Comment on Anon is smarter than a genius

• lordnikon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I will give him credit he turned computers and phones into fashion accessories. He is closer to Coco Chanel than any tech visionary. If you think about it his methods were closer to QAnon or flat earth people. You can sell some people anything if you can convince them they are better than other people if they follow you. I am still salty about him overshadowed Dennis Richie passing whole was a real tech visionary.

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  • UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Steve Jobs, Edison, Elon are all similar to me as they used smart people and took most of the credit.

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  • unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Steve Jobs a fascist? Like Vichy collaborator and Nazi spy Coco Chanel?

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    • taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Considering how much control Apple tries to exert over how you use your devices that does seem pretty close to the truth.

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      • unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Apple’s shitty software isn’t the problem. Literally everything online is collected. Why wouldn’t they? How much do you think this comment costs outside the fediverse? And fuck Apple, too you’re right

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• bisby@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  As I’ve gotten older, I’ve come to realize that convenience and simplicity are sometimes a feature. Just Works™ technology has a lot of value (assuming the thing does in fact just work).

  I don’t have any Apple products, but there are plenty of other categories in my life where I’ve paid more for a worse product just because I didn’t have to think at all about the one I got.

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  • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Just Works™ technology has a lot of value (assuming the thing does in fact just work).

    And that assumption is unfounded in Apple’s case. My parents have constant issues with their iPhones that you would never get on Android. But my mom is convinced that it’s easier to use than Android despite never having tried Android

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  • Snowclone@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I feel this way about cars. I still don’t even like automatic doors. Electrical systems in any car is a nightmare. Add 10k little doodads and features all drawing electrical power make so complicated a mess you’ll never sort it out and if you do you’ll probably realize that the automotive engineer set it up that way because there isn’t a better solution that’s obvious to anyone who knows how electrical systems are designed and work let alone a backyard mechanic.

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