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Re: Hey Mike, I told you so (Scripting News)

yet another steve — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 19:16:28 -0000

I'm torn. Because I can create experiences with native development not possible with just internet. And the iphone/ipod touch is a beautiful platform, technically.

But so far it is just be a tease... like looking through the glass at the beautiful people in an upscale restaurant. I can see it and taste it and dream it. But my actual app? App review purgatory. A system of control that would make a Soviet bureaucrat proud.

Still torn because... it was the best platform for what I built... and what I built isn't possible without native code (although there are a few other platforms that allow native code... like, say, Windows, Mac.)

It's hard to ignore what would be possible if Apple limited it's rejections to actual harm to the device or the network. If wishes were horses...

And to the happy iphone users that think Dave is just a whiny insider: Guys like Dave invent the future. Your iphone may be the future today, but it won't be tomorrow if Apple chases them away. We already have our first killer mobile app (Google Voice) BANNED from the iphone. That doesn't even begin to count all the ideas that will never be started. Innovation isn't going to happen when the first question is "But will apple approve?"

And oh the irony: Think of the 1984 commercial. It sickens me to realize that Apple.... APPLE... is becoming big brother. Banning apps that "duplicate existing functionality." Because there is only one right way to do something.... It's more depressing than the economy. For years Apple kept IBM and MS honest. Now who will throw the hammer and keep Apple honest?

Re: The crazy ones (Scripting News)

yet another steve — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 19:18:05 -0000

Timely reminder. Is there any way to save Apple's soul?

Re: Why Apple might be better off without Steve

yet another steve — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:29:09 -0000

I think I disagree with your premise because the idea that SJ is soooo important as the public persona is inside baseball. Many if not most of the kids with ipods don't even know who Steve Jobs is. They know what an iPhone is (and they've been rediscovering the mac). The products and the marketing are the image. Not SJ.

It is hard to imagine who could have had the vision, and decisiveness to turn the company around. But SJ has been there a long time, the values are ingrained, and they'll continue. Moreover SJ's uncompromising attitude is a mixed blessing--he's not always right you know.

On net, there will be pluses and minuses. On balance I think losing SJ will be a negative for Apple, but not a huge one. The company he rebuilt remains.

Mainly, I just want the guy to be well because he's a human being and the planet is a more interesting place with him around.

Re: Beastmaster gets all passive-aggressive on my ass

yet another steve — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:17:55 -0000

It scares me to find that the only voice accurate relating history as i remember it and used it is a dead man notorious for fabricating his own history (and being outed for this by his own tapes).

But yeah, Woz had rolled his own Integer BASIC (it even used '>' as a prompt...) that was standard in the original Apple ][. He had trouble adding floating point and so Applesoft was purchased from MS. (Applesoft used ']' as its prompt.)

And there was a religious war at the time as the "old school" Ap ][ programmers preferred Integer basic as it was faster. And they HATED the Apple ][+, whose principal feature was built in Applesoft instead of Integer (they called it the "Apple ][ minus").

But Applesoft had a number of features integer basic (not just floating point) and prevailed.

Not that I remember or anything.

Re: Much love, iJustine and other girl who is not iJustine

yet another steve — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 06:49:48 -0000

I too long for the good old days when tech girls (okay at least the yelptards) made out with each other to get attention.

::sigh::

Whatever happened to the yelptards anyway?

Re: Why Hillary must be stopped

yet another steve — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:53:35 -0000

Clinstones
Meet the Clinstones
They're the modern Arkansas fam-i-leee
From the town of Little Rock
They should just be a page in history.

Someday, maybe Bill will win the fight
Meanwhile he likes staying out all night

When you're with the Clinstones...

Re: Hillary uses the N word

yet another steve — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 07:07:38 -0000

Oh you guys are so distracted by the politics that you are missing the point of this blog. FS loves to get commentards (and that's what many of you are) hot and bothered by making obvious mistakes. When the mistakes are geographical, the regular readers just sit back and wait for someone to get offended that a country has been placed on the wrong continent.

In this case, you are missing the joke right in front of your face... now exactly what is the 'N' word?

Any of you give any thought to the fact that you're arguing with... satire?

Re: It's official: FSJ demographic skews older, more cynical

yet another steve — Sat, 31 May 2008 01:12:57 -0000

He isn't wealthy yet. He only thinks he is.
Valuations can deflate as fast as they inflate.
Until you are liquid it ain't real.

Re: It's official: FSJ demographic skews older, more cynical

yet another steve — Sat, 31 May 2008 01:14:32 -0000

Now the commentards are counting digits.

=)

Re: Gary Krakow of MSNBC says we need to license BlackBerry or Windows Mobile

yet another steve — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:26:43 -0000

Wrong in so many ways... I want to call it EXACTLY wrong.
Even the premise is wrong... Apple is making near oil company profits thinking about consumers not corporations (and letting those consumers sell the products to the corporations they work for.)

Apple is making billions in what is supposed to be a low margin commodity business (PCs) by being a complete, turnkey ALTERNATIVE to Windows.

Actually, what Apple needs to do to crack the corporate market is exactly what I just heard rumored... a OS X 10.6 that is simply focused on stability and performance.... not features. If this is true, it is once again shear genius. Because these are the boring things that make organizations and IT departments less or more productive. And MS, in its never-ending mac envy, has absolutely lost sight of this.

Re: Huh?

yet another steve — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:04:00 -0000

The part I could translate was:
"be very afraid of using google apps."

Personally, I will keep my behavioral data to myself.
And begin thinking of Google as dangerous and MS as merely annoying.

Re: Yo -- I'm going into space, bitch

yet another steve — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:32:35 -0000

It would be "chief yahoo!" except you're Iulia and Nataha's bitches too.

I think the real reason you didn't sell is that it would have taken you a 100 year process to figure out what to do with all the money.

Re: At Yahoo we're making the resignation process easier and more efficient

yet another steve — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:17:09 -0000

Some days I just love the intarweb.
Today is one of them.

Of course, everyone knows you send the letter to Sue not Jerry.

Re: Zuckerberg seeks a patent on privacy software

yet another steve — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:47:43 -0000

Now let's be fair to Jerry... when you have hundred of unrelated initiatives to deal with, this stuff takes tim.

Not fair comparing them to a simple business... like one that has just search and ads, or one that has computers and devices that share most of the same OS.

And back then he had yahoo music to worry about.

Re: Proof that God exists and has a sense of humor

yet another steve — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 04:53:45 -0000

If anything screams "It's over!" more than "real dan"... I can't think of what it would be.

Sadness...

Re: Proof that God exists and has a sense of humor

yet another steve — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 01:28:15 -0000

Bozo may have brought joy to millions... but FS brought joy to ME. NEVER thought it got unfunny... NEVER.

rip fake steve.

Re: This site inspired me

yet another steve — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:51:53 -0000

My favorite inspiration site was called "The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs".

Then Steve left us without explanation.

::sadness::

Re: I am so friggin high it's not funny

yet another steve — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:29:47 -0000

I feel like Yoko just broke up the Beatles all over again.

I will be less sad when RSJ leaves Apple (though I don't expect that nearly as soon as you do.)

Re: I am so friggin high it's not funny

yet another steve — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:33:20 -0000

Just realized I could be misinterpreted.. that wasn't a slight on SJ. I will be quite sad and a little concern when RSJ leaves--but he doesn't bring the daily job and laughter and occasional gut splitting that this blog did. It's been the funniest (in a geekily satisfying way) thing I've ever read in my life.

Not replaceable. Thus I can only mourn.

Re: I am so friggin high it's not funny

yet another steve — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:34:14 -0000

Just realized I could be misinterpreted.. that wasn't a slight on SJ. I will be quite sad and a little concern when RSJ leaves--but he doesn't bring the daily joy and laughter and occasional gut splitting that this blog did. It's been the funniest (in a geekily satisfying way) thing I've ever read in my life.

Not replaceable. Thus I can only mourn.

Re: Attention: Fake Steve is now Real Dan

yet another steve — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 04:24:40 -0000

Just thought I'd note that it is 2009 now.

Good news Dan.

SJ survived longer as CEO at Apple than you did as... whatever.

Consider the possibility that just maybe Apple was telling the truth.

You really should go back to satire.

Re: What if…

yet another steve — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 05:10:12 -0000

It's EXACTLY what they said it was.
It's a freaking phone.
It is not a computer.
Like your car, which is also not a computer.

I've really had it with all this BS.
Apple delivered EXACTLY what they said they would. EXACTLY. They could not have been any clearer.

It's not an evil conspiracy. It's a cellphone.

Apple makes wonderful computers that run Unix and Windows and Mac OS and thus just about any application ever created on this planet.

The mac is not a phone. The iphone is not a computer. Doh!

The value proposition of the phone was that it would be SIMPLE. Simple means automatically updated/managed by Apple. How did you read into this that it was a computer? And what part of "exclusive to AT&T; 2 year contract required" did you not understand?

And Apple didn't brick your phone YOU did. The cell network didn't reach out and lock up your phone. You ignored EVERYTHING the company told you at every step of the way bout what the product was and was not and how it worked and then whine all over the internet because my f'ing God it is exactly what they said it would be.

Now yes it is your phone and no one stops you from taking it apart and doing things it wasn't intended to do. Happy hobby science project. You can also put it in a blender.

Personally I wanted the iPhone to have a real SDK/API. Then I realized I cared little about the phone, I just want a programmable pocket sized touchscreen MacOS X based computer.

Apple made it crystal clear that this was not such a device. They could not have been any clearer. I didn't buy one. I love Apple products. I do not have Stockholm syndrome. Apple delivers what they promise. When it's what I want, I buy.

I can't help think of Fake Steve talking about how stupid people weren't spozed to get iphones. He was right. And the most stupid are not the celebs who got it because it looked cool, it's the people who were too arrogant or illiterate to read/comprehend the simple message of what it was.

My analogy would be something about wanting a computer, so you buy a pickup truck, hack the dashboard to be the display and expect the dealer to fix it without making the speedometer back into a speedmeter.

IT'S A FREAKING PHONE.
Jebus...

Re: Toni Sacconaghi Hit Job on Apple’s iPhone

yet another steve — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:09:39 -0000

Honestly, guys like Toni are our friends. They help us buy low.
Earnings and results will help us sell high.

Re: Apple Investors, Screws are Tightening

yet another steve — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:52:37 -0000

I have a different (decidedly less technical or professional) take. A company this well positioned (and it is) in a down market is an opportunity to buy low with impunity when it pulls back. The question is how low, and admittedly, I've been floundering on that. But the best opportunity for profit is when the stock and the company are headed in opposite directions, all the better if the reason for the divergence is external to the company. Buy lower, buy slowly.

The market is typically full of weak companies going down and strong companies going up. Weak company going up (especially if you're already long so you don't have the risks of shorting) and strong company going down are much easier calls.

158 is a great price if you got in at 120.. or 130 or even 140... which you could have done with patience just months ago.

Ironically, in 1987, the day after the crash, the stock I was dying to buy was a very oversold AAPL (which was turning around at the time as a company--though NOTHING that can compare to its position today).

Keep some powder dry, and if the market crashes, what better stock to buy at fire sale prices?

Re: Apple Leading the Way to a Total Tech Breakdown

yet another steve — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 01:05:56 -0000

I disagree with the link to the "Let's Rock" event. Apples businesses have been firing on all cylinders and they did just what they should with the ipod line.

The problem is that the current business fundamentals don't matter.

The macro technical environment dwarfs all.

If Apple continues to outperform the overall economy (likely as its market share trends are pretty solid), then we'll all be presented with a fantasic buying opportunity.

Meanwhile this is just a dramatic reminder that you are trading with other investors... not with the company's customers. A market trend in the exact opposite direction as a company trend can produce a tremendous buying opportunity. Hopefully you'll be able to tell us when we're there.

Re: Apple Investors are Shorts to Blame for this Mess?

yet another steve — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 01:16:21 -0000

Naked shorting IS wrong (far too dilutive), but certainly not short selling per se.
The problem last week was a financial panic. Closest culprit on your list is The Banks. Bad Lending + Leverage == current situation.
For a company like AAPL, with circa $25/share in the bank and no debt... a market panic is an opportunity to go long. I did so at $128. A nice little addition to my retirement account.
You make a profit by selling higher than you bought at. Unless you're margined, it matters a whit what the price does in between. If you care what a stock does next month or next quarter, you are not an investor.
If short sellers were driving down AAPL last week (panicked sellers and a buyers' strike is more likely), they did a service--shorting a stock of a company printing money with around 20% of its value in cash. And someday they have to cover.

Companies with the cash and productivity and flexibility of Apple can survive depressions.

Re: Apple Investors are Dead, Long Live Investors

yet another steve — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:46:21 -0000

Apple's entire business--its enterprise value--is now $63/share. This in the wake of what looks like the most significant successful product launch in its history. And the beauty of this new product? Carriers pay most of the cost.

Whatever the short term hiccups, it is the most obvious fundamental opportunity I've seen in my lifetime.

It's not just the companies ridiculously stellar balance sheet. It is also the state of its franchises.

It's the oppposite of the dotcom era--the downware momentum is that intense. And just like the dotcom era, we know how this story will end, we just don't know how far the stock price can go in the meantime.

There is just an amazing lack of long term business risk here. In a growth story? Cheap! I guess this is what a REAL Bear is like.

Re: Trading Apple Post Steve Jobs

yet another steve — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:27:38 -0000

So no significance that Apple did NOT set a new low (during regular hours when there's liquidity) on the SJ news?

Re: Sci-Fi Hi-Fi: Weblog: Yes, it’s true that a team at Google couldn’t...

yet another steve — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 23:44:57 -0000

Your comparison is interesting because they are both large, world class, market leading <insert superlatives here> organizations. With evolutionary paths that lead them with very different DNA.

And I read this on a weekend when I've just finally taken the plunge and bought an iPhone. And honestly, there is some emotional appeal in it beyond its capabilities that I can't explain... I am surprised by how wonderful it "feels"... and this after having used an iPod touch for some time.

Re: Microsoft vs. Apple advertising spending: The real numbers to watch

yet another steve — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:35:00 -0000

This is all very silly. MS and Apple are in very different businesses, financially speaking. Hardware economics are very different from software economics.

Business marketing is very different than consumer marketing as well.

The numbers can be compared, because they're all in dollars. But comparisons are hardly meaningful. Which, of course, means anyone can spin them to mean anything.

Re: Ballmer: 'Tide has really turned' against Apple in computer market

yet another steve — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 15:33:00 -0000

Flame wars aside....

Is there a market created in the last decade... or say during Balmer's reign... where Apple and MS compete and Apple is not kicking MS' you-know-what?

Balmer's epic fail is the smartphone market. Where his natural customers are addicted to Crackberries. And Apple proved it was possible to enter and gain share.

It's even more epic than Vista failing to gain adoption with--once again--MS' most loyal entrenched customers (enterprises). While obsessing over Apple and Google (always chasing them in new markets), he screwed the pooch with his most important business. Like only a ham-handed monopoly could.