Everyone by now knows that Steve Jobs is dead. And I celebrated. I honestly celebrated the death of the man. Made myself a good dinner, watched Fifth Element, and slept good that night. Though I of course presented great fanfare on other forums I frequent and more or less digitally slapped many a person in the face on facebook who mourned his death calling him an artist and a hero of the underground.
No. He's not a hero of the underground. At best he created a hipster market. It's documented in several books within first hand experiences of Apple during the early days of how much a tyrannical monster he was. Sure. It's big business. It's what big business does. Further more, Steve Jobs wouldn't have two shoes to slip on his dead feet if it weren't for all the hard work that Wozniak put into that company with Jobs riding his coattails proclaiming all of the feats of conquest were of his own doing. Or magazines who would show great support for Steve, but never once give credit to his staff that had to work under hellish stress.
And then I could go on how Apple didn't actually create anything new. They re-worked the BlackBerry and called it an iPhone. They re-skinned the MP3 Player and called it an iPod, they DRM'd the living hell out of your music through their ingenious application of iTunes. Do you know how impossible it is to move music from one system, to another, that has simply been re-installed? Being that I've never used the iTunes system to purchase a single point of music my entire life, I'm not entirely sure how it works. Only that you can't copy the files from one system to another without breaking the laws of physics.
Regardless of all of this, the machines produced run on a modified (or uses quite a good chunk of) FreeBSD. So not only are all of these idiots who clamor around OSX paying for a free OS, but as stated before, they're over paying for machines that are declared 'apples' that have half the power of a fully functional and completely customizable from the hardware up 'PC'. Apples are fucking PCs. IT'S A COMPUTER. A PERSONAL COMPUTER. This falls in the same line of people who when you say "Hey man, nice pair of new shoes," and they respond with a quick, "No, these aren't shoes; they're Nike's" as if the product is some how completely and totally different from a less expensive version.
Fuck you, Steve Jobs. I'm quite glad he got the computer game up and running and produced a lot of heated competition, but he was no hero nor was he a real artist, and he was far and beyond 'for the underground' as I'm often told he is.
Rest in piece you needle necked pile of shit. Now I wait calmly for Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer to kick it.
