It's lost it. It's become just a corporate giant, as IBM was when Apple launched their "let's be different" campaign way back.
I want that old mixture back; scientific progress and culture. But I
doubt it'll come readily. Such driven personalities with sufficient
balls to bring it about, are few and far between.
Do we want them to keep on coming? Yes, we do. They push the world
forward; give us the notion of progress.
On 9/14/23 13:09, Ed Cryer wrote:
It's lost it. It's become just a corporate giant, as IBM was when
Apple launched their "let's be different" campaign way back.
So you're saying they became what they swore to destroy?
candycanearter07 wrote:
On 9/14/23 13:09, Ed Cryer wrote:
It's lost it. It's become just a corporate giant, as IBM was when
Apple launched their "let's be different" campaign way back.
So you're saying they became what they swore to destroy?
Yes. But IBM never had a Steve Jobs.
They never had someone trying to bring beauty into tech; someone with a higher vision than science; someone who kept going time and again to
Japan in search of the meaning of life; someone looking beyond profit
and comfort.
Ed
It's lost it. It's become just a corporate giant, as IBM was when Apple launched their "let's be different" campaign way back.
And the products show it; they're no longer driven by Steve Jobs' almost manic charisma. God bless him, wherever he is.
Updates are badly tested, frequent bug-fixes issued, competitors have overtaken them, Apple Corp is full of bums-on-chairs.
When Steve Jobs was CEO you bought into sitting in a restaurant with
him, discussing Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions,
or Zen Buddhism and the difference between intuition and intellect. But
not now. You buy a gadget now.
I want that old mixture back; scientific progress and culture. But I
doubt it'll come readily. Such driven personalities with sufficient
balls to bring it about, are few and far between.
Do we want them to keep on coming? Yes, we do. They push the world
forward; give us the notion of progress.
Ed
candycanearter07 wrote:
On 9/14/23 13:09, Ed Cryer wrote:
It's lost it. It's become just a corporate giant, as IBM was when
Apple launched their "let's be different" campaign way back.
So you're saying they became what they swore to destroy?
Yes. But IBM never had a Steve Jobs.
They never had someone trying to bring beauty into tech; someone with a higher vision than science; someone who kept going time and again to
Japan in search of the meaning of life; someone looking beyond profit
and comfort.
Ed
On 9/14/23 15:53, Ed Cryer wrote:
candycanearter07 wrote:
On 9/14/23 13:09, Ed Cryer wrote:
It's lost it. It's become just a corporate giant, as IBM was when
Apple launched their "let's be different" campaign way back.
So you're saying they became what they swore to destroy?
Yes. But IBM never had a Steve Jobs.
They never had someone trying to bring beauty into tech; someone with
a higher vision than science; someone who kept going time and again to
Japan in search of the meaning of life; someone looking beyond profit
and comfort.
Ed
So a fall from grace..
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