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Originally Posted by Frosstbyte
What is the author of that article hiding the ball about, will? He keeps talking about "brave new future of awesomeness" but I'm not specifically aware of a pending thrilling announcement that Apple's keeping shut up.
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Sorry? I mean that happens like every year. If it's not the iPhone, it's an iPod update or a new laptop. Apple is quick to develop and release new things.
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Originally Posted by Frosstbyte
That being said, that's the least objective psychological profile I think I've ever read. I guess his point is well meant, but he's either going to piss you off for all the same reasons that people are already pissed off or he's going to be preaching to the choir. Characterizing the entire situation as a family seems bizarre at the onset but it strangely convincing. Beyond that, I think he gives Jobs WAY too much credit, agency and deference.
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It's not a profile. It's a subjective study of the market by using his experience in clinical psychology with family units to illustrate his points. Love him or hate him, Jobs is one of the most important people in computers not just today, but for years back. And Job is firmly at the head of Apple. If there were to be a "daddy" archetype for Apple, it's clearly Jobs.
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It's not a lie, Apple fanboys. Jobs and Apple CAN make mistakes. Really! They've made some bad ones in the past, though they're on a pretty solid streak at the moment.
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We've all seen the AppleTV. We all remember the iBook toilet seat. No one thinks Jobs is infallible, even the most devoted Apple users.
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They have a great design team and a great vision of integration, but the paternalism is and will always be what kills me about Apple. Far from explaining that, this article apologizes for it and says, "I'm better off that way." I'm not, and that has nothing to do with wanting Steve Jobs to like me and has everything to do with wanting my technology to look and do and contain what I want it to, not what Steve Jobs wants it to.
I think there are an incredible number of computer users (especially advanced computer users) who agree with that, and Apple will always alienate them so long as the policy is that "our technology does what we want it to not what you can imagine it might."
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Apple is not Windows, nor linux. People are still having trouble dealing with that. Apple is not massively open source. They're more authoritarian, but they're massively stable and better integrated. That's the reality. I know it's fun to toy and tinker and such, and I've enjoyed trying out Ubuntu, but it's a different animal than Apple's products. It's not stable, the apps available are hardly stellar, and it's a pain to have to go out and find things in order for it to perform basic computer functions. If you want a phone to do what you want it to do, then wait for the google phone. It's probably going to be more open source, but less stable and less functional out of the box.