Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 5th Aug 2009 19:37 UTC
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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Thom wants to be entertained. He's not trying to fill a void; he's saying Apple computer's aren't as fun as they used to be, which is true. They used to scream weird, but now they mean you probably have an iPhone.
I kind of have a thing for cast iron skillets. It really doesn't matter the brand, since they all work the same. They still have more character then my teflon coated wonder pan. In the case of the frying pan, it's more about finding a tool that works perfectly for you. If nothing else on the market works perfectly as you think it should, then yeah you'll develop an attachment to it.
It goes with out saying that Apple is in it for the money, but they used to be more interesting then they are now. It's like finding a weird little coffee shop with tons of character that slowly turns into a Starbucks. Sure Starbucks is hip, or whatever, but it's got a cold corporate edge. It doesn't make a dirty chai latte the same, the baristas look more wholesome and clean, and they play corporate radio rather then whatever the employees want to play. The coffee shop also used to be a good place to find out about interesting things, but now it's just about the corporate line.