There was also another phrase around "antenna-gate" (one of my favourite phrases) and that was "You're using it wrong."Inspector Sands wrote:http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/06/opini ... uture.html? is an interesting opinion piece about Jobs and Apple, especially the bits about 1984.
I know it's still very soon after his death but those eulogising him need to remember that he was just a very successful businessman. His main aim was to make money out of his customers, and squeezed them for every penny. Apple could make their phones in the US in a factory with better labour laws, give jobs to their fellow countrymen, pay some tax to an indebted government and help lower the China/US trade gap (which it contributes to quite significantly apparently). Apparently it could do all that and still make a healthy overhead on each unit sold.
When the iPhone 4 aerial debacle was unfurling there was a phrase being used a lot online to disillusioned Apple fans.... 'remember, Steve Jobs is not your friend, Apple is not your friend'
It all came after Steve Jobs replied to a customer who had emailed him and simply had this to say...
http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/appl ... olding-th/
