Writing for theSydney Morning Herald , Julian Lee does n’t quite hail up to Nick Farrell ’s heroic spirit level of jackassery , but he sure chip in it a try .
No sooner had Steve Jobs reconcile than the cognitive process of his canonization began .
GET IT ? IT ’S A RELIGION . BET YOU NEVER see THAT COMING . BOOM . IN YOUR FACE APPLE FANS . YOU JUST GOT SCHOOLED.SUNDAYSCHOOLED .
Genius , illusionist , even radical were some of the name used to describe the man who took Apple from the verge to the world ’s most valuable company .
Yet , once the hyperbole is stripped by , it may be that he was merely the gentleman’s gentleman who made us pass in love with pretty contraption , and made Apple shareholders immensely racy in the process .
Wait . It ca n’t be both ?
job made cypher sexy and packaged medicine histrion , phones and portable screens to make them the must - have item for millions . But he is shamefaced , among other thing , of leave to us a oecumenical cult of technical onanism from which we are unlikely to regain any time shortly .
Onanism ? Well , look likesomeonegot a Bible - of - the - daytime calendar for his natal day .
There are two path of reckon at this : you could either recognize that people get excited by engineering science because it enable them to do things they could never do before , or you could just think they ’re worshipping pretended idol . Lee has cull the latter and decided to blame it all on Steve Jobs . Who , by the way , is step down because he has genus Cancer . Just for context about the comity of the timing .
Carry on , douche from down under !
You ca n’t flirt with someone on a train if they are plug into a two - minute make of leisurely hearing .
Is that what this is about ? You bugging people on the train ? possibly those people never wanted to be bugged by you in the first station and are just using their iPods as an excuse . Did you ever retrieve of that ?
This is the same “ Technology is disconnecting us ! ” lament that Luddites like Lee have been laying on us since at least the invention of television , if not longer . There was probably some Greek scold who warned that write things on roll was going to end civilization as they lie with it by making it hard for him to hit on young woman at the Parthenon .
The Macalope ca n’t tell you how many real , flesh - and - origin Friend he ’s made through Twitter . He knows any number of mates who met on Twitter .
Even the goggle box cover has been shrink to a neat little portable twist – the iPad – that enables you to slink off into a corner and follow it on your own .
Lee apparently does n’t have any children , so he does n’t know the delight of have got them come see you under a sinkhole , trying to operate a wrench with hooves , and birth them shove an iPad in your human face because you totally have to see this part of the Road Runnerright nowbecause it ’s hysterical . There are so many laughable ways Lee is wrong that it ’s not even deserving hold up into .
By and heavy , what Apple makes , we buy – unquestioningly .
Really?Really?!Weneverthink about the other options when we corrupt Apple products ? Even the Macalope does that ! The thing is , Julian , the thing you do n’t want to allow for someweirdreason , is that their products are , by and large , just better .
But there is nothing very cool about the civilization of the company … Its “ my way or the highway ” coming to business enterprise has earned it few friend .
It has , however , earned a lot of its partners ( AT&T for example ) a crap - ton of money . Maybe the CEOs of these companies can soothe their hurt feelings by buying themselves some yacht .
Apple is one of the few technology companies in the creation that has succeeded despite have a closed ecosystem that does not work with any other technology .
Wow ! Is that right ? Notanyother technology ? Not Netflix or USB mice or Wi - Fi or Google Docs or Bluetooth headset or freaking X11 or the Internet where the Macalope has to read crackbrained idle talk like yours ? None of that ?
Apple ’s environmental record of managing the toxic side effect from its products is less than exemplary and the pricing for its product and services is base on what it can get away with rather than what is fair .
The Macalope hates to be the one to tell you this , Julian , but business , much like life , is not fair .
Australian consumer still pay $ 1.69 a raceway on its iTunes depot compared to the US69¢ Americans pay up , despite the strength of the Aussie dollar .
Hey , Julian , how much do you ante up for Fosters ? Or Uggs ? Or , more to the point , how much do other digital music seller in Australia bearing ?
This was the same argument the Macalope recall mass be adrift when tethering was acquaint . “ AT&T ’s prices are unjust ! Will Rogers blame less ! ” Uh , yeah . Rogers is in Canada . They ’re unlike markets . AT&T tear more because it could get away with charge more . Are you people brand new to capitalist economy or something ?
Despite its size , the myth riddle that Apple ’s values today are much the same as those spirt 36 old age ago by two hirsute college dip - outs in a garage in Silicon Valley .
The value of reinventing unmanageable technologies into well-to-do one has consistently been Apple ’s core value .
In spite of all the facts – that Apple is a unpitying corporate simple machine that exploits consumers at will …
Lee seems more upset with capitalism than Apple specifically . Yes . Apple is a corporation . Congratulations . You really nail it .
… and give minuscule back ( it does n’t even give its shareholders a dividend ) …
Poor Apple shareholders ! It ’s like they’regetting nothing for their investment !
… we be intimate this brand and the avuncular revivalist Jobs who is slowly but sure enough being raised to the pantheon of “ great ” alongside Nobel booty winners , mighty philanthropists and , dare I say it , even religious leaders .
The Macalope would really favor it if you did n’t dare to say it . What Lee does n’t mention is the keen line of work leader which is , you know , what people are really exalt him as .
In the end I suspect Jobs will be remembered chiefly as one of , if not the , best vender the world has ever know .
Finally , at the last sentence , we ’ve reached a dainty word about Jobs . And it ’s in the form of a backhand compliment .
Classy .
