Writer's Block: Remembering Steve Jobs

[mercy_angel_09]

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You mean beyond the love of the Pixar films? Hmmm...

My very first experience with a computer was on my dad's Apple and in middle school we had the Mac Lab for class use.

Otherwise I've been running on a PC. Old IBMs and eMachines and most recently Compaqs and HPs. I'm pretty sure you can't classify the custom built Home Theater PC.

If anything, Jobs kept pushing for change in the computer industry, but I certainly don't buy into the whole, "Macs are better than PCs" spiel that he seemed to be pushing over the last several years. For the pushing for innovation, I can respect that. Everything else? Not so much.

I certainly don't believe that he was some sort of mega revolutionary that totally made the world stop and think. If anything, he created a bunch of drones in the Apple fans, who felt that conforming to the whims of Apple was the entirety of their lives. Also, paying for ridiculously overpriced goods that were no better than another name brand product. I could buy a PC with all of the same components as my friend's MacBook Air (same processor, memory, storage space, etc.) for half of the cost. For those of you going, "But Macs don't get as many viruses," that's because viruses are created to do the most damage. Most people have PCs, therefore most viruses are created to take down PCs. If everyone had Macs, then Macs would get just as many viruses as PCs get now.

Congratulations, Jobs, you perfected the art of willing highway robbery.

I'm not saying that he's evil and shouldn't be commended for how he did push for change and developments in computers, but on the same note, the man was hardly a saint. He was very good at what he did - making computers and then charging way too much for them.

How very American of him...

Comments

[teamspyder.livejournal.com]

There was an article that someone wrote on him in regards to him not being God and the guy that wrote it was right. Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, a pioneer in the Civil Rights movement, died that same day but he got NO coverage whatsoever. I love how Americans hold those that are millionaires & billionaires at such high regard despite them doing such ungodly things in their lives. Yeah, Jobs innovated some machines, good for him. I'm not going to mourn over his death just because he created material objects and charged crazy prices for them.

Oh yeah, Charles Napier died the same day as well and got a little coverage. Now we'll never hear Duke on The Critic ever again. ;_;

[mercy-angel-09.livejournal.com]

Oh my gosh yes. It's amazing, you'd think that he was the only one who died that day, the way the internet seems to be fawning over him. From what I've read, the man was total tool and a tyrant. Yes, he did great things for the computer industry, but the way that everyone talks about him, you'd think that he was so much more. I never heard about him devoting time to charitable organizations or relief funds, or about him being a great human being. (Say what you will about Bill Gates, but the man has devoted a considerable amount of his fortune to scholarship funds and other charitable organizations.)

Seriously, the man was not as great as everyone says he was. He was human. He was flawed. And while I understand that we have a hard time speaking ill of the dead (has it stopped us from bashing Hitler and Stalin to kingdom come... nope) people are making so much more out of him than is necessary.