Monday, March 2, 2009

Isaac Newton was right, Apples do hurt your head

Let me just start by saying Steve Jobs is douchey. For those that don't know, Steve Jobs is the guy that runs Apple. First of all, I have to admit, Steve Jobs is a marketing genius and I respect him for that. He knows what people want to hear and he gives it to 'em. But what the people want to hear and the truth are not always one in the same. Eg. Here's an ad Apple ran insinuating that Microsoft had spent more money on ads than it had on it's operating system:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c01fGaPGFJE


But the funny thing is Apple ran that ad in the form of an ad campaign they'd been running against PC for a couple of years already, only after Microsoft finally challenged the Mac ads with this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi1se9rH7S8

"Let's pound 'em and when they respond, we'll just say they shouldn't be spending money on ads." It's really just an example of the say one thing, do another that Apple and Jobs love to do, but there's more. I know that a lot of people love Apple, my wife loves Apple, she has two of them, I have two Windows based computers. I don't think Mac's are as user friendly as some people think, they just don't work for me. I understand their design software rocks, and that's fine. In fact I have a buddy that uses his Mac for his design stuff, but won't touch it for anything else, he uses his PC instead. And I also understand that they don't get viruses (a problem I don't have with my PC because I run the right stuff to keep from getting them). Which brings me to my biggest beef with Jobs. He was one of the major players being upset about Microsoft's cornering of the market in the antitrust suit against them in the 90's. They all thought Microsoft was this big evil corporation that had a monopoly on an industry. Isn't that exactly what Apple is doing right now? Go try to buy any ONE Apple product and see if it works properly without having at least one more. Yes it creates less virus because no one else is allowed to build anything else compatible, but no one else can make money on it either, and that's exactly what they said Microsoft was doing. Now let me clarify, I didn't have a problem with Bill Gates' business practices in the 90's and I thought the antitrust suit was garbage, and in all honesty, I don't really have have a problem with Jobs way of running business, corner it if you want, if you can, more power to you. I respect greatly the perseverance and determination it must take to get there, you earned it. But, don't, in the 90's say that Microsoft is monopolizing the market just so the government will make them stop and you can do it in 2000's instead. That's my problem with them. I'm a PC.

2 comments:

  1. True, True!!! The complaints on monopolizing are normally followed up by the new monopolizer. The only complaint is really that one company wasn't able to do it sooner. I personally stay away from Apple simply because (well, the reasons you mentioned) along with the fact that I don't want Apple to run my home with all of its add ons. No thanks. I'm good with my PC as well. Obviously, I am a PC.

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  2. haha me 3..im a PC. im a fucking reject derelict on an apple..see you tomorrow!

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