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Re: Thank Steve Jobs

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Post by DeusExMachina »

BasDirks wrote: post #26
fabulous wrote: post #23

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Android is the Modern day Nokia. Android's marketshare is WORTHLESS. Android is nothing but a 2nd rate copycat mobile OS from an evil corporation whose main goal is to steal user data and serve us shitty ads. Google is devoid of morals, ethics and taste. They sell ads for chrissakes! They're as low in the totem pole as used car salesmen! Android is nothing without iOS. NOTHING. Google is being sued left and right bec…

As it seems that non-hackers and just general idiots become more common on HN, it would be nice if pg & friends thought about some counter-measures.

I understand the general idiots point, but why non-hackers? I remember that a lot of time I read very valuable comments from doctors, or lawyers, or mathematicians. Some of the articles that go to the front page are not related to hacking and this has always been fine.

Re: Thank Steve Jobs

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Post by swombat »

coryl wrote: post #30
BasDirks wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As it seems that non-hackers and just general idiots become more common on HN, it would be nice if pg & friends thought about some counter-measures.

That's what the downvote is for

Actually, in the case of such an egregiously stupid comment, that's what the flag button is for.

Re: Thank Steve Jobs

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Post by angryasian »

sunchild wrote: post #16
bsphil wrote: post #3

Hipsters and overpriced consumer electronics?

The fact that you feel the need to disparage a man who, as part of a two-man team, charted the course for personal computing in the 1980's, workstation computing and CGI in the 1990's, and then went on to build the world's most valuable consumer electronics company – says more about you than it says about Steve Jobs. You might not like people who care about aesthetics, but I doubt you'd fare particularly well in a co…

in all honesty I think wozniak deserves more credit and bill gates did more to get affordable home computers to the mass than jobs did. But I have no doubts Jobs would of been successful regardless.

Re: Thank Steve Jobs

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Post by angryasian »

sunchild wrote: post #16
bsphil wrote: post #3

Hipsters and overpriced consumer electronics?

The fact that you feel the need to disparage a man who, as part of a two-man team, charted the course for personal computing in the 1980's, workstation computing and CGI in the 1990's, and then went on to build the world's most valuable consumer electronics company – says more about you than it says about Steve Jobs. You might not like people who care about aesthetics, but I doubt you'd fare particularly well in a co…

in all honesty I think wozniak deserves more credit and bill gates did more to get affordable home computers to the mass than jobs did. But I have no doubts Jobs would of been successful regardless.

Re: Thank Steve Jobs

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Post by revorad »

zmmmmm wrote: post #15

Thank you for being flawed enough that you failed to stop Android taking over the phone market, and thereby preventing the world from entering a technology dark ages where hardware and software ecosystems are locked down and controlled by huge corporations.

Are you suggesting Android is not controlled by a huge corporation? Android is a lot more open than iOS, but the interaction with customers is completely controlled by a handful of corporations.

We need an open source hardware device running a truly open source OS. That would be really nice.

EDIT: Even if we don't have open source hardware, what would be great is having the ability to buy modular parts to build up our own devices. This used to be common practice with desktops, but got totally killed since laptops took over.

If I had an extra life, that would be my startup.

Re: Thank Steve Jobs

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Post by vacri »

kubrickslair wrote: post #27
zmmmmm wrote: post #12

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> Apple's branding and advertising tends to exhibit a similar focus on how their products will improve your status, rather than on the capabilities of the actual hard/software Look at the lid of every mac book. Which way up is the Apple? Your way so that you naturally see it right side up when opening the lid? - no - it's upside down to you, because the point is, everyone else is supposed to see it.

Almost every other laptop manufacturer also does that, at least now-a-days. And it was true when I got my first laptop, a ThinkPad in 2004. Did Apple start the trend, and was it different before that? I am not sure, I could not find enough conclusive pictures of older models. More broadly, this is the kind of rationalizing which probably come from some irrational hate that the grandparent is talking about. Also to ta…

None of the Thinkpads that I have on hand (x30, T41 tablet, X201, Z61m, covers ~ 10 years) exhibit that feature, so it's not something "thinkpad does".

The difference with the Apple logo is that it is usually illuminated - rather than mere branding that you have to look for, it actually pulls your eye and works as an advertisement due to the difference in illuminance.

Re: Thank Steve Jobs

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Post by HaloZero »

Am I the only one who seems that this makes it seem like he's dead and just not stepping down from CEO of Apple? It's not like he's not going to do anything else in his life.

Re: Thank Steve Jobs

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Post by krevis »

zmmmmm wrote: post #12
skermes wrote: post #10

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To expand on mrk-hn's comment, I don't think the comparison is entirely without merit. From what I can tell, a lot of the scorn directed at hipsters (or at least the "hipster" archetype/strawperson) stems from fact (or perception) that they value cultural artifacts based on the social status that they can leverage those artifacts for, rather than for any intrinsic value they might have. Compare someone who tells thei…

> Apple's branding and advertising tends to exhibit a similar focus on how their products will improve your status, rather than on the capabilities of the actual hard/software Look at the lid of every mac book. Which way up is the Apple? Your way so that you naturally see it right side up when opening the lid? - no - it's upside down to you, because the point is, everyone else is supposed to see it.

It hasn't always been that way. The Powerbook G3 series (and before?) had a similar logo, but oriented in the other direction.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook_G4#Industrial_design

Re: Thank Steve Jobs

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Post by ryan-allen »

What if I didn't want to tweet the thank you? What apout quests?

Thanks for lovely computers and phones, especially the MacBook Air. It's my most favourite computer ever!

Hopefully the bar is raised sufficient enough that we wont go backwards in design and function. I once tried to buy a PC laptop just for something different (I've had Macs since 10.2), but nothing at all could come close to the MacBooks.

A nice screen, keyboard, trackpad and design all in one package is apparently too difficult for every other laptop manufacturer out there. Except for maybe Lenovo, they are a bit of alright. But there just isn't anything like the Air!

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