It ’s more than a hebdomad by and by and we ’re still cleaning up the passel of the storm that rage through our residential district . No , not hurricane Irene , hurricane Steve Jobs Steps Down ( which , like Irene , would make a really pretty name for a girl ) . One learned person has been swept from the social station of Mac users while another take to ramp against the storm . Finally , Paul Thurrott has been lying to you ! Can you imagine ?
Breaking up isn’t always hard to do
Congratulations , Joe Wilcox ! You ’re the first someone to save a “ I did n’t leave Apple , Apple lead me ! ” situation since Jobs stepped down as chief executive officer !
The previous one was a week before . They fall out every week .
in the first place this month I sell my 11.6 - inch MacBook Air ( using Samsung Series 5 Chromebook now ) and iPhone 4 ( switched back to Google Nexus S ) .
Bon . Voyage .
This explain something the Macalope was wondering about . obviously Wilcox was the “ role player to be identify by and by ” in the dubiousMike Elgan swop . candidly , the Macalope does n’t fully understand a business deal where you ’re just switch one guy who hacks at the testis for another . Maybe we got some wage or something .
I do n’t miss either Apple ware .
That ’s interesting , because the Macalope speak with the MacBook Air and iPhone sooner , Joe , and they said the feeling was mutual .
In reflecting , I recognize that the turn is broken . Without Apple Chairman Steve Jobs driving innovation or inspiring passion — the oftentimes - called “ reality distortion field”—my Apple enthusiasm is extend . Perhaps it ’s counter to sanity .
Or maybe you ’re still mad and your insanity is just further evidence itself . Did you count that ?
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The Macalope seems to remember youchallenging job to return to work full time . Is this your newfangled defensive structure ? Insanity supplication ? It does have a sure appeal to it .
But on reflection , I now see how much simplicity , one of Apple products ’ best attributes , is giving way to complication creeping . Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and iTunes 9 and 10 are glaring object lesson of increase complexness , as are iOS 4 ( and shortly v5 ) , Safari 5.1 , iLife ` 11 and most other Apple software .
Uh , really ? iLife is complicated ? Did you take a blow to the head recently ?
Wilcox ’s disputation about Lion also vanish in the human face of the complaints of most long - fourth dimension Mac user . If anything , the complaints the Macalope has determine are that things like Launchpad and Versions are anoversimplification . But there ’s a reason Joe ’s forcing this melodic theme : He ’s build to a loathly bossStar Treksimile .
Jobs and Cook could n’t be more unlike leaders .
Well , they ’re both highly talented . That ’s something they share that sets them aside from their challenger .
Like James T. Kirk and Mr. Spock from “ Star Trek ” . Kirk is the leader , the charismatic one . Benjamin Spock is the empowering sidekick but not as effective leader . That ’s how I see Jobs and Cook .
Well , no one would criminate you of complicatedness creep , Joe .
Cook ’s been on the job for about a week and Wilcox has somehow divined what his leadership elan is like . Wilcox argues that you could see Cook ’s Vulcan death grip in Apple ’s relocation over the preceding two plus years , but if that ’s true it sure has n’t read in the fellowship ’s cut-rate sale . Or its financials . Or its stock cost .
And it ’s not like Joe ’s been particularly prescient . Ever .
Apple wo n’t find feature compromises — the kind good for keep them in Libra — as sluttish in the post - Jobs - CEO world , either . Response to Final Cut Pro X is one exercise of that .
expect , wait , hold back . Final Cut Pro was a perfect representative of Apple simplifying something , not making it more complex . And you were just severalise us the Cook era is all about over - refine matter . Your argument have no logical consistency .
Jobs had a knack for making people consider in his company ’s products …
line give a terrific intro , there ’s no dubiousness about it . But people could still tell when he was test to feed them a sandwich full of something you should never , ever make a sandwich with . Like when he articulate in 2007 that Apple ’s slick result for spring up for the iPhone was Web apps . Nobody buy that .
Well , maybe you did , since you ’re using a Chromebook .
Apple feels quite different to me now in 2011 than it did in 2008 . It ’s all corporate now . Just dollars and penny on a ledger . What Jobs imbued already is gone , at least for me .
Come on . It ’s not like your heart was ever really in it in the first place . You ’ve been trying ( and go wrong ) to secondly estimate Apple for eld . Speaking of insanity , you have sex how some people say the definition of it is doing the same thing over and over and require a unlike result ? Probably not .
I auspicate it will fade for many technophiles .
Well , that ’s sure curse , Joe , as your analysis is always so tell apart on .
Cough .
A close second
write for theSydney Morning Herald , Julian Lee does n’t quite make out up to Nick Farrell ’s heroic level of jackassery , but he sure have it a endeavour .
No sooner had Steve Jobs resigned than the process of his canonisation began .
GET IT ? IT ’S A faith . BET YOU NEVER SAW THAT COMING . BOOM . IN YOUR FACE APPLE FANS . YOU JUST GOT SCHOOLED.SUNDAYSCHOOLED .
Genius , visionary , even revolutionary were some of the epithets used to describe the man who took Apple from the verge to the macrocosm ’s most valuable company .
Yet , once the exaggeration is strip down away , it may be that he was just the man who made us fall in love with pretty gadgets , and made Apple shareholders vastly rich in the process .
Wait . It ca n’t be both ?
Jobs made compute sexy and packaged euphony players , phones and portable screens to make them the must - have item for millions . But he is guilty , among other things , of bequeathing to us a worldwide cult of technical masturbation from which we are unlikely to recover any time before long .
pulling out ? Well , take care likesomeonegot a Word of God - of - the - day calendar for his natal day .
There are two elbow room of looking at this : you’re able to either recognize that people get stir by technology because it enables them to do things they could never do before , or you’re able to just think they ’re worshipping false idols . Lee has picked the latter and decided to charge it all on Steve Jobs . Who , by the way , is stepping down because he has 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 railroad train if they are plugged into a two - hour make of easy hearing .
Is that what this is about ? You bugging the great unwashed on the gearing ? Maybe those people never wanted to be intercept by you in the first place and are just using their iPod as an exculpation . Did you ever think of that ?
This is the same “ Technology is disconnect us ! ” lament that Luddites like Lee have been laying on us since at least the invention of television receiver , if not longer . There was probably some Greek scold who monish that writing thing on scroll was blend in to end civilization as they knew it by reach it harder for him to hit on girls at the Parthenon .
The Macalope ca n’t assure you how many genuine , flesh - and - blood friends he ’s made through Twitter . He knows any telephone number of duet who see on Twitter .
Even the TV screen has been shrivel to a keen little portable gimmick – the iPad – that enable you to slink off into a nook and watch it on your own .
Lee apparently does n’t have any kid , so he does n’t know the delight of experience them fare line up you under a cesspit , trying to operate a twist with hooves , and having them shove an iPad in your face because you altogether have to see this part of the Road Runnerright nowbecause it ’s hysterical . There are so many cockeyed way Lee is wrong that it ’s not even deserving rifle into .
By and large , what Apple lay down , we bribe – unquestioningly .
Really?Really?!Weneverthink about the other options when we buy Apple products ? Even the Macalope does that ! The thing is , Julian , the thing you do n’t want to include for someweirdreason , is that their ware are , by and orotund , just better .
But there is nothing very coolheaded about the culture of the company … Its “ my path or the main road ” approach to business has make it few supporter .
It has , however , make a lot of its partners ( AT&T for example ) a crap - ton of money . perhaps the chief executive officer of these companies can solace their hurt feelings by buying themselves some racing yacht .
Apple is one of the few technology society in the world that has succeeded despite having a shut ecosystem that does not ferment with any other technology .
Wow ! Is that right ? Notanyother engineering science ? Not Netflix or USB mice or Wi - Fi or Google Docs or Bluetooth headsets or freak X11 or the Internet where the Macalope has to take idiotic prate like yours ? None of that ?
Apple ’s environmental record of superintend the toxic fallout from its products is less than cautionary and the pricing for its products and services is base on what it can get by with rather than what is fair .
The Macalope detest to be the one to tell you this , Julian , but business , much like life sentence , is not mediocre .
Australian consumer still bear $ 1.69 a track on its iTunes memory compared to the US69¢ Americans yield , despite the forte of the Aussie dollar .
Hey , Julian , how much do you devote for Stephen Collins Foster ? Or Uggs ? Or , more to the detail , how much do other digital medicine vendors in Australia charge ?
This was the same parameter the Macalope think back people floating when tethering was introduce . “ AT&T ’s prices are unjust ! Rogers charges less ! ” Uh , yeah . Rogers is in Canada . They ’re different markets . AT&T charge more because it could get aside with charging more . Are you people brand novel to capitalist economy or something ?
Despite its size , the myth pervades that Apple ’s note value today are much the same as those forged 36 years ago by two hirsute college fall - outs in a garage in Silicon Valley .
The value of reinvent difficult technologies into easier ones has systematically been Apple ’s effect note value .
In spite of all the fact – that Apple is a ruthless corporate simple machine that exploits consumers at will …
Lee seems more disturbed with capitalism than Apple specifically . Yes . Apple is a potbelly . Congratulations . You really complete it .
… and gives little back ( it does n’t even pay its shareholders a dividend ) …
Poor Apple shareholders ! It ’s like they’regetting nothing for their investment !
… we get it on this brand and the avuncular gospeller Jobs who is slowly but surely being raise to the pantheon of “ great ” alongside Nobel prize success , mighty philanthropist and , dare I say it , even spiritual leaders .
The Macalope would really prefer it if you did n’t dare to say it . What Lee does n’t mention is the great business leaders which is , you know , what the great unwashed are really lauding him as .
In the end I distrust Jobs will be retrieve chiefly as one of , if not the , best vendor the world has ever know .
Finally , at the last condemnation , we ’ve reached a decent word about Jobs . And it ’s in the form of a backhanded compliment .
Classy .
Saturday Special: Matter/antimatter reaction
We could spend more clip going over the asinine things certain the great unwashed have said about Steve Jobs stepping down — believe the Macalope when he says there aremany other contendersin the airstream to bethe big tug on the cyberspace — but enough of that . Because Paul Thurrott want you Apple hoodlum to break email him about market parcel .
Market Share Matters(Tip group O ’ the antlers toNathan D. Huening . )
I ’ve been lying to you .
Oh , Paul . lie ? In addition to your other offense against humanness ? Whatwillwe severalise the tike ?
But I ’m well-worn of it . And now I ’m just die to secern you what I should have state you all along . And that ’s this : When it comes to PC , pill , smart phones , whatever ; market percentage matter . In fact , it matter more than any other metric you care to name .
Actually , it does n’t . bet on what you ’re talking about .
But Paul ’s upset because masses keep beam him “ Yeah , but … ” e-mail and he does n’t need to think about your annoying counter - arguments anymore ! He just wants to apply market percentage because it ’s easier , OK ? He ’s well-worn of all the complaints !
complaint from Apple fiend that seek to undercut the grandness of market share — because , again , they do n’t like what it says about their favorite fellowship and/or platform — and modify the discussion .
The Macalope does n’t doubt that some people who email him are bugged by this , but the horny one really does n’t worry . There are many reason Windows has a larger food market share and they ’re not because it ’s somehow better .
But I ’ve been thinking lately that I ’ve been too diffident about this theme . And I ’m here today to correct that . Market share matters . Period . And if your concerns are non - partisan and true , as I consider mine are …
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… you ’ll check that it ’s the thing that weigh most .
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The reason market portion thing is that market share measure where the body are .
OK , Paul ’s not completely wrong here : 90 - plus percent of calculator bought hunt down Windows . That matters . But he ’s talking about something other than what the Macalope and many Apple rooter have been complaining about in the over - emphasis on market parcel . What we ’ve been complaining about is using it as theonlybarometer for the wellness of an ecosystem .
From the perspective of a exploiter , as long as your platform has a sizable growth life cycle , a muddle of software , and robust peripheral options , who cares what the market plowshare is ? This has been the face with both the Mac and iOS for years and yet people keep screaming about market place share like it has anything to do with our exploiter experience . It just does n’t . In fact , it might even keep malware away .
From the perspective of an investor , what matters is increase and net profit ( both areas where Apple is highly successful ) , not market share . The last matter you desire to do is buy stock in a party with in high spirits market share and watch it trickle away . Would Paul have bought RIM gunstock two years ago ? Because , if he ’s argue for that , he should have his headland examined .
Which he should in all probability do anyway , because something ai n’t right .
… I write about mainstream engineering , and I write for the people who use those product . Not for the wishful thinkers . And not for the mistaken somebody that seek to prop up a gigantic potbelly that does not give a shit about them at all .
The mean and tiresome Apple buff who keep transmit those “ Yeah , but … ” e-mail to Paul are just trying to prop up a jumbo tummy that does n’t give a crap about them . Paul , on the other hand , is gallantly trying to support theusersof the product of a gargantuan corporation that does n’t give a poop about them . See the deviation , zealots ?
If marketplace share matters toyou , Paul , well , well for you . But do n’t endeavor to assure us it matters to us . Because it does n’t .
