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| Thread ID: 121130 | 2011-10-12 22:07:00 | What everybody has been too polite to say about Steve Jobs... | Billy T (70) | PC World Chat |
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| 1237196 | 2011-10-12 22:07:00 | Just what it says, (gawker.com) and posted in the interests of full and informed comment. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 1237197 | 2011-10-12 22:15:00 | Makes very interesting reading | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1237198 | 2011-10-13 00:02:00 | I've seen countless articles just like this since he died, I don't know why Gawker is pretending they're the lone voice in the wilderness. | Siobhan Keogh (16063) | ||
| 1237199 | 2011-10-13 00:13:00 | I've seen countless articles just like this since he died, I don't know why Gawker is pretending they're the lone voice in the wilderness. x2 Where were these detractors when he was alive? Certainly not as visible as now. |
WalOne (4202) | ||
| 1237200 | 2011-10-13 00:40:00 | I thought the article was petty. Apple/Steve Jobs, its all marketing, if you get sucked in by the hype then its up to you to get smarter. Learn the lesson, dismiss the trickster. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 1237201 | 2011-10-13 01:24:00 | It is the comments below the article that are the most illuminating, but from my perspective, Jobs was more of a marketing whiz than a technical expert. He was of the "build it and they will come (buy)" school of entrepreneurship, and the massive pre-ordering rush to be first with the latest iPhone (presumably by people who also pre-ordered the previous version) speaks loudly for the effectiveness and lack of morality of consumerism marketing. It is probably fair to say that the vast majority of current iPhones now being replaced by the latest 'must have' model are still working as they should, but will simply be binned. For me, there is something fundamentally discomforting about that, given the sweatshop conditions in which the now old and the current flavour of the moment were manufactured. Facing facts, if the sweatshop staff that make them were paid a living wage and given decent working and living conditions, the price of an iPhone would have to rise for sure, but it would make no difference to the Apple aficianados, they would buy them anyway, and the financial position of the late and probably unlamented Steve Jobs would be no different; fat lot of good it did him anyway. In terms of Apple product marketing cycles, the iPhone 5 is probably but a blink of the eye away from production as we debate, and most of those 'must-have' iPhone 4s will be landfill, just like Steve Jobs. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
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