Star Apple: One Large Depressing Metallic Greyathon
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 5th Aug 2009 19:37 UTC
Apple Using his blue box, Steve Wozniak once called the Vatican (for free), and, imitating Henry Kissinger's voice, asked if he could speak with the pope. The pope turned out to be asleep. Wozniak pulled these pranks together with Steve Jobs, with whom he'd found Apple computer not long after. Oh, how the times have changed. How can a company with its roots in phreaking, pranks, and home-made computing end up the way it is today?
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Wackiness != Imperfection
by jack_perry on Thu 6th Aug 2009 00:40 UTC
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Then I realised something that became a universal truth for me: it takes imperfection to notice perfection. From then on, it became apparent to me that all the products that appeal to my sense of style and beauty, products that appeal to my emotions at some level or another, are all products that are imperfect. Products that are a little crazy, a little wacky, a little impractical.

Color me bondi blue, but I don't think that wackiness==imperfection. That isn't to say that I think Apple's products were ever perfect (even if I'm typing from one right now) but wackiness itself can lend to perfection.

And where's this "impractical" nonsense coming from? The old Mac's were quite practical in their day, no less than my old Amiga was practical.

Don't get me wrong; I get your main point: the fun has gone out of Apple, largely because they went all corporate on us.

Again.

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