I HATE APPLE

the other thing about that jobs picture that is suspicious is the idea that a frail, on the verge of death steve jobs would just be hanging around outside posing for pictures in his black skirt or w/e -- dude is one of the most secretive guys on the planet

> Before Apple, the hard truth was that the "inmates ran the asylum," in that products were typically designed by engineers to satisfy their own needs, as opposed to those of the actual consumers of the products.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Apple_I_Computer.jpg/250px-Apple_I_Computer.jpg

he says "before apple," he means before the nu-jobs renaissance

http://www.amazon.com/Inmates-Are-Running-Asylum/dp/0672316498

^ first came out in 99

really good book fwiw

The intersection of technology and liberal arts

possible translation: the ipad and devices like it have produced computing's equivalent of philosophy or comp lit: an expensive, self-indulgent diversion

i forget you're a science guy sometimes.

products were typically designed by engineers to satisfy their own needs, as opposed to those of the actual consumers of the products

sometimes "engineers" and "actual consumers" are one and the same, and things like quantum mechanics and the space program and the internet happen. this goes all the way back to fourier and the first engineers.

at the opposite end of the extreme, the two groups have little overlap. that's what you call a "service industry" and unlike "real industry" it doesn't do a whole lot for the long-term prospects of the country.

i'm not a "science guy", hoos, i'm a "civil servant", and thus a strict utilitarian

That is why even though this moment was long anticipated, and while I know that Steve isn't gone (and hopefully won't be anytime soon), yesterday's announcement nonetheless feels like a "Kennedy" or "Lennon" moment, where you'll remember "where you were when ..."

haha wut

i didn't mean "science guy" derisively, i meant it as "strict utilitarian."

i don't think so, hoos, i think you're confusing me with a strict rationalist

no, a strict rationalist wouldn't call philosophy "self-indulgent."

iPad as the signature moment in a brilliant career

The Shins Will Change Your Life

lol

Not Apple, where sacred cows are ground up and served for lunch as standard operating procedure.

sick company, brah!

http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/08/25/0811-steve-jobs.jpg

do you remember how zoolander had names for his faces

possible translation: the ipad and devices like it have produced computing's equivalent of philosophy or comp lit: an expensive, self-indulgent diversion

ah, yes, philosophy, that notably expensive exercise

A legacy with no equal.

A sentence with no verb.

ah, yes, philosophy college, that notably expensive exercise

I too long for the dark ages, don't get me wrong

We make things that are easy to use, fun to use

i am picturing derrida saying this

or possibly someone who designs learning resources for stupid kids

who's beefin and why

i'm beefin against SOCIETY

maaaaaaan

http://www.robertsharp.co.uk/images/paperclip_shuttle.gif

i am beefin in honor of tombot, and jon williams and nude spock before them

*LOLs furiosly*

that's the best thing i've seen all week

Ponder for a moment the predecessor to the Apple Store, CompUSA, and what that experience was like versus the new bar for customer service being set by Apple.

but really i think this is the pivotal sentence for me

what i am getting at is that in general, people can tell the difference between an article on lee iacocca and an article on john galliano, an article on jay z and an article on warren buffet. i think that steve jobs sort of muddles all of those parts together, and what disturbs me is the uncritical celebration of all of them equally, as if they're all the same thing.

the worst part about that sentence is that it is terribly written

i don't think there's an equivalency happening, the suggestion in these let's-call-them obits is that he was an impressive polymath.

ronin who never had a true master, so he had to create his own

the worst part of that sentence is the idea that america has become the world leader in "customer service"

how do you export customer service, i ask you

how is a predecessor an experience? why is an experience being compared to "[a] new bar of customer service"? why is that bar "being set" instead of having just been "set" already? how does anyone use the word "ponder," ever, and still take themselves seriously as a person that uses words*? i ask you.

*apologies to ned raggett here, obv

If you ask me, anything beneath Assembly is pandering to stupid idiot consumers. j/k

http://i.imgur.com/TtWYF.jpg

ha

btw congratulate my wife on her new MBP

congrats, mrs. p3rry!

eve pwned

Can't people just learn to get along? Even the 800 year old busted robot ended up with the love of his life.

At CompUSA I picked up something I wanted, carried it to the register, paid and walked out.

At an Apple Store, I fight for space with a crowd of yuppies and yuppie-children, try to flag down a lackey for service, evade them trying to sell me anything, tell them what I want, wait for them to go find one, then wait for them to make their handheld register work and finally get to pay and leave.

Fuck Apple Stores, IMO.

Milo Z? the band?

Sounds like your Apple Store sucks, man.

I usually walk over directly to what I need, some drone asks if I need something, and I yell "SCAN THIS HERE'S MY CARD MY EMAIL IS (my email) THANK YOU SIR!"

sooo.. iTunes Match is in beta