On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Richard Gerome
<[email protected]>wrote:
>
>
> Hey Brian, I agree with you on that it is cool but: why is it we can't
> still run our old machines too without more trouble whenever they come out
> with faster and better stuff??? I don't care if it's slower I just want to
> do what I always did... They force us to buy the newer stuff by making our
> older stuff run worse... I have a friend with an old TiBook running Panther
> who can't use it anymore and he can not afford to upgrade it to Tiger and
> get few more yrs out of it... He lives in South America and I've been
> looking for a Tiger disc and more memory for him cheap enough for me to
> afford and mail it to him so we can still stay in touch by emails and Scipe
> (mailing him letters would prob take a week from the USA) and by then the
> news up here to him is too late... Not only are some of us retired and
> living on fixed incomes some of us had to file for bankruptcy and are not
> making anything at all... In his case he lost his home and business and had
> to move back with his relatives down there... Us poor people always have to
> suffer and get creative just to keep up... Today you need a computer to get
> a job because they are now online... They don't even hire you now because
> they do a credit check too ("hey I'm here for a job not a loan") I got into
> this credit problem because of loosing my job in the first place... WTF is
> this all about???
>
Content with prettier eye candy sells ideas If you cannot keep up with the
current "style" your content looks flaky and suspect. Think here of
mimeographed political flyers when Xerox came out. The medium in itself is a
semaphore subtexting and toning whatever it expresses.
Rather than the democratizing effect that personal computers should have, if
you cannot keep up financially your ability to put a message out is
compromised.
Your comments about the struggle on the street level I can well identify
with.
Steve jobs has lost touch with the needs of the masses he sought in the old
days.
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