re: #87 windsagio

HH, what Jobs gave the industry was putting form over function to an absurd degree and overcharging people who are loyal to you.

He was good for apple, but bad for the rest of the industry.

I love this bad for the rest of the industry meme. It’s not some campfire for everyone to gather around and sing kumbaya, it’s a market that he’s guided Apple from the bottom of to the top. Overcharging is a rather subjective assessment, especially coming from someone who hates the company. However every single advertising agency I’ve worked at kept the creative department on Mac because their time was worth something. Nobody seemed to care if account management or accounting went home early from a Windows virus infestation as long as the creatives kept generating value for the company.

It’s too bad that instead of Jobs Apple didn’t hire an idealist like Richard Stallman, with his impressive track record of picking things off his feet and eating them in public.