just like many can't wait fir paranoid jobs steps down and leave for good. And it will be for good. Bye bye jobs and your paranoid ways. I read a book about marketing and bad bosses. One kist ten things a bad bids dies, eg, belittle the compition, hello, mac ads, every single one described Steve Jobs. He is a sweater wearing pin head that treats his employees bad, craps in the retail staff, pays them minium wage and nothing for them ifthey sell millions of dollars in product with no apple care and caters to iPhone mommies, chinese I need fiii I phone crowd, while nine of the trainers now now pro apps, it's all iLife and mobile loser me.
Can't wait for him to be gone for good. Perhaps Ives will step in and the marketing will have the balls to call it like it is and start building cutting edge computers and not ovrroriced on oupoee propriitary ECC memory, server CPUs on desk top when the i7s are just fine and cheaper with better graphics cards that don't cost $700 dollars.
Why? to satisfy the
minority of the minority that posts on Macrumors, or AppleInsider, or (insert name of Apple fansite)?
It's one thing to explore ways in which Apple can improve, even though their business model is the most successful out there, even though their notebooks are the most successful and coveted out there, even though their customers are the most satisfeid out there, even though their OS sets the standard - repeatedly, year after year . . . still, there is always room for improvement. But let's not go overboard in trying to somehow emulate Microsoft or other PC makers. MS is NOT an example for anything except how to destroy your credibility and churn out derivative products year after year and get away with such mediocrity thanks to licensing.
Microsoft does not have Apple’s audience of sophisticated consumers, and it’s ridiculous that the company keeps trying to pretend that it does. Microsoft serves an installed base of cheapskates through a blackmailed array of PC hardware companies who are forbidden from selling alternative software by exclusive licensing contracts. It also services, at very high cost to companies, a large number of corporate cube-holders who have no voice in the technology decisions forced upon them by corporate IT drones. Microsoft's consumer failure is only going to get worse. And there are a lot of poor bastards out there who have no choice but to stay on board. My heart goes out to them, and we'll keep the lifelines out for when they
can jump ship.
We should be thankful for Steve Jobs. And some of you really, really need to stop being so cheap, and understand that in the Apple world, hardware and software work a bit differently, and that "cutting-edge" will never trump the Art of Usability. Nor should it.
Given what else is out there, an OS you can use every day, on which it is a pleasure to do your work, on attractive hardware that is reasonably fast, is pretty cutting-edge already,
given what the alternatives are: Windows on generic PCs. Perhaps that isn't saying a whole lot. But for the majority of Apple's market that's plenty.
Or maybe having "cutting-edge" hardware on which you can play Crysis in Windows under Bootcamp, or for the sole purpose of boasting that you simply
have a CoreI7-Extreme-Ultra-GX5000 in order to make the socially maladjusted basement shut-in next door cry even harder, really is more important than whatever benefits we already enjoy and will enjoy from Macs and OS X in the future. Which would be sad indeed.
Vista is on the shelves right now, waiting for you, in whatever condition. And Windows 7 is just around the corner. Now might be a great time for some of you to switch to uh . . . see what you've been missing.
