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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'

iSon wrote:

Inspector Sands wrote: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'

There was also another phrase around "antenna-gate" (one of my favourite phrases) and that was "You're using it wrong."

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/

Gavin Scott wrote:Interesting piece on the Beeb today about Jobs vowing to "destroy Android even if it costs every penny".

Yowser. You can see why they built up 40 billion dollars in the bank.

Gavin Scott wrote:Your facts turn me on.