tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555664269648250473.post589747347905190703..comments2023-12-07T02:42:50.522-06:00Comments on Grit in the Gears: soubriquethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01151288534629885195noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555664269648250473.post-81551827265575580522011-10-09T21:57:34.368-05:002011-10-09T21:57:34.368-05:00While I don't deify Jobs, he did create a comp...While I don't deify Jobs, he did create a computer for computer phobics like me - one that is easy to start up, get typing, create a blog on...you know: easy peasy. I don't tinker with computers. I'm lost with all that a microsoft run computer can do. You left me all these wonderful toys on my Bill Gatesian PC, but I'm afraid to use them .... I can't remember how! Alls I'm saying is: Apple found a niche market and I'm part of it.<br /><br />xxxred dirt girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12939283533222061484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555664269648250473.post-50155079612970363862011-10-08T15:19:42.553-05:002011-10-08T15:19:42.553-05:00Adullamite: I'm with you on the adulation, but...Adullamite: I'm with you on the adulation, but he deserves tremendous respect for his achievements.<br />Gary: Yes, he was instrumental in bringing computers to the masses. He was ahead, when it came to word-processing (remember that term?), and graphics, ease of use, not needing to know how it was done, that's true. But he did it by locking nerds like himself out of the system. <br />What I don't like about his legacy is the locked down monopolism of apple. The haughty 'Don't mess with it, don't try to figure it out, just keep on buying stuff from us and us alone' attitude.<br />Whereas Microsoft, for all the odium heaped upon it, delivered a fully owner tinkerable device.<br />I have a friend who has only ever had macs, who's forever showing me what clever things his computer can do, then being surprised and a little offended when I tell him that the enemy can do the same thing too.<br />Bulletholes: Exactly!soubriquethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01151288534629885195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555664269648250473.post-77928817554916511652011-10-07T13:16:57.203-05:002011-10-07T13:16:57.203-05:00Here's one of my latest favorite sites...I sho...Here's one of my latest favorite sites...I should link to her...<br /><a href="http://thethoughtexperiment.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/thing-one-and-thing-two-an-analytical-epitaph-for-a-man-forced-to-give-in-to-the-one-thing-in-life-he-couldnt-browbeat-in-to-doing-his-will/" rel="nofollow">click here</a>bulletholeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13681107556161747976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555664269648250473.post-46093456663897234482011-10-07T06:37:06.409-05:002011-10-07T06:37:06.409-05:00Jobs definately made technology better for everybo...Jobs definately made technology better for everybody. I heard an interview with him, talking about early computers, that he wanted them and their processes to be easy for all of us to use, with beautiful images, fonts etc. Early computer users were science types, people who scoffed at those ideas, but for the rest of us, it was the right idea, and led Bill Gates to copy Job's ideas. Bill Gates is also a good guy, for different reasons. I don't see any reason to get uptight over either of them, but they are the 2 Henry Fords of our day, just not anti-semitic fascists :)Gary's third pottery bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13517401528128108791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555664269648250473.post-28674466437956830802011-10-07T03:27:02.004-05:002011-10-07T03:27:02.004-05:00I confess to being left out here. Why such acclam...I confess to being left out here. Why such acclamation for Jobs? An inventor etc but why adulation?<br />People without God look for one to follow I suppose.Adullamitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15537659871829290071noreply@blogger.com