Ahh, Steve Job's vision has finally materialized. Writing sex offenders list on the iPad.
Steve Jobs 1955 -2011 Page 4
Quote: Will Cam @ October 8 2011, 6:48 PM BSTI have a mate in the Plod who has got me the proof.
At least I'm not the most wanted sex offender then...but quite how this rumour started in the Steve Jobs thread I don't know.
Looks like all this talk of sex offenders is exaggerated if there only three people on the register. And two of those are dead.
Bad news Tuumble, you're public enemy number one.
Quote: Badge @ October 8 2011, 8:14 PM BSTLooks like all this talk of sex offenders is exaggerated if there only three people on the register. And two of those are dead.
Bad news Tuumble, you're public enemy number one.
Time for me to go into hiding methinks...bad news as I've been preparing a playlist for my forthcoming radio show this evening (true).
Anyway, I think I've hijacked this thread enough [*runs away]
Quote: Godot Taxis @ October 8 2011, 12:22 PM BSTThat's because you're ignorant, Bill. But enlightenment is just a click away.
Got fonts on your computer? That was Jobs' idea. Might seem obvious now but it was Jobs who thought of it and introduced it. The Mac more or less started the desktop publishing revolution on it's own. At the time of the Mac's introduction the PC could not display graphics.
Jobs' death is hugely important because Apple has been driving innovation in the computer industry for twenty years and for the last ten years Jobs has been Apple.
If you use a PC most things on it appeared on a Mac first or are watered-down Mac concepts. Even the modern laptop design with the keyboard against the screen is an Apple innovation. PC laptops used to put the keyboard on the edge of the machine like a typewriter.
I have never once wondered how the idea of fonts came about. Now that you have told me I feel I should weep at nothing, Fonts are not a revolution anyway.
I have never cared for the origins of the mac, or computers. Frankly somehow, I'm not at all sure how (sarcasm), but we could have coped without Jobs and his ideas dressed up as "innovations".
So basically Mr Taxi, kindly take your face away from me, as it was merely my opinion. None of those things are a revolution, they are an addition at best.
Quote: Bill Jaguar @ October 8 2011, 8:45 PM BSTI have never once wondered how the idea of fonts came about. Now that you have told me I feel I should weep at nothing, Fonts are not a revolution anyway.
I have never cared for the origins of the mac, or computers. Frankly somehow, I'm not at all sure how (sarcasm), but we could have coped without Jobs and his ideas dressed up as "innovations".
So basically Mr Taxi, kindly take your face away from me, as it was merely my opinion. None of those things are a revolution, they are an addition at best.
Whatever you think, Apple has revolutionised the way we spend our free time (says he, unable to put his iPad down 
).
Dare I say it not in a good way? (He says with no Apple products what so ever.)
Not even sauce or pie? 
For me, one of the more interesting things about Apple (computers) was the company's protracted legal battles with the Beatles' Apple Corps. Under early deals, Apple Corps could not produce computers (duh) and Jobs's Apple could never release any music. Thus the development of Apple PCs suffered, until the iPod came along and Apple paid big, big money for the Beatles' right to the Apple trademark. Or something like that. There's quite a bit about it in a biography of Paul McCartney, who glosses over the lawsuits and makes it seem as if Apple computers happily forked over money to be able to release music under the name Apple.
That Beatles spat was amusing yes. Two huge egos going head to head and refusing to budge. I thought the US Apple's stance was very arrogant indeed, and jarred with their trendy, cool image. In trying to steal the trademark of the uber popular Beatles they risked blowing everything, including their consumer friendly image, which is just a complete front.
I'm not impressed by ultra slick corporations like Apple, and so called corporate superstars like Jobs and Branson make me puke. It's just highly manipulative marketing, using all sorts of new age bullsh*t to make out their organistion is some new saviour of mankind, instead of highly lucrative businesses. They have a nasty tinge of cultism about them.
Alternatively Kipper you could just call them all "ba$*ds".
I'm not a fan of the 'modern' world. I know its hippogriffocal rubbish coming from a nobody living as part it, but the discontent is bourne from some (I won't say all) peoples' commonly held belief that we, the modern society, are sophisticated. It is in my eyes utter rubbish, as I would have thought that the sophistication of a culture comes not from the culture itself but from the people within. Given that a great deal, in Britain at least, of people are in prison (I read that we now have the highest prison population in Europe) and many more all look forward to getting pissed at the weekend, we are not sophisticated at all. That is my thought on the matter and all this talk on Jobs revolutionising our lives in some manner, to me, anyway is total twaddle. Changing yes, revolutionising Lord no.
Sorry Leevil no Apple sauce or pie here. If you ever visit then something shall be done about that.
Quote: Will Cam @ October 8 2011, 6:48 PM BSTI have a mate in the Plod who has got me the proof.
(didn't want to reproduce the list again)
Oh, he was great guy, really good businessman....
Quote: Godot Taxis @ October 8 2011, 12:04 PM BSTI thought you were a f**king journalist.
Yup. Apple never returned one of my calls in a decade.
Quote: DaButt @ October 8 2011, 1:45 PM BSThttp://m.gawker.com/5847344/what-everyone-is-too-polite-to-say-about-steve-jobs
Says a lot.
Apple is a closed shop, antithetical to everything that has contributed to the success of the internet to date.
It's a barrier to innovation nowadays.
Fortunately, companies are beginning to work around it.
Recent example:
I feel sorry for the poor bastard who took over from Jobs. When consumers get over the oh-look-at-the-shiny-shiny and start circumventing Apple's bullshit, and its bottom line takes the hit, the new guy is going to be the first against the wall.