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Great article on wired

This is from when Steve met Wozniak in the valley at the Homebrew computer club.

If you view computer designers as artists, theyre really into more of an art form that can be mass-produced, like records, or like prints, than they are into fine arts, he told me in 1983. They want something where they can express themselves to a large number of people through their medium, and their medium is technology and manufacturing. Later he would refine this point of view by talking about Apple as a blend of engineering and liberal arts. .

Jobs usually had little interest in public self-analysis, but every so often hed drop a clue to what made him tick. Once he recalled for me some of the long summers of his youth. Im a big believer in boredom, he told me. Boredom allows one to indulge in curiosity, he explained, and out of curiosity comes everything. The man who popularized personal computers and smartphones machines that would draw our attention like a flame attracts gnats worried about the future of boredom. All the [technology] stuff is wonderful, but having nothing to do can be wonderful, too.

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Blitty
I'm guessing Morty is a Droid guy. By definition you have to hate Apple products if you own one of those..:rolleyes:
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Incorrect I do not own anything running Android. My phone is old and still runs Windows 6.5

I dislike Apple because I like to tinker with things and want to use a device as I see fit. They restrict what you can do and that just does not work for me. For example, my brother wanted to read an ebook that I had. I emailed it to him because he wanted to read it on his iPad. Unfortunately, Apple has decided that he could not download that attachment. He had to wait until he was home and install it through iTunes.

I could bring up countless others things on why I do not use Apple products but it is pointless as it will not change others minds. In fact, I have no problem if people want to use Apple products. I just get tired of people telling me they are the greatest products and wondering why do I not own any.
 
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in Beijing, Xiuqing Yang, 25, came to one of the two stores in the city "so I can mourn." The elementary school teacher said he owns a MacBook laptop, iPad, iPhone 4, iPod and iPod Touch.

"Not everything from America is great," Yang said, "but everything from Apple is great."

Outside, bouquets of white flowers traditional for mourning in China had been left near the entrance. Nearby was a handwritten sign that read "THX."

Steve on Microsoft, before the big investment of course

"The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste...I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don't think of original ideas, and they don't bring much culture into their product...So I guess I am saddened, not by Microsoft's success--I have no problem with their success; they've earned their success for the most part. I have a problem with the fact that they just make really third-rate products."

-- From "Triumph of the Nerds."

"It's in Apple's DNA that technology alone is not enough. It's technology married with liberal arts, humanities that yields us the result that makes our heart sing. And nowhere is that more true than in these post-PC devices."

-- From the unveiling of the iPad 2 in March 2011.

That sentiment harkens back to something Jobs said in his oral history interview with the Smithsonian in April 1995: "I actually think there's actually very little distinction between an artist and a scientist or engineer of the highest caliber...They've just been to me people who pursue different paths but basically kind of headed to the same goal, which is to express something of what they perceive to be the truth around them so that others can benefit by it."

TAKING MEDICAL LEAVE (January 2011)

"I love Apple so much."

-- From an e-mail to Apple employees in January 2011 in which Jobs said he was going on an indefinite medical leave.


I love this from his speech at Stanford

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960s, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and Polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

And I have always wished that for myself.

And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

We will love you forever Steve, thank you!
 
That makes sense, Morty.

That's sounds like a dilemma that I would never have to deal with. I hear way more anti-apple rants than people praising it. It's starting to get annoying. Anytime you purchase a product there are options between brands. This is no different. Each individual has there own needs when they choose which company they go with. Apple has suited me perfect over the past few years, and I recall always having problem with other phones and PC's. Tired af people saying how it sucks and my life would be so much better with a different company. That's just not true at this point.
 
After reading all these recent FB statuses it makes me want to take back what I said. LOL.

I guess there are some apple wackos out there, that consider it a lifestyle. I don't give a shit about that. I'm just very satisfied with my iPhone and Mac book pro experiences.
 
The guy who invented penicillin or the guy who figured out how to chlorinate water so people won't die in millions was famous. The guy who invented portable music, portable phones and portable computing not so famous in my book.
 
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Some people are tired of hearing about Apple products.

I'm tired of hearing about how much people dislike Apple products.
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I never used Apple products but I don't rant about dislike them. For me they are way too overpriced and I can find equivalent products at 1/2 or a 1/3 of the price. Sure a phone that costs $150 a month or a laptop that costs $2000 is cool but at the end of the day it does 95% of the tasks a $50 a month phone does and a $500 laptop does. It may be 18 ounces lighter and 2 square inches smaller but I can live without it.
 
I like playing with Apple products, they be slick and marvels of design and engineering. Their UI's are too inflexible though, I'm used to there being a million ways to accomplish the same thing in the Windows/Unix/Google world. It's not even a preference of mine, I just got brainwashed very early on.
 
Pavy
I never used Apple products but I don't rant about dislike them. Sure a laptop that costs $2000 is cool but at the
end of the day it does 95% of the tasks a $500 laptop does.
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This is precisely the nonsense I'm tired of hearing.

You can buy a fucking MacBook Pro for $1100 at Best Buy right now.

And that's not even mentioning screen quality, durability etc etc etc
 
Pavy just forgot to update his prices. You can get a full-blown mainstream laptop for $400 now. There's no doubt that feature-for-feature, Apple is considerably more expensive, but the build quality is also way, way higher.
 
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