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Jimmy Iovine Criticized After Making Controversial Comments About Women

I'm sorry, but what is wrong with his statement specifically? He is simply stating that there's a need for a more user friendly service. He stated a situation where there can be demand, and he claimed the current solutions do not meet that demand.
The deniers are the geeks that for some reason think tech has to be complicated and filled with command lines.

I mean Steve Jobs said Apple is making computers for us mere mortals. Is that a wrong statement?
 
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Small White Car said:
To me, when you mention a sub-group it means you're comparing that group to something. Is that not true? Do people sometimes divide things up without any intention of comparing those things?
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Of course. Maybe I say that "puppies are cute", in your world you're assuming I think dogs, or maybe kittens, aren't cute? That's really not good critical thinking my friend.

There was no mention of a comparator, if he said "...more difficult...", for example, you might have had a point.

It seems to me you're choosing to ignore the context and specifics, and in doing so you're betraying your own implicit biases.
 
MacLC said:
From that I gather political correctness is just something fashionable now. It's not that people really care. They just want to be seen as caring.
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That's quite a leap. Another explanation is just that there are generational and societal differences in perception of what's acceptable?
 
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From the reasonable person, his comment deserves a yawn; and if you're an extremist, an eye roll. Anything beyond that, you're the idiot.
 
maxsix said:
It's the same diversion tactics golfer boy models for his adoring supporters. The USA hasn't had anyone at the top rung that's as weak and spineless as golfer boy. He's done a fine job of shirking his duties.
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It must be a miserable existence to be so consumed by your own political impotence that a random internet thread about a music personality becomes an unrelated soapbox to rant about a politician.
 
.Andy said:
It must be a miserable existence to be so consumed by your own political impotence that a random internet thread about a music personality becomes an unrelated soapbox to rant about a politician.
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I missed something. Can anyone explain what he meant by golfer boy? Who is that?
 
I don't see anything wrong with what he said.

People get offended too easily these days. Can't say/do anything without someone throwing a fit.
 
What has happening to the once proud USA? You are turning into a bunch of brainwashed wusses constantly feigning faux outrage. At the same time your government has helped created ISIS (see Judicial Watch, Pentagon rapport from 2012), drone-bombing innocent people in various countries around the world, having corrupt big industry buying politicians, avoid taxes and ripping off the middle class etc..etc. What is wrong with you people?
 
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This man should really sit somewhere out of sight.
He's ineloquent, unsightly and hardly a person who should speak on Apple's behalf.
His keynote speech was devastatingly unprofessional for someone with such experience as a CEO even though it was probably rehearsed ad nauseam.

PC or not, the way he blurts out whatever comes to his mind and the Apple PR having to do damage control over their "media liaison" is laughable at best, but then again Cook and Ive can't appear everywhere all the time.
 
Mac32 said:
What is happening with USA? You are turning into a bunch of brainwashed wusses constantly feigning faux outrage. At the same time your government has helped created ISIS (see Judicial Watch, Pentagon rapport from 2012), drone-bombing innocent people in various countries around the world, having corrupt big industry buying politicians, avoid taxes and ripping off the middle class etc..etc. What is wrong with you people?
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Amen!

You summed up everthing I always argue on this forum.

The last two generations seem to be largely made of crazy pansy boys who are not bothered by their government creating an artificial terrorist threat, the erosion of privacy or anything else a healthy individual would consider worth fighting for. They rather fight against free speech because words are mean :rolleyes:
 
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Meister said:
The last two generations seem to be largely made of crazy pansy boys who are not bothered by their government creating an artificial terrorist threat, the erosion of privacy or anything else a healthy individual would consider worth fighting for. They rather fight against free speech because words are mean :rolleyes:
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...it's not a new phenomena that prior generations struggle to understand newer ones and believe they're misguided...it's change and progress...
 
robeddie said:
Thanks, but at the risk of sounding even dumber now, who the heck is Aka Barry?

Edit: Ah, figured it out. Barry, Golfer boy are names people use for Obama when they don't like him. Got it.
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Barack Hussain Obama used to be registered under the name Barry Soetoro in his elementary school.

He was also listed as being a muslim.
 
.Andy said:
It must be a miserable existence to be so consumed by your own political impotence that a random internet thread about a music personality becomes an unrelated soapbox to rant about a politician.
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ROLFLMAO. That was sufficient description for you to know who he was talking about.
 
cmichaelb said:
LOL good point, but would it be an issue if Iovine said the same statement about men? Nope, not at all. The same people complaining now would be dead silent.
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Comparing men to women in this context is not a like-for-like comparison, as the offense taken at the statement is rooted in centuries of repression that women have suffered, while men have not. To compare like-for-like, I think it would be more accurate to compare one repressed minority to another.

For example, would people be outraged if he had made these comments about black people? Yes, they likely would.
 
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We live in such a weird world.

The most likely Republican presidential candidate at the moment, Donald Trump, on the same day as Iovine's comments said that all Muslims should have to register themselves as Muslims with the government (which sounds a little bit like something else from the last century).

He'll never apologize for that. Granted he's now a politician playing to a certain crowd, but he still owns a lot of businesses. There are probably Muslims in his hotels right this second hearing what he said from a TV in a hotel with his name on it. You would think he of all people with people from all stripes of life going through all of his hotels would be careful.

Can you imagine if Tim Cook said that all Muslims should have to register with the government?

That's why I feel like there are different worlds concurrently existing. I think Tim Cook would probably step down and Apple would be severely tarnished. Yet comments like Trump's don't seem to be a liability for his businesses, let alone his presidential bid.
 
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