Fraser Speirs (tip o’ the antlers to Marco Arment):
Think of the millions of hours of human effort spent on preventing and recovering from the problems caused by completely open computer systems. Think of the lengths that people have gone to in order to acquire skills that are orthogonal to their core interests and their job, just so they can get their job done.
In today’s Macworld piece (now up), the Macalope takes to task someone complaining the iPad doesn’t print. Speirs sums up the point he was trying to make nicely.
Link to your article?
Link is:
http://www.macworld.com/article/146012/2010/01/macalope_ipad.html
That Spiers weed is teh awes0me.
linky: http://www.macworld.com/article/146012/2010/01/macalope_ipad.html
You may want to know that Joe Wilcox, being the supreme hypocrite he is, wrote another piece entitled:
“Apple iPad was my Idea.”
http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/article/Apple-iPad-was-my-idea/1264787121
Yes, you read that title right. HIS IDEA. The one he bashed not two days ago. I have a feeling that he wrote that “12 Reasons I won’t buy an iPad” before it was actually released and then revised the thing once he more proof about some of things he just guessed would be in it.
Then he ran the piece without really giving the device any thought. Then he slept on it and woke up knowing he was wrong.
Wilcox closes that article with:
“My cranky, geek iPad sniping aside (in previous blog posts), Apple is rightly thinking about the mass market and how to offer a Mac across all price points and range of features. It’s brilliant marketing that looks at the totality of what Apple should offer customers rather than to simply respond to competing products, strategies or pricing. Apple’s marketing brilliance here is something I should praise, whether or not it was my idea. ;-)”
Not quite all on board (still thinks in terms of “sell the most!”), but walkin’ it back, fer sure.
(Also, Wilcox’s “my idea” is a riff on the latest Windows 7 ads, in case no one was aware of that.)
I read the Speirs article. It’s good. The great part of it is the literate, knowledgeable, considered opinions.
If this marks the beginning of a trend towards intelligent discourse on blog posts, count me in. I’d much rather make fun of what people say than their inability to say it.
Peace,
Rip