I wasn't comparing Jobs to Riefenstahl - I was just struck by how much she would have enjoyed documenting the Apple self-adorathons.
Jobs was what he was. I don't doubt he did a lot for Apple but he is not my idea of a successful human being. I don't particularly like ego-maniacal cult leaders because they bring out the worst in the wide-eyed. I don't like being reminded how easy it is for the charismatic to manipulate those who thrive on giving up their will to the vision of others.
>However you feel now, you cannot deny him that. He was the master showman of his time.
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>The comparison to Leni Riefenstahl is not a fair one. Jobs was a businessman.
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>>This is stated perfectly. (I did own an Apple II in the late 70s early 80s)
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>>(I will refrain from elaborating on how seeing Jobs in front of an audience of Believers looked like something Leni Riefenstahl would have loved and was enough to put me off the cult <g> At any moment I expected Tom Cruise to come bouncing out of the wings to laud the "tech". <s>)
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>>>As a developer I can not support the closed ecosystem that is iOS.
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>>>As a developer:
>>>1. You need Apple's blessing to publish an application. There is no other way to get an app out there unless master Apple gives it their blessing.
>>>2. You can't compete with Apple's native applications. If you have a fantastic new mail application tough sh#t, it won't be published.
>>>3. If Apple decides to make the features of your app part of a native application you're getting the boot and tough sh#t
>>>
>>>As a consumer:
>>>1. You can not choose a new default application to handle various actions. Don't want Apple maps? Tough sh#t, when you click a map link that's what you're getting. Don't want built-in mail? Tough crap.
>>>2. You have no choice but to use that bloated, awful iTunes application.
>>>3. You can't view the entire file system on your iOS device (you can with Android)
>>>4. You want an iPhone in phablet size? Tough. You want a water-proof smart phone? Tough. You can have this year's model or last year's model.
>>>5. You get to overpay for that Apple logo; hope you like it.
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>>>The iOS app store is bad for developers and ultimately bad for consumers. Choice ultimately trumps; witness Android eating iOS's lunch.
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>>>I have never owned an Apple device and my house remains gloriously iOS free.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
