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As Apple hypes original content, Disney & Google sever ties with popular YouTube star PewD...
For those defending the incident with the "Death to all Jews" sign as "just over the top" and "not to be taken seriously," um ... that attitude could get YOU fired, so maybe you should spend a little time with a Holocaust survivor (while there are still some left) and get a little perspective. But hey, sure, maybe that one time it was just a little tasteless and Disney et al are over-reacting. OH WAIT: from the article -- "Since August last year he has in fact posted nine videos using Nazi or anti-Semitic references in jokes." Um, no. This was not a one-time thing, and his apology rings of a man who just lost a paycheque. Repeated use of Nazi or anti-Semitic references in jokes that you laugh at means you are at best a complete douche; at worst, you find this funny because you are genuinely anti-Semitic. I'm reminded as always of the song by They Might Be Giants, "Your Racist Friend."
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Peter Thiel says 'age of Apple' at its end
Assuming you mean the iMac, the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad, that's 1998, 2001, 2007, and 2010 -- 12 years. So you're already exaggerating ...bdkennedy said:You can be emotional about how Apple used to be, but the waiting is over. Every year Tim Cook says, "We have great products in the pipeline." That's executive talk.Under Steve Jobs, there were 4 revolutionary products in 10 years. Under Tim Cook, there have been none.Tim took over running the day-to-day at Apple a couple of years before Steve died, so credit for the iPad actually goes mostly to Tim (though it was born of ideas developed during the iPhone development period, so we'll give Steve half-credit). And Tim was COO in 2007, so he should also get a lot of credit for the iPhone (along with more people than just Jobs) -- the vision was not his, but his contribution of actually getting the thing to market and manufactured to the scale of demand should not be underestimated as you have done. He saved Apple literally billions of dollars by predicting the rise of flash storage technology and investing heavily in it far ahead of when it became mainstream, and played a very large role in making them the most profitable company the world has ever seen.So, since Tim has been in charge, we've had a revolution in smartphone cameras, lead by the iPhone, that has disabled all but the pro-end camera industry; a revolution in payment technology spearheaded by Apple; a revolution in book publishing (spearheaded by Amazon, but with strong contributions by Apple); a revolution in the video industry spearheaded by Apple; a revolution in software delivery spearheaded by Apple; a revolution in voice assistants spearheaded by Apple; and a revolution in fitness and medical technology spearheaded by Apple. And that's not a complete list, because some of Apple's most remarkable advances are much less "explosive" than the iPhone -- they are more like flowers blooming than bombs sometimes, but no less remarkable for the slower pace of maturation.
These might not be revolutionary to you because they are not your interests, but they have still affected huge change in our society over a relatively short period of time -- just the five years that Tim has been running the place. Did I mention that Apple went from being a niche company to being the most influential and valuable company in the entire world? Is that alone not revolutionary enough for you?From where I'm sitting, Tim Cook and his team at Apple make Steve Jobs and his team look slothful. The current administration has put a larger number of "dents in the universe" in just five years than Jobs did in 12. You can argue they might be (slightly) smaller dents, if you want, that's up for discussion (and some of them are still maturing, like Apple Pay), but to say Apple has done nothing revolutionary since Steve died is at best cherry-picking, and really rather disingenuous.Your specious arguments remind me of a saying about Fred Astaire: he was brilliant and deserved the praise he got, but Ginger Rogers did everything he did, and backwards, and in heels, and never got anywhere near as much credit.
