The Macalope knows some people do n’t like the silly initiate takedown and choose more analytical piece , but you ’ll have to forgive him as he continue to dig out of the consequence of the iPhone 4S launching and the death of Steve Jobs . The French might call it “ un déluge de stupides ” or “ un grand bifteck de stupides avec les pomme frites qui sont aussi stupide . ”
This calendar week ’s collection runs the gamut from offensive to backward to offensive again , and on to overly forbidding . The technology man has a boil named “ punditry ” and the Macalope ’s here to lance it .
Character, or the lack thereof
The Macalope ’s not sure what Joe Wilcox ’s peculiar problem is — either he ’s trolling for hitting , emotionally and mentally maladroit , just plain stupid , or some combining of the three .
What the Macalopedoesknow is that if we accept Wilcox mean what he writes , his instincts are almost always faulty . In fact , he ’s beenproven wrongso many times that it’salmost record - stage setting . He also has a particularly uncanny fetish formanly man posturing .
Now Joe presumes to lecture Apple on what is and is n’t respectful of Steve Jobs ’s expiration .
Again , just like last Saturday , no link for Joe — this drivel does n’t deserve it . But the Macalope will pull some quotation mark , because this has to be read to be believed .
Yesterday , after having elevate anticipation with event invite , video and other teasers , Google and Samsung delay the presumed launching of Android 4.0 ( aka Ice Cream Sandwich ) and Nexus Prime ( or whatever the smartphone is send for ) . … Reason for cancelling the October 11 event : “ We believe this is not the right time to announce a new product as the existence extract testimonial to Steve Jobs ’s passing ” . So what ? Google and Samsung show respect for Jobs , but Apple does n’t ?
Joe , since you apparently have no approximation how to give regard to someone , let the Macalope give you a clue : The agency you devote your respect is to ask yourself what that mortal would have wanted and do that . Would Steve have need the iPhone 4S to be delayed ? Not a chance .
Apple , Google , and Samsung arealldoing what Steve would have wantedandwhat ’s right for their business . Of course Jobs would n’t have wanted the launching of the iPhone 4S delayed . Google and Samsung , meanwhile , do n’t want to be in the position of having their critical comparisons of the Nexus Prime to the iPhone seem aweless . That you ca n’t see this is stupefying . And , thus , completely in line with your chronicle .
News of Jobs expiry came previous - day on October 5 . My colleagues and I could n’t really discourse it until the following Clarence Shepard Day Jr. . When everyone was online in group chat I chimed : “ Now arrive the mental testing of the new management ’s character . I would stay iPhone 4S launching a workweek out of deference . ”
Did everyone else on the chat laugh because they assume you were jest , or is this a chapter of Clueless Trolls Anonymous ?
Google has not announced a ship escort for the Nexus Prime . What they delay was the announcement — the kind of upshot Apple had for the iPhone 4S the daybeforeJobs died . So , in addition to being nauseous , this piece also does n’t even make sense , which is Joe ’s signature “ double threat . ”
Google and Samsung show regard for problem ’ passing in ways the Apple hasn’t — and should have . The new direction has failed the trial of character I put before my fellow worker two days ago .
Joe Wilcox is the last person who should be lecturing people on theatrical role . The manwho challenged an unwell Steve Jobs to return to work full time two years agowould best be serve by keeping his pathetic wronghole shut about anything bear on to Jobs ’s decease .
Luddites against Jobs
Last month Kyle Smith was kind enough to point out to us the shocking revelation , never put forth before , thatApple is a religious belief . This month he ’s back to secern uswhat a lousy use model Steve Jobs is .
countenance us plow in our hymnals to the Gospels of Steve to the Stanfordites …
Still . Doing . It .
Jobs ’s advice to the graduating class of Stanford ? Find your passion . Do n’t settle .
Smith ’s advice ? Give up on passionateness ! Settle , already !
go for out for the perfect and drift restlessly from one bed / desk to another only look smart from the top down , after you ’ve made it to the CEO retinue ( or matrimonial Heidi Klum ) .
Smith will never get take in to give the commencement reference at a school of Stanford ’s caliber , but do n’t omit his stirring language to the graduate sixth grade form of Willy Loman Primary School : Stick with a job you hate , and stay put in that thudding and loveless relationship ! A hoot in the hand is deserving two in the bush !
job ’ Stanford advice is not just trite , misleading and foolish , it ’s also a symptom of a deep job with Generation Apple .
What made the world big was people toiling away in factories with no promise ! Give up on your dreams , Kid ! The world needs more ditch digger , you know !
They venerate capital individual without understanding that not everyone is expectant . Even those who are seldom get to call all the shots — no man is an iLand .
GET IT ?
Gosh , the Macalope ’s look back over Jobs ’s Stanford address ( disclaimer : he ’s not really looking back over Jobs ’ Stanford name and address ) and he ’s taste to find the part where he secernate everyone to leave their spouses , step down their job and commence their own company in their garage and , hmm , not finding it . uncanny . It ’s almost like Smith is deliberately misconstruing the message — oh , hold back , yes , that ’s exactly what he ’s doing .
The mind that you are the only - wildcat visionary hero of your own life sentence and everyone around you is irrelevant or clueless is an enduring American myth .
If you ’re not responsible for for your living , Kyle , then who is ? The Man ? The Macalope skip not because The Man is notoriously sorry at looking out for your best interests .
The incarnation of a rebuke to this dangerously ego - delusional impression is … Steve Jobs . Not his life . His decease .
Oh , son . Here we go .
He plow his cancer with dietetic adjustments and shunned surgery for nine months , effectively allowing the tumor to snipe him at will . In the Stanford language , he misled his listeners by enjoin he straightaway had a biopsy that showed the cancer was curable with surgery and then “ had the operating room . ” He made no mention of the nine - calendar month delay , which was report inThe Wall Street Journaland elsewhere .
So you eff it has to be true . Smith , of course , does n’t live what Jobs really did and he for certain does n’t know that Jobs would have live a day longer if he had done things other than . That does n’t stop him from passing judgement , because he ’s an overbearing nitwit . Assuming the account is true , the Macalope would n’t go so far as to support Jobs ’s actions . But he would point out that giving multitude the good advice to surveil their passion and strain to enjoy their work instead of continuing to break one’s back by at a occupation that does n’t prompt them is rather different from tell them not to look for aesculapian attending when needed .
Thank good there are cinema critic scold like Smith around to make up one’s mind whether or not someone lived their life the proper way .
Jobs certainly did deepen the mankind . Recent research has shown that iPhones fire upthe same cerebral neuronsas lovemaking .
Boy , that discreditedNew York Timespiece fill up with tiny sample size and pseudo - scientific “ study ” for certain is popular with hacks , is n’t it ?
And what do people love about the iPhone ? They love the spirit of their own inner self .
You could not be a bigger prig if you taste , could you .
To walk through any crowded city or campus these solar day requires a fresh kind of alertness , a nimble ability to sidestep the burgeoning ranks of the iZombies …
Blah , blah , blah , technology is ruining everything , blah , blah , blah , why do n’t these punk read a goddamn book .
Increasingly , Planet Jobs will be one in which each citizen will be walled off from others and deeply employ with an nonesuch of his own particular singularity .
It ’s as if Smith and his Luddite cohorts like Robert Samuelson have never heard of texting , FaceTime , or social media .
The iZombies ’ milieu grow as hazy and dreamlike as in Tennyson ’s 1832 verse form “ The Lotos - Eaters … ”
It ’s fitting for Smith to close by quote something from 1832 . Because that ’s about as current as his perspective is .
Saturday Special: What is it Lassie?! Trouble?!
As we bid leave-taking to Steve and commit his legacy to posterity , let us also not draw a blank to take the sentence to PANIC ABOUT APPLE ’S FUTURE AAAAAAGH !
After iPhone ’s debut , Cook must shift Apple brand(tip o ’ the antlers to Len Cortigiano ) .
You have to do it the hubris of anyone make bold to take to task Tim Cook on what hemustdo . “ If Apple is to survive , Tim Cook must assume the facial expression of a large hobo camp cat and dance ! DANCE , I SAY ! ”
Apple Inc debuts its fifth genesis iPhone this calendar week minus its Laputan leader for the first prison term . But CEO Tim Cook may already be thinking ahead to his greatest challenge : dislodge the fellowship ’s fabled marketing apparatus to safeguard the brand .
Because , you know , the brand is in such danger .
With Google Inc Android phones gain impulse …
Which would be really chilling if Apple had n’t already locked up a far better metric unit of success than market share : net profit .
How many time does the Macalope keep having to make the same point ? This is pathetic .
… Cook is probably sticking to establish battle plans at this critical juncture . But long term , he may be better off moving the fellowship out from under Jobs ’ jumbo shadow .
The Apple co - beginner leave a mystique and lettre de cachet to the brand that will be nigh - insufferable to replace , cultivating a community of fans fleece on ease of enjoyment and rich content .
It ’s true ! We ’re such impoverished , ease - of - utilization and rich cognitive content junkies . What a drag for Tim Cook ! It ’d be so much easier to inherit a company with customers used to ware that suck .
“ There ’s no interrogative Apple is going to go through a time of transformation . There ’s a lot of risk around the brand , ” read Tim Calkins , a selling prof at Northwestern University ’s Kellogg School of Management who has send word clients like Eli Lilly & Co.
Well say , perfesser . Apple is clearly teetering on the brink of a brandtastrophy .
“ A hatful of pressure will come on Tim Cook to step up . ”
Yeah , Timmy ! You ca n’t keep sleeping until 10 a.m. and doing nothing but play video recording game and watch Clone Wars for the remainder of your life ! What do you want to be when you grow up ? What ’s your five - year design ?
“ The knockout part is , he ’s not Steve Jobs , nor can he try on to be . ”
Oh , my God ! He ’s not ? ! Has anyone told him this ? ! What … what if we put him in a black shirt and blue jean and glasses and have him say “ Boom ! ” a lot ? !
“ They ’ve got to find a new voice in the market . Steve Jobs was so much the brass of Apple , ” Calkins said . “ Protect the gist elements of the stigma , but at the same fourth dimension , move forward . ”
“ They need to stay the same , but change . They require to turn odd but also keep go direct . It ’s complicated . … lease ’s face up it : I really have no idea what they need to do . ”
The horny one understand these are turbulent times . But must tumultuous times top to such babbling ?
