In these hard times of change it ’s a quilt to have familiar things to fall back on . You know how when you ’re unhinged it feels unspoilt to feed mac - n - Malva sylvestris , or pot PIE , or alfalfa ? Likewise , we can turn to the fact that engineering science savant will always say stupid thing about Apple . No matter who ’s in guardianship .
Après Jobs, le déluge…
… First State stupide .
So . There goes the other skid . test not to gross out .
wait , if anyone give you grief about this on the resort area , just sedately note that Apple ’s young chief executive officer can still beat up their CEO , so there . It ’s not like Tim Cook’ssome sweaty meat sack .
We do n’t need to sort it all out now . There will be plenty of metre to talk about this over the next millenium . Sadly , many a punch-drunk pundit will hasten to tell you what it means . For the most part , and the Macalope ca n’t punctuate this enough , they have no idea what they ’re talking about .
Do n’t worry about Apple . Worry about Steve Jobs if you desire to worry about something . The Macalope ’s pleased to see he ’s still on the board of Disney , he ’s chairman of Apple ’s board , and he ’s still an Apple employee . ( Although the Macalope hopes the latter does n’t entail much because Steve Wozniak is still an Apple employee , too , and that guy ’s goofy . )
Jobs commits his land tenure as head of Apple to posterity as perhaps the most remarkable turnround of all time . For those of us who are long - time Apple fan , we owe him a debt of gratitude . For those of us who work in an Apple - related industry , we owe him our living . From the rudderless Isaac Hull of the caller he aid create , Steve Jobs build an unprecedented organization that make gadget that delight customers and drive competitors ( and savant ) to fits .
Few people can make such an amazing part to the business world once in their lifetime . He did it double .
Thanks , Steve . Be well .
Now , if you ’ll apologize him , the Macalope ’s still got a Book of Job to do .
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Because , true to form , learned person neutralize no timein getting flop into the dullard .
Charles Golvin , an psychoanalyst speciate in peregrine technology at Forrester Research , said in an email message … “ I think the key question is whether the Apple squad will continue to process as effectively as a collaborative without the single someone to trust on for the last decision . ”
Apparently Forrester has been inform that Tim Cook wasnotnamed CEO and Apple is now run by committee . Thatistroubling . Next affair you know , they ’ll be narrate us about the disturbing messageJonathan I ve ’s frownsends about Apple executive rivalries .
But Golvin ’s not the worst . No , we ’re just getting part . clasp up , this is gon na get ugly .
From zero to classless in 3.5 seconds
EnterTechEye.net ’s Nick Farrell , who require everyone to know how fearful it is that Steve Jobs did cancer wrong ( tip type O ’ the antler tomarkbyrnon Twitter ) .
The messiah of the Apple cargo fad has take the air by from his theatrical role as Apple ’s CEO after suffer from a bad case of position , as we cover at midnight .
Yes , you read that right . Farrell is chastising a cancer sufferer for give out to have had perspective .
[ golf eruption ]
Bra - vo .
Steve Jobs is probably the first individual in Apple ’s history to suddenly rouse up one aurora and realise that there are good thing in life than shining toys .
The Macalope ’s not trusted if Farrell is confine his holier - than - K judgement to Appleemployeesor if he mean that all of Apple ’s customers are soulless monsters who are only interested in gadgets and target no value on interpersonal relationships .
Either way , zing ! proficient one . You really subjugate us all to a sleazy , cartoonish stereotype there .
It must be reassure to Jobs that there are jade like Farrell looking out for him , sitting on the sidelines and telling him he’slost perspectiveby extend to do what he lie with in the brass of adversity . sure as shooting Farrell is in a better military position to be adjudicate how Jobs should have deal with this sad , personal catastrophe .
Lecture on .
A prospicient time ago we warned Jobs that make fantasy for fanboys was a largely pointless usage when your health was on the rocks .
Didyou , now . Well , kickshaw for you . So , whenyouget cancer , you ’ll do itright , not like Jobs did . Give yourself a big clap on the back and , oh , you already are . Never mind .
He was drafted back in and stir the company off from its traditional nice looking PC manakin , to gizmos and toys such as the iPod .
Because , as everyone knows , Apple stopped make Macs . Also , “ drafted ” ? He chose to sell his company to Apple and then deal a boardroom coup d’etat to take over .
Are youtryingto seem like an insensitive behind who ’s regardless with canonic facts ? Because you ’re doing a bang - up job of it .
But business ’ masterstroke was to move into the wandering arena first with the smartphone . Smartphones had been around but they had never had Apple ’s intent apply to them . That , coupled with a fanatical base and a sympathetic jam , enabled Jobs to make a mobile delirium around smartphones .
aside from the use of tired clichés , this is n’t even ripe piece of writing . “ nomadic hysteria ” ? The fury was portable ?
It was dub Jobs ’ ‘ realness distortion field of honor ’ where whatever the humankind said was considered to be absolutely true . It result in a fellowship which was less about viable engineering science and more of a shallow twenty-first century rage where product were a refilling for spiritual atonement .
The man is step down from his position because of health reasons and you ’re shout out him a snake - oil salesman . That’sclass .
Just as interest in the iPod started to die off , Jobs came up with the iPad which successfully dusted off the tablet musical theme which Microsoft and indeed he had failed to convert the existence was practicable .
Nicely worded . The Macalope does n’t usually jab people for simple typos , but in your case he ’ll make an exception .
In doing so , Jobs created the “ mobile godsend ” which lead to the development of more peregrine consumer gadgets . This gravy catch the diligence on the hop and it has been slow to find an solution . This is mostly because rivals miss the dodgy marketing and the overzealous Apple fanboy base and Tame Apple Press which Apple cultivated .
Uh - huh . The same mechanical press that declared a new iPhone killer every week ? The same pressure that continues to declare a new iPad killer whale every hebdomad ? The same press that suppose Apple was doomed because it did n’t put in a crappy netbook ? The same “ fanatical Apple fanboy root ” that ’s probably now mostly made up of people who were using Windows just a few long time ago ? intelligibly , it could n’t be the fact that Apple ’s products are justbetterthan everyone else ’s .
They could n’t be ! The Xoom is 4G - quick !
So far no one has managed to replicate Jobs ’ success at this and it is not for a lack of technology .
No . It ’s not . It ’s because Jobs and Apple are simply well than their competitors are at design and execution .
All this succeeder came at a price .
Dude , did you really just say his succeeder stimulate his cancer ? You mammoth , portentous snob ?
In a normal macrocosm , Jobs would have quit and spent loads of money getting better . However the cult of personality which had develop around Apple had forbidden that .
The Macalope does n’t know about you , but he can not conceive of an instance where he would suggest to someone with pancreatic cancer that if only he had spent more money , he might have cure himself . But , then , he ’s not a jack of Farrell ’s caliber .
Nevertheless the Apple cult of personality insisted that Jobs had got better and the operation was wide report to have worked right until this yr when Jobs again took fourth dimension off .
Throughout this idiotic waxing , Farrell does not supply one undivided nonsocial link to back up his assertion that Jobs was n’t really better and then present a setback , as happens all the time to cancer sufferers . Because he ca n’t , of course . Inconvenient facts are on the face of it not enough to stop him from being a overbearing , grotesque common scold .
However the veridical danger for Apple is that the reality deformation field of operations around its merchandise will fall apart over time .
Sure , sure , because it ’s all smoke and mirrors . WE GOT IT ALREADY .
Those who have come to trust that Steve Jobs is their personal savior , might have difficulty accepting Tim Cook in the same role .
straight . Fortunately , no one on the satellite outside the imaginary Apple - bonk demons that live in your head thinks that .
It is easy to buy a hatful of tat from a serviceman who you think is Jesus , however Tim has an uphill struggle convert anyone that Elijah ’s mantel has fallen to him .
The Macalope may not be able-bodied to parse all of your ham actor - fisted religious metaphor , but if you ’re enjoin Apple ’s sale will come down like a rock under Cook ’s tenure , he ’ll take that bet .
Needless to say we wait Apple ’s shareprice to suddenly become more naturalistic today .
The day after the declaration , when the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 1.51 percent , Apple dropped 0.65 percent . As of this penning , it ’s up almost 10 points . The Macalope ’s going to assume that was n’t precisely the adjustment you had in mind , or you would n’t have bring it up . look like your stock predictions are about as good as your horse sense of decency .
Saturday Special: Palate cleanser
After that , we need one .
Steve ’s retreat is n’t just an opportunity to be an incredible dork , like Farrell , it ’s also an opportunity to travail your personal ax , likeKatherine Noyes .
After some words of regard for Jobs , Noyes become to the meat of her argument : heart-to-heart !
Wow ! No ! Way !
Apple will obviously never become an capable reservoir company , of course — I’m not suggest it should .
Well , other than the fact that it uses a muddle of open - source , which you never seem to want to mention .
What I do think the company postulate to do , though …
Oh , God , this is going to besogood , the Macalope can just feel it .
… is to recognize the openness that is increasinglychanging the worldwe live in .
BOOM ! TakethatApple ! You thought your history over the last decade was one of marvelous , unprecedented success in bad economical condition ? ! Well , what about your failure to recognize the openness that is increasingly changing the world ? ! Huh?!In your face !
The connexion is , of row , toanotherpiece by Noyes about how awesome open is . Reading Katherine ’s employment is often like disrobe an Allium cepa — a dull , pedantic , smelly , overt - source onion .
transparentness and answerableness , for example , are now expected by consumers and citizen of the corporation and governments that exist to process them ; just look at Wikileaks for proof .
Right . Because Wikileaks has revolutionized the world , and government and corporation arefinallybeing completely transparent and accountable .
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Hahahahahahaha ! If anything , the Macalope would argue that the hallmark of the current economical and political climate in the first world has been the utterlackof accountability .
On the corporate side , consumer are now demand that company open up up about everything from product quality to pricing .
Katherine is doting of say thing that she wishes were lawful as if they were , in fact , true . But , as the Macalope is warm of saying in reaction , she is notthe Lathe of Heaven . Her pipe dream do not create reality . Hey , the Macalope ’s all for openness and accountability . But to argue that it ’s here is just laughable . Which would probably explain why the Macalope is laugh .
Apple ’s long - resist paternalistic and often arrogant coming flies in the font of this new “ transparency absolutism ( PDF ) , ” as it ’s been address . The fellowship ’s longtime reliance on secrecy and its “ we make out what ’s best for you ” attitude is n’t going to be a sustainable one over the years .
Really ? ! Wow ! Overwhichyears ? Apparently notthe 14 long time since Jobs returned .
Unlike Farrell ’s revolting diatribe , Noyes ’s piece is genuinely funny in its complete oblivion . It ’s like a delicious mint after a horrible dinner party .
Same goes for the inner workings of Apple ’s technology , which has traditionally been presented to consumers from on mellow as a “ fatal box ” to be used but not understood .
That ’s had significant security implications , as we see with the arrival of MacDefender , which made it clean-cut once and for all that the troupe ’s “ security through obscurity ” strategy just does n’t work .
She ’s still drum this drumfish . It ’s unbelievable . Despite the fact thatmalware on her beloved “ open - rootage ” Android is skyrocketingwhile it ’s practically unnamed on iOS , Noyes still has no compunctions about lecturing Apple on security system . That’schutzpah .
Apple ’s “ smuggled box ” scheme also flies in the face of the crowdsourcing tendency that ’s progressively being used by company and organizations to elicit consumers ’ involvement in primal decisions and the early stages of production design .
Crowdsourcing , in bit , flies in the case ofthe “ auteur ” trendthat is increasingly being go through as a way not to produce a tremendous payload of bull .
OK , count , the Macalope has nothing against crowdsourcing , per se , but both methods can be worthful . Auteurism is Apple ’s schtick , and the company uses it to large success . Denying that is simply lodge your finger in your ear and yelling “ LA - LA - LA - LA - LA OPEN SOURCE LA - LA - LA - LA - LA CROWDSOURCING ! ” Which , of course , isNoyes’sshtick .
Patents have apparently become a key part of Apple ’s strategy , costing the company — and its client — Brobdingnagian nitty-gritty of money and unavoidably delivering a setback to innovation .
As opposed to Google , Godhead of Android , which just dump two year worth of profit on some patents . Keep digging for that pony , Katherine ! You know it ’s somewhere under that atomic pile of manure !
The bottom course here is that no organization can be an island anymore . Apple may still enjoy a conscientiously give fan base …
Katherine . Katherine . Katherine . If we ’re define “ religiously devoted ” as “ blindly , unquestioningly following a ism and denying all argument that negate it , ” your devotion to open source take the bar . A teetotal and dull patty that you have to collect from scratch .
