oh, what the hell... On 07/10/11 03:42, [email protected] wrote: > > On Oct 7, 2011, at 10:07 AM, michael perelman wrote: > >> I have never been a fan of Apple's business practice, > > A lot of people feel the need to start with "I'm not a fan of > Apple|Jobs" when they want to start speaking about Apple|Jobs. I > wonder why that is. Do we have a lot of people who say "I'm not a fan > of Microsoft|Balmer but..." ? > > Ok, more to the point, what in Apple's business practice is so bad, > compared to other HW makers that people need to single it out ?
This is one of the "funniest" exchanges, not to say helaryious, I have ever witnessed. If I say: "I am not a fan of Halliburton" in the wake of Cheney's departure, have I singled out that particular "construction" company, or have I merely spoken in context? Besides, who the hell defends a billionaire's company on a list like this? The nerds call them fan boys and this goes to show precisely what hold Apple has got on the imagination of technofetishists. Look at Jobs's profile, it is full of references to his lying and stealing (and so on) - even from partners - all the way from the beginning: "According to Wozniak, Jobs told Wozniak that Atari had given them only $700 (instead of the actual $5,000) and that Wozniak's share was thus $350." "Jobs also has a daughter, Lisa Brennan-Jobs (born 1978), from his relationship with Bay Area painter Chrisann Brennan. She briefly raised their daughter on welfare when Jobs denied paternity by claiming he was sterile; he later acknowledged Lisa as his daughter". "After resuming control of Apple in 1997, Jobs eliminated all corporate philanthropy programs." "In 2001, Steve Jobs was granted stock options in the amount of 7.5 million shares of Apple with an exercise price of $18.30. It was alleged that the options had been backdated, and that the exercise price should have been $21.10. It was further alleged that Jobs had thereby incurred taxable income of $20,000,000 that he did not report, and that Apple overstated its earnings by that same amount. As a result, Jobs potentially faced a number of criminal charges and civil penalties." "Much was made of Jobs' aggressive and demanding personality. Fortune wrote that he was "considered one of Silicon Valley's leading egomaniacs".[86] Commentaries on his temperamental style can be found in Mike Moritz's The Little Kingdom, one of the few authorized biographies of Jobs; The Second Coming of Steve Jobs, by Alan Deutschman; and iCon: Steve Jobs, by Jeffrey S. Young & William L. Simon. In 1993, Jobs made Fortune's list of America's Toughest Bosses in regard to his leadership of NeXT. Cofounder Dan'l Lewin was quoted in Fortune as saying of that period, "The highs were unbelievable ... But the lows were unimaginable", to which Jobs' office replied that his personality had changed since then. "Jef Raskin, a former colleague, once said that Jobs "would have made an excellent king of France," alluding to Jobs' compelling and larger-than-life persona." This takes two minutes to find on the net. Another one of these fake Western self-centered Buddhists, who not only belonged to the me-me-me generation, but significantly helped create it: iThis and iThat - no weGadgets at all. Anyway, Apple is flippin' evil and this is what I imagine: their customers are ignorant trendies who do not (want to) realise that suicide rates during Apple production in the "factories" (read: work camps) are higher than usual (there are always many suicides, since all big hardware manufacturers are evil, but Apple's products, which are identity builders and status symbols, rather than merely use-value objects, are surrounded by enormous secrecy and hype - necessarily so for such vanity objects - and thus enticing to shove up your arse or wherever you can hide it and try to sneak past the armed guards. When it fails or if you cannot stand the general work pressure under such conditions any longer... Next: look to mining of the minerals for the devices: the smaller the greater need for coltan and other specialities required to deal with heat in very small devices. Millions dead. On another fantasy note: all the money that record companies claim they have lost in the last due to the emergence of a sharing economy of music and films etc. is what have made Apple's decade: no one has anymore money than they used to, if they saved any, then they spend it on iPods to be able to actually play the shitty quality compressed music that is/was traditionally shared via the net. Obviously I feel like an idiot having to single this out, since who do now know that rich people are evil: that is how they become rich. Ever known a rich person, who liked to share and be communal? Doh! No, rich is something you become by exploiting workers and financial systems, lotteries apart. Jobs was the single biggest individual shareholder of Disney - that beacon of progressive culture. Apple are fruit machine from Disney and those who use them are fruitcakes. -m PS: Yes, I speak bad about the dead - Marco Polo, Colombus, you name them: they are not heroes and friends of the people, for crying out loud! Wake up! Get out of your Disneylusion. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
