http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2008/03/happy-now-bitches.html
I'm in the camp of Fake Steve Jobs, whom I quote here: "*Happy now, bitches?* Yeah, we rocked your friggin world, right? I mean 29 June 2007 might be the day the world changed, but today it just changed again. BlackBerry is dead. Microsoft is dead. Windows Mobile is dead. Amazon is dead. Kindle is dead. Nokia is dead. Motorola was already dead but now they are even more dead. Google's Android is dead. Samsung is dead. LG is dead. Sony is dead. UTStarcom is dead. We've thrown $100 million into an iFund so people can build iApps to sell on iTunes and give us 30% of their iMoney. The coming onslaught of new applications will make iPhone the only smart phone that anyone in the entire world will ever want to use. Seriously, folks, it's game over. This announcement today is as big as the announcement of the original Macintosh in 1984. At airports all around the world they put flights on hold so that people could stay in the terminal and watch the news as it was announced. In Canada they declared a national day of mourning for RIM. It's that huge. Today, frankly, is a day that will live in the history of our industry. It's a classic inflection point. Massive disruption. Schumpeter-esque creative destruction. I am sitting here just watching the trailer for "Ironman" with the volume cranked on my stereo and I'm running around going "I ... am ... Ironman ..." in that weird computer voice. Truly, I am invincible. I rule the world. I am the greatest human being that ever lived. I feel just like that friggin Ironman guy, honestly. Bullets cannot pierce my iron skin. Apple is the greatest company in the world. We rock so hard it's amazing. UPDATE: In the list of the dead up above I forgot to mention Palm and Adobe. They are both also dead. So dead, in fact, that I forgot to mention them." The folks at 37Signals had a slightly similar view: http://tinyurl.com/3aglv6 My personal view ... Wow!!! ... nothing else needs to be said. Yes, there are problems with the total vision, but that 10% of iissues for me aren't a big deal. Why June!!!???!!!! for the love of G-d, WHY JUNE!!!!???!!!!! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=26885 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
