Final argument
I submit that anyone who believes that foisting 2-3 year old computer technology on the public while insisting it really is cutting edge is in for a huge and very nasty surprise once that company's BUBBLE created by marketing iToys to uneducated consumers inevitably pops. BUBBLES occur when uneducated naive new consumers flock to a perceived-as-new product FAD, market, or investment, and massive profits arise as seemingly everyone piles in.
However, inevitably the gloss comes off, reality sets in, the BUBBLE reveals itself to have been a pyramid scheme once everyone was in, and the money and interest and audience for whatever created the BUBBLE in the first place flees elsewhere. Steve Jobs and Apple cannot continue reworking old fads and even ancient computer technology (pre-flash SINGLETASKING) and market them as the next big fad forever.
Jobs is blinded by his own success, and refuses to accept any other possible paradigm. The man needs to sit down at the 65" Plasma he's been provided, the latest Blu-ray player, a great 7.1 surround system, and slap on his favorite classic film, or even something truly spectacular like the last Trek film, get over his cowardice for an hour or two, and THEN and only THEN try and figure out a way to bring THAT experience to Apple COMPUTER owners. It is obvious he never in his life has done so because it might truly pop his mental iToyworld BUBBLE. Instead of resurrecting a failed apple TV to be plugged into an iTunes store foisting crappy resolution compressed video to his audience and fighting uselessly and sillily against strapped governments who won't have broadband to all their citizenry worldwide until 2050 because of Worldwide Depression, why doesn't he have the software division working on software to make Apple iMacs and Mac Pros the center of a home entertainment system?
With more and more people unemployed and sitting at home, with prices for big screens coming down daily, it is only a matter of time before even the most modest home has largescreen capability, and will DEMAND Blu-ray to fill it. THAT is the future, not some pie in the sky dream that people will accept LOWLY quality because it has the barest potential of making Apple more trillions if they can only convince people to ACCEPT OBVIOUSLY and MARKEDLY INFERIOR DOWNLOADS, whatever the "instant gratification".
It is a battle Jobs and Apple will lose, because they've cast in with pirates and thieves and the lifestyle OF UTTERLY VALUELESS CONTENT NOT EVEN WORTH STORING for a second view or listen that being able to steal music for a business generation has produced. If not for the BUBBLE in their bottom line and their ability because of it to buy off the press completely, and the most ridiculous of halo effects from idiot iCrap purchasers buying obsolete computers, they've already lost. When that BUBBLE finally pops, and it will as all BUBBLES invariably do, Apple will be gone, and deservedly so.
Instead of foisting the lowest common possible experience upon all, how about figuring a way to provide the highest possible experience to all for a change? And ethical to boot.
I know. Far too much to ask of a god. Why bother when you can prop up your BUBBLE for five more minutes by raiding 60's Dick Tracy Sunday comics with wrist iTV's? Which Apple still won't beta-test and will only work if you hold your arm in two positions: Zieg Heil and Heil Hitler.
