So, fair to say that "Apple is as bad as Microsoft"?![]()
I'd say far worse. Bill Gates has spent the last part of his life giving away multi-millions to make the world a better place, while Steve Jobs spent the last years of his life trying to kill technologies he didn't personally like, like flash and Blu-ray and optical, and to FORCE his often-flawed "vision" down the screaming throats of his lifelong customers while actively pursuing blind child adherents and acolytes.
VAST difference in personality, temperament, and altruism, and I imagine having a loving wife had a lot to do with it. Tends to keep the megalomania in check.
Hopefully Apple will now be returning to the REAL world. There is a vast difference between running a company and running a cult, as there should be.
Let's hope apple gets real and sinks back into the "real" grey mass and risk the same obscurity as all other brands.
Cults, always end badly.
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Maybe Bill is just trying to give back what he didn't deserve.Such wisdom backed by a detailed anaylsis of the arcs in each individual's life. Your conclusion is also very astute since any company producing good product, supported by best of breed marketing, that aggressively defends its interests and that reserves cash in order to react to any opportunity is clearly a cult and not a well run organization.
Do you run an MBA course because I want to attend?
I'd say far worse. Bill Gates has spent the last part of his life giving away multi-millions to make the world a better place, while Steve Jobs spent the last years of his life trying to kill technologies he didn't personally like, like flash and Blu-ray and optical, and to FORCE his often-flawed "vision" down the screaming throats of his lifelong customers while actively pursuing blind child adherents and acolytes.
VAST difference in personality, temperament, and altruism, and I imagine having a loving wife had a lot to do with it. Tends to keep the megalomania in check.
Hopefully Apple will now be returning to the REAL world. There is a vast difference between running a company and running a cult, as there should be.
Cults, always end badly.
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Didnt want to feed that trolls post thus why I reply to the ones that make sense.If you ever read about Gates you would well know that he had/has a temper that would blow Jobs' out of the water and an ego the size of Texas, Gates is/was the ultimate ego maniac
Looking forward to the day "Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple" no longer is the lead story on MacRumors' front page.
Such wisdom backed by a detailed anaylsis of the arcs in each individual's life. Your conclusion is also very astute since any company producing good product, supported by best of breed marketing, that aggressively defends its interests and that reserves cash in order to react to any opportunity is clearly a cult and not a well run organization.
Do you run an MBA course because I want to attend?
If you ever read about Gates you would well know that he had/has a temper that would blow Jobs' out of the water and an ego the size of Texas, Gates is/was the ultimate ego maniac
Didnt want to feed that trolls post thus why I reply to the ones that make sense.
Yep read the first book on him years ago.
Even at his early days he was quite the terror.
You do not need to take an MBA course, you've obviously become fascist by taking far too many. However, I would suggest several years of study of ethics, morality, and religions of the world.
Which, of course, absolutely negates everything positive he's done in his life. And absolves Steve Jobs of everything fascist he's done in the last five years.
Only in The Job's Cult worshippers' eyes.
Pathetic. I am not critiquing a man as much as I am critiquing his zombies.
Who ALWAYS miss the point.
Conveniently.
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If this has not been all ready linked:
An exellent article in Newsweek: American Genius, Steve Jobs, How He Drove Apple to Victory, How He Changed Our World
Take that Microsoft!![]()
You on the other hand simply see a large well marketed organisation, that occassionally attacks, being run by someone that is not as publically philanthropic as some of his contemporaries and conclude that SJ and Apple are bad. Your black and white world is too simple and I'll let others decide why you may make such simple arguments.
Good points, and a nice subtle distinction between "avoidance" and "evasion".
So, fair to say that "Apple is as bad as Microsoft"?![]()
Legally from my understanding, it is significant.
It would be like me buying a product from California, so I don't have to pay Minnesota Sales tax. V.S. using my friends Tax Exempt ## here in Minnesota to skip paying the same tax.
The first is 100% legal, while the 2nd is not.
Legally from my understanding, it is significant.
It would be like me buying a product from California, so I don't have to pay Minnesota Sales tax. V.S. using my friends Tax Exempt ## here in Minnesota to skip paying the same tax.
The first is 100% legal, while the 2nd is not.
For me in California, both options would be illegal.
What I see, is a man and his company, much like the country that hosts it, as having started out as one thing and ending up another thing entirely different, if not the exact opposite.
And once people, companies, and countries go down that road, they do not often ever return. That is history. Sadly.
And yes, it is that simple, and that black and white, and that tragic. And a fate that could have been avoided by listening to their harshest critics many points along the fall instead of their rabid cheerleaders, and, in your case, mild apologists.
There is something inherently wrong with the entire idea and nature of corporations, entities that are only beholden to themselves for achieving profit at any and all costs, up to and including obliteration of one country of consumers in quest of others. Such entities will inevitably destroy themselves and each other, whether they are headed by one human being or many. And governments unfortunately are not up to the task of controlling what is, essentially, an unethical thing with no other motivation other than greed. Because governments are far too easily bought.
And even that concept, is that simple. Much like the tired old precept that never ONCE was listened to by Steve Jobs and Apple, "The [current] customer is always right."
Instead, you have the corporate epitaph: "The FUTURE customer is always right."
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Fair enough.For me in California, both options would be illegal.
If you buy a product out of state and have it shipped to your state, you're supposed to declare it on your state income tax form and pay a use tax on it.
An individual, however, can purchase up to $770 in taxable items for personal use without owing use tax. If the individual buys more than $770 in a calendar year, that person owes use tax on all taxable items purchased that year.
Originally Posted by cmaier
If you buy a product out of state and have it shipped to your state, you're supposed to declare it on your state income tax form and pay a use tax on it.
This is news to me. I may have to fire my Tax lady if that is the case!![]()
California law, YMMV.
Competition has an end. Maybe the ultimate monopoly is the universal democracy.