I guess he gave them just a little bite of the Apple. People do have big EGOS and need Jobs' rubbing a bit of glamor off on them. ( It is the ultimate consummation of our "ME" generation which I hope will soon give way to more of "We together" generation.) Marta
On Aug 9, 2006, at 11:13, Jerry Freeman wrote: > you miss my point. it's the bloggers/reporters that i'm taking to > task, not Jobs or Apple. somehow there is an expectation by those who > choose to report that WWDC is MacWorld, 'one more thing' and all. I > would prefer a low key "fireside chat' approach for WWDC without > people parading on stage, save that for MacWorld. [1] at least one > understood what had transpired. best...jf > > [1] http://homepage.mac.com/lesposen/blogwavestudio/index.html > > On Aug 9, 2006, at 10:29 AM, Marta Edie wrote: > >> John, I hear you and I did hear it in the speech, but these things >> are usually drowned by all the other humdrum. i am glad you pointed >> them out in isolation and with clarity. I do want to watch that >> speech again while not having food cooking!!!, though. - As to the >> lackluster of the presentation Jerry related to, well, how can one >> keep on ra ra rawing it all the time ( think of those crazy Walmart >> morning PRAYERS- that is what they are, and the God is Walmart), a >> low key approach with highly creative products seems to me more >> believable. Secondly, we can't all be screamingly enthusiastic all >> the time, and what we don't want is a speech like Jerry Falwell would >> give on the infallibility of the Christian right, Steve Jobs giving >> one on the new godlike attributes of the time machine. So a little >> dullness versus false enthusiasm to me is not at all a bad idea. >> Marta > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be August 22 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. > | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be August 22 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
