Re:Post-Jobs Apple 'has nobody to say no'
by dasil003 on Sunday March 25, 2012 @01:15PM
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Something rubs me the wrong way about this being sensationalized like this. Okay so one disgruntled insider thinks their latest design is shit and Jobs wouldn't have let it through. Fine. He's entitled to his opinion.
But the media is just chomping at the bit for any kind of Apple-is-slipping story so they can pin it on Jobs' death. But the reality is that most of the people who made Apple's recent products great are still there, and so is Steve's vision to a great extent. Also, it's not as if Jobs was infallible in his design sense. He let abominations like the hockey puck mouse out the door, and who knows what sides he fell on in all the internal design debates over the years. The mythologizing of Jobs is clouding people's judgement about Apple's performance and it's only gonna get worse.
But the media is just chomping at the bit for any kind of Apple-is-slipping story so they can pin it on Jobs' death. But the reality is that most of the people who made Apple's recent products great are still there, and so is Steve's vision to a great extent. Also, it's not as if Jobs was infallible in his design sense. He let abominations like the hockey puck mouse out the door, and who knows what sides he fell on in all the internal design debates over the years. The mythologizing of Jobs is clouding people's judgement about Apple's performance and it's only gonna get worse.