Apple ripping people off with the black MacBook 1708
George Graves
"I have news for you. Jobs is a left-wing Commie, just like you are."
Your damn straight that Jobs is a left winger just like me. That's why he makes such incredible products. It's because he cares for things other than the bottom line, even if this one exception is pretty bad.
If Jobs wanted to make more profits, he could easily just make nice case designs and sell them with Windows. He could sell iPhoto, iMovie, and iDVD for Windows. But because he is a liberal, he thinks of making something he can be proud of.
Let me put it another way. Steve Jobs makes pbuttionate stuff, like Led Zeppelin made pbuttionate music. They could have sold many, many, many more albums than they did if they just wanted to make money. The crap that's on the radio today, Led Zeppelin could write like an album a day. In other words, if they wanted to write 100 mediocre albums a year that sold a million copies each, rather than 1 great album that sold 5 million copies, they could. Any super talented person could find a way to make 10 times as much money by watering down their product to sell as much drivel as they can. Led Zeppelin could have taken some of their long songs with 5 great riffs and broken them down into 5 songs with 1 great riff and made more money selling it that way. That's what your average Republican would think. "Hey, why waste 5 great moments in one song when you can't get more money spreading them out over the whole album"
You talk about commercial pap music as if were high art. It isn't. It's only Rock-n'-Roll. They sure didn't make art. When you generation dies out, no one...
James Davis I agree with this to some extent. Apple has always been a dichotomy between Art and Bizness, with Steve generally being...
Jobs makes great stuff because he is a liberal and doesn't go chasing whatever marketing opportunities there are like Microsoft does.
America would be 100% the land of yuppies, lame reality shows, plastic country music, etc. if it weren't for the liberal spirit allowing at least some people to put pride before the bottom line.