tallest skil

How about a setting to FORCIBLY, ALWAYS LOAD THE DESKTOP SITE, Apple? The iPhone was created to dispense with the “baby Internet” as Steve called it. Instead we’ve seen mobile sites explode.

metrix said:

Is it just me or is that getting close to Zune Brown

Even better, it’s Surface Dried Blood.

claire1 said:

Why do they always brag about intel chips?

Somebody has to look bad when Intel falls by the wayside in a decade!

MplsP said:

how many of us need to worry about Cellebrite hacking our phones?

All of us. Do you not understand the importance of privacy?

But honestly, all of the previous is so far afield from the OP that it deserves its own… well, congressional hearings and executions for sedition against many countries. And as such doesn’t really belong here. Can we all agree to cut it? This time, that is? 

Let’s talk specifically about the cult of personality that was ascribed to Elizabeth Holmes. I say ascribed for a reason, because words have definitions. Her rise to fame was not, let’s say, “organic.” At the very least, it can be agreed that her rise to fame was in no way at all like that of Steve Jobs’, despite her claimed mirroring. The questions that arise, then, are probably something like:

• What drew her to emulate Jobs in practice and presentation?
• Was she genuinely successful in this emulation–not the results, but the simple act thereof?
• What drove the media frenzy to label her as “the next Steve Jobs”? Was it simply her self-proclaimed emulation? Did/why did they accept her claims without question?
• What about Theranos, as a company, would lend itself to emulation of Steve Jobs’ style?
• If nothing about the company would lend itself to said emulation, what caused the belief that the emulation would help? Additionally, if this is the case, why was the emulation not tempered by others’ input?
• Were there any conspiratorial motives, of any breadth, in any of the aforementioned parties (media, corporate, or individual)?

These are questions that matter to the thread topic. If we find out, through answers to these and others, that the root of the problem then falls back into “the media,” THEN we can revisit such concepts as cultural marxism, hegelian dialectic, and the definition of words themselves. But until then, let’s try to salvage the thread, because it touches on important topics in Silicon Valley that will be directly related to the next crash thereof. We’re talking Dot Com Bubble-level crash.

I was going to end with an analogy. Something along the lines of “Handwaving such-and-such attributes of the involved parties because the topics they involve are politically charged would be like handwaving [different, somewhat opposing attribute] of [insert other type of scandal in an unrelated field here] for the same reason.” I was going to, but all of the really good examples I can come up with are genuinely politically charged. And I both don’t want to deal in fantasies when we have so much fodder in the real world and don’t want to derail further.