This high minded technology leader is out to protect the masses from inferior and clumsy technology (Steve Job's post on Flash). Baloney. He is looking to control our computing world which is exactly what he fought against in the early days of Apple. "A Computer for the Rest of Us." Crap. Allow me to explain.
Today I was playing with my new iPad and kept running into videos that don't play. I am also invested in a Business Intelligence company that makes extensive use of Java. As the world already knows Flash and Java applications are not supported on the iPhone and the iPad. Here are two technology innovations that currently have no competition. Interesting that Steve, who is clearly trying to protect us, has not pulled support for these technologies from Apple's line of computers.
You know why Apple still supports these inferior technologies on their computer platforms? Because there is competition. If he pulls them from Apple's computers than we might be upset enough to start voting with our wallets. We, I, would actually abandon Apple computer products and move back to the "PC" platform. Horrible you say. I bet you are aghast at this computer infidel for speaking such heresy. (FYI. I have been an Apple user for over 30 years. I actually owned a piece of junk called the Apple III and everything since then.)
Somebody has to tell this friend (Steve Jobs) turned nutcase that he needs to respect that there are standards in place and he does not and will not own them all. He needs to return to his roots and respect the software products that have "won" the tech war to-date and not take a stand at my expense. I didn't vote him into this position he is using his bully pulpit at my expense. I think he should now be called a "Dictator." Apple has become the object of its own infamous 1984 ad. (Compare this ad to Steve's last set of announcements. Look at the audience. Seems eerily familiar to the audience in the 1984 ad.)
But in the end he is a wimp. Steve Jobs is a coward. If he is going to take a stand to protect us from these inferior technologies then stop supporting them on Apple's computer line where there is competition. Go ahead Steve. I dare you. You won't do it because you have no grit. You have no balls. You have no principles. For you it has become all about money and power. You sold out.
Apple has great products and Steve Jobs is the inspiration behind all of them. But now he wants world domination though software control. Is Apple now the "computer for the rest of us" or the "computer Steve believes is best for us."
Come on Google Android. Come on Microsoft Windows 7. Put this nutcase in his place.
