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I hope it's been long enough to talk about Steve Jobs without anyone getting personally upset. I never met the man so I'm not upset about his passing nor do I wish to upset anyone who personally knew him who might be upset.
http://www.economist.com/node/21531529 notes he was no an engineer, but was a control free (i.e. autocratic). I didn't say it publicly, but my view was more like this letter from http://www.economist.com/node/21532241
"He managed successfully to sell some overpriced toys to a comparatively small number of wealthy people in industrialised nations who could afford to play with them. What is the big accomplishment in that?"
I mean to me helping a bunch of people masturbate their ears while they work out and walk to the store isn't much of an accomplishment. He's just a corporate man. See also " Written on the back of my iPod are the words, “Designed by Apple in California, Assembled in China.” "
However, somebody who actually did something important recently died too - to no fanfare.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/10/obituary-0
Dennis Ritchie invented the C programming language and was deep into the creation of UNIX. I'm not that savvy, but it may well be that those little toys people play with are in fact programmed in C (or whatever version is in use today). The OS is Unix.
http://www.economist.com/node/21531529 notes he was no an engineer, but was a control free (i.e. autocratic). I didn't say it publicly, but my view was more like this letter from http://www.economist.com/node/21532241
"He managed successfully to sell some overpriced toys to a comparatively small number of wealthy people in industrialised nations who could afford to play with them. What is the big accomplishment in that?"
I mean to me helping a bunch of people masturbate their ears while they work out and walk to the store isn't much of an accomplishment. He's just a corporate man. See also " Written on the back of my iPod are the words, “Designed by Apple in California, Assembled in China.” "
However, somebody who actually did something important recently died too - to no fanfare.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/10/obituary-0
Dennis Ritchie invented the C programming language and was deep into the creation of UNIX. I'm not that savvy, but it may well be that those little toys people play with are in fact programmed in C (or whatever version is in use today). The OS is Unix.