Having owned a few iProducts, I'm of the (rare?) opinion that Steve Jobs was no Thomas Edison or that we'll see him rise from the dead today on Saturday, the Third Day. I do see shades of P.T. Barnum, Raymond Loewy, and Harley Earl in his persona, but that's about the extent of it. Lovely packaging, nice sales pitch, same hardware under the hood.
I just thought it was a nice graphic. I'm no fan of the "walled garden" model of computing/playback/telephony but Apple certainly wins on style and user interface (or we'd all still be muttering MS_DOS incantations, which would be all right with me -- I even liked CP/M and have yet to find a text editor I like as much as WordStar).
Anyway, the man's dead. I ain't grudgefighting any dead guys. History will, as ever, have the last word.
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Having owned a few iProducts, I'm of the (rare?) opinion that Steve Jobs was no Thomas Edison or that we'll see him rise from the dead today on Saturday, the Third Day. I do see shades of P.T. Barnum, Raymond Loewy, and Harley Earl in his persona, but that's about the extent of it. Lovely packaging, nice sales pitch, same hardware under the hood.
I just thought it was a nice graphic. I'm no fan of the "walled garden" model of computing/playback/telephony but Apple certainly wins on style and user interface (or we'd all still be muttering MS_DOS incantations, which would be all right with me -- I even liked CP/M and have yet to find a text editor I like as much as WordStar).
Anyway, the man's dead. I ain't grudgefighting any dead guys. History will, as ever, have the last word.
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