spice-boy

GeorgeBMac said:

spice-boy said:

Sorkin's movie was a great movie but can be enjoyed best when you leave your fantasy of who Jobs was at the door. A portrait is just that, an artist's interpretation of a real person and can be flattering to the subject or not. Everyone that reads AI has a defined option of Jobs and if we all combined those opinion it still would not be an accurate depiction of the person Jobs was. However Sorkin made a very well crafted movie about Apple's history and one of the men that founded it. 

Yeh, it was a well done movie.   But it's depiction of Jobs did not not jive with any actual evidence I have seen. 

If you didn't know Jobs personally or work at Apple during that years everything you consider evidence is hearsay. I avoid biographies in general because they are second hand information at best, I went to see this one because who was in it and who directed it. A complex character as Jobs was from all accounts could never be summed up in a couple of hours.

Sorkin's movie was a great movie but can be enjoyed best when you leave your fantasy of who Jobs was at the door. A portrait is just that, an artist's interpretation of a real person and can be flattering to the subject or not. Everyone that reads AI has a defined option of Jobs and if we all combined those opinion it still would not be an accurate depiction of the person Jobs was. However Sorkin made a very well crafted movie about Apple's history and one of the men that founded it. 

I'm waiting for Apple to do what once the Feds should have done already and break Apple Inc up into pieces. Each piece would perform and innovate the way Apple did before it became a titan. This is a classic case of a corporation which has extended itself too far under the same management and the cracks are showing. The iPhone has one competitor and fortunately for Apple Samsung does not have the foothold it probably should have in the US. I'm pretty sure most people reading this remember a time when Apple was thrilling to watch. Their products wowed us. The iPhone has become a product like the original iMac, stuck in a form factor for years on end and relying on new colors to distinguish the year's model from the last. Most of what Apple launches today is highly flawed and desperate to repeat another companies lead in that market. If it were not for it's "monopoly" iOS/iPhone products and services like Apple Music, Apple TV+ would have died on the vine. Speaking of vines, if you know anything about plants you know that pruning now and then keeps the plant healthy and producing a new crop. Apple it's time to prune back and make something sweet again. 

lukas_canji said:

mdriftmeyer said:

sflocal said:

I admire what Musk does.  He's a rockstar in my book... but whatever Musk.  Maybe it's "fresh blood" engineers that are breaking the software?  Maybe it's not iOS that was buggy, but maybe identified a problem with Musk's email system?  Lot's of assumptions being made here.

Fresh blood is necessary in every industry.  Experience, especially of those that have been in the industry a while is even more preferred as far as I'm concerned. 

He's an overrated ass hat.

He is the most important entrepreneur since Edison.

No, just the loudest.

dewme said:

. Or maybe buy a bunch of software and people through an acquisition.        

Just like Apple acquired Next.