Comments on: Steve Jobs Flips Out, Goes On Anti-Android/Adobe Tirade

By: DK

DK — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 05:52:14 +0000

I love how steve jobs loves to play a victim when he’s the biggest pirate.

Um.. news flash steve, you weren’t first in the “phone business” either.. just like google you are late in game stealing another companies idea, not unlike how you stole the concept of the GUI from Xerox.

Apple is great at repackaging other peoples tech inventions into consumer products.. so what you can’t handle when google does the same thing?

By: Mojo

Mojo — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:34:25 +0000

I have a Mac and PC for my work. I have an Ipod Touch, I would have an Iphone if it was not on ATT. I have a droid. The more I use the Droid, the more I like it.

The Iphone ATT deal is helping to power Droid sales. I have friends with the Iphone, and It is really neat. But My company uses Verizon. I am not going to change companies just for the Iphone. I don’t want to spend crazy money for a cracked iphone so that is why.

Apple has powered the Droid Phone, just as Microsoft Vista Powered Mac Sales.

From where I sit the Iphone ATT mistake is another missed que by Jobs. His Rant against Flash, Google and Adobe make Jobs look like a teen ager. All stupid and with a small penis.

By: Cloaky

Cloaky — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 07:09:41 +0000

Nice to see Apple has shown its true colors! [1984 Style!]

I wonder If Steve is ready to come out of the closet yet. A Turtle Neck! Seriously?????

I look forward to when our new iOverlord locks down Applications on OS-X like their iPad, iPod, and iPhone…

Man, I can’t wait for the new iGoverment uprising! I look forward to seeing why 1984 won’t be like 1984. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it Jobs!

http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/8830/applesaysgoogleisretard.jpg

By: deven

deven — Thu, 27 May 2010 22:04:09 +0000

i haven’t had a problem with flash until a few months ago when i upgraded to windows 7. Now any internet browser frequently craps out on me when im viewing flash based content. So for now flash sucks.

By: MS

MS — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 13:56:18 +0000

After this blah blah i just have to say: Symbian is the king of all. Apple try to beat it!

By: dave

dave — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 22:26:52 +0000

steve jobs = nerd hitler?

By: alex

alex — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 06:16:13 +0000

Wow.

So far, reading these messages, I would have learned that Apple invented everything and everyone else screwed them out of it. Glad I know better.

I like Apple. I love my iMac and MacBook Pro. I’m a recent convert to Macs (within the last year). I would have bought an iPhone instead of a Droid if Apple would have allowed me to.

See, I live in an area that AT&T doesn’t cover. Apparently I am one of the 3%… Right. Gimme a break. If Apple would have partnered with someone other than AT&T, and had decent home area coverage, they would have owned the market. It was ripe for competition, and I am glad to see that someone finally entered it and gave us poor 3%’ers a decent smart phone.

I believe in the free software and open source idea, and run all kinds of it on my Macs. Now, the androids are following in that tradition. I applaud Google for supporting that movement.

Is Google data mining? Obviously. Is Apple? YOU BET! So is Microsoft, Yahoo, Adobe, Betty Crocker, and every other corporation out there, including the US government. It’s how they live. It’s how they make money. It’s the world we now live in. None of them are innocent.

Ideas are “stolen” all of the time. That’s why you can buy a minivan from someone other than Chrysler, a hamburger from someone other than McDonald’s, and a smart phone from someone other than Apple (via AT&T). Lines are becoming blurred between business models, hardware people are developing software and vice-versa. Companies are being absorbed all of the time. M$ wouldn’t be the success it is today without the ideas and products it absorbed and rebranded. Apple would be nothing without the trip to Xerox PARC.

Everyone should be happy that we have these choices… It would be quite a gray world if we didn’t have competition out there. We’d all still be talking on Princess phones, looking at green monitors and using “clicky” keyboards.

By: akkharu1033

akkharu1033 — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:07:44 +0000

I have to disclose upfront: I am not a partisan here, because I use an iMac at home and a G1 on the road. Criticism of Apple is fair (especially for it’s bogus phone and new ipad), but no PC can ever convince me to switch back to the Windows platform and all of it’s instability and insecurity issues and desktop Linux (eg RedHat, Ubuntu, etc) is still playing catch up with drivers for new hardware, etc. Hence, I say long live the Mac Leopard. Stable, secure, and far faster with 1G of RAM then Vista with 2!!! The problem with Apple is that it’s other devices, like the ipod, iphone, ipad- they are just not the equal of the great iMac in their respective markets. The Moto Droid and Nexus One leave the iphone begging for a mercy shot to the head in terms of ease of use, compatibility with other software and hardware, battery and memory upgradeability, standardized USB ports, music from anyone and anywhere, virtual as well as real keyboards, etc. These are products that have not been rushed to market and well designed, unlike the over-hyped iphone. I think Android is a better OS for a PHONE than scaled down Mac Leopard, too. But, I must concede that old Steve is right: Flash sucks donkey d**k and html5 SHOULD replace it. Unfortunately, it’s an already-entrenched de facto Web standard we will probably have to accommodate for several years or cripple our anti-Flash devices from utilizing ALL the Web’s wonderful content in the meantime. Thank you, Steve for the iMac- the world’s best home desktop, and Leopard, the best home OS by far. But, f**k you, too, for your bogus ATT-only phones and consumer-shafting iTunes Stores. Just as Apple needed to cripple Microsoft when it got ridiculous and started shafting us with it’s de facto monopoly, it’s time for Google to cripple YOU now that YOU’RE getting outta hand with YOUR de facto monopoly, and when the day comes that the “don’t be evil” guys fulfill your prophecy (this is a when, not if computer history is any indicator), some new player will put THEM in their place, too. This is what makes real free markets a wonderful thing: the consumer doesn’t have to get sodomized for too long before competition brings alternatives to the table worth considering :-)

By: James. Braselton

James. Braselton — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 06:16:28 +0000

hi. There. You. Are. Wrong. Its. Going. Too. Be. The. Lg. Expo. Phone. With. A. Built. In. Projector. That. Will. Make. The. iPhone. Retreats. Because. The. iPhone. Won’t. Project. The. Avatar. Movie

By: Samurai Big Ed

Samurai Big Ed — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:46:52 +0000

How did this turn from a rant against Jobs, Inc. into a rant against Adobe? Flash may be nearing the end of its time, but to blast Photoshop? You must not be a photographer (or not willing to pay what it takes to be)!

And most of the other Adobe programs are top or in the top of their respective markets.

As far as Jobs, he is showing his true colors, he is a whiny little baby who doesn’t want to play if he isn’t in the lead.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:26:18 +0000

Hey Steve-When are YOU going to enter the PHONE business. I know my Iphone can’t make calls.

By: NowVoyager

NowVoyager — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:00:19 +0000

The Emperor has no clothes. iPad was an epic fail. Macs went to an Intel Chip. iPhone has a competitor who has more juice and potentially more market share (if TheGoog simply sent out something through the browser, it would reach the world in seconds).

Stevie killed his own phone by saddling it with ATT. He will have to answer to his shareholders for that.

By: MKE

MKE — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:22:19 +0000

Android OS is the future. It’s a fact and a reality. Whether that came about because of Apple’s success is irrelevant. Motorola and Verizon did a great job of getting Android the exposure it deserves. Yes, there are a few glitches now and then, but they will be fixed, and the OS will run like a dream. I have even seen Android on appliances, just a little taste of what’s to come. Android will pretty much run just about any appliance or device in the future I believe. Apple is so much into themselves that they don’t want to be a part of a good thing just because they didn’t come up with it. Apple will always have a loyal customer base, but I truly feel that in the end, the company who is willing to morph not only with the needs and wants of the people, but with other technologies and companies, is the one that will prevail. Right now, it looks like Google with Android OS is that company. SWALLOW IT JOBS.

By: bargle

bargle — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:16:57 +0000

Steve, if I had one thing to say to you, it would be: Steve, that whole Google is bullshit thing, yeahh….that’s bullshit.

By: asqwerth

asqwerth — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:29:21 +0000

There are many things to admire Apple for. But the one thing that Android’s fast development has shown up, is that Apple’s miniscule improvements for every new generation of iPhone OSes and hardware are a deliberate act to milk their customers and supporters for as long as possible. It’s not that Apple can’t push out the improvements quickly, I’m sure. I think people are starting to realise that there is a price to pay for continuing to buy into the Apple fun/cute/pretty ecosystem – higher cost, lesser freedom and control. For some, they are prepared to pay the price. But for others, because viable alternatives are around which they can see and compare, the Apple way may no longer be so attractive.