur route, where unless you have somebody as smart as you working on something, you do it yourself and don't complain. You don't like that? Say goodbye to art. Know who was dictatorial and unfair? Stanley Kubrick, who referred to actors as tools to be disposed of and who disliked all but a handful of actors (the rest of whom called him abusive). James Joyce, who produced two novels so complex that people refused to work fairly with them for years, who insisted on not compromsing his work. (Or Ayn Rand if you'd prefer something more "pop" - she refused the notion that anybody could edit her writing.) Pretty much everything awesome comes from somebody who's unfair and doesn't treat people equally and gets done the stuff that's supposed to get done. Now buckle up and stop complaining unless you've got a better solution.* *Switching to a worse phone system doesn't count as a solution.

jimbokun 18y ago
I think this Roger Ebert column I recently came across is appropriate here. http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2009/02/hunt_not_the_snark_but_the_sna.html http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2009/02/hunt_not_the_snark_b... It is really easy to take anything and find the bad or imperfect parts of it.
- unalone 18y ago
  Great post! I love Ebert's blog.
redrobot5050 18y ago
This post totally made my day, until you actually implied that An Rand is awesome.
- unalone 18y ago
  Heh. I like Ayn Rand. Most people that read her go way too far with her ideas (once you start spouting lines from Atlas Shrugged verbatim, you've gone too far, and too many people go too far), but reading her at sixteen got me largely out of the depressive "I'm a cog in the school system" mood I was in, and it has that effect on a lot of people. As far as books worth reading as a young adult go, The Fountainhead is way up there. It gets you happier and healthier going out than you were coming in, and even once you lose that belief that Rand is right about everything, she's incredible pulp reading, up there with Dan Brown. (A pirate philosopher meets a dashing Spanish copper miner? Come on.)
- xenophanes 18y ago
  What's wrong with Ayn Rand? Besides her inductivist epistemology.
StrawberryFrog 18y ago
"This idea that we should all be the same person is twisted and wrong and actively harmful." ... and it's a chip on your shoulder, not mine. "Apple didn't have applications. Nobody cared. " That's not so. "You don't like Apple?" I never said that. "Go buy other phones." I do. Seriously, you got from "Delaying some applications randomly for three month or more is a bad business practice, it pisses people off" all the way over to "the great Stanley Kubrick and Ayn Rand were dictatorial and unfair and look how awesome they were" Bottom line, you're a ranting about things that I didn't say, which is rather sad. It gives your views a bad name. And gives Ayn Rand's fans more of a bad name, if that's possible.