[LINK] Jobs not all bad

[Fred Pilcher]

On 10/08/2011 07:20 PM, Stephen Wilson wrote:
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> On 8/10/2011 4:00 PM, Fred Pilcher wrote:
>>   On 10/08/2011 03:16 PM, Stephen Wilson wrote:
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>>> And the issues Fred, the issues?
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>>   With pleasure:
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>>   "Fred himself adopts an ironically cultish tone."
>>
>>   I'd need a little more indication of what you mean before I can
>>   respond to "cultish". How so?
>
> What strikes me as cultish is the knowing superiority with which you
> dismiss all of Apple's innovation as mere 'marketing'.  It's like the
> arbitrary arguments between theoretical and experimental physicists on
> "the Big Bang Theory".  Except that's satirical.
>
> A cynica says there's nothing new under the sun. One person's innovation
> is another's marketing.  If Jobs only ever repackaged existing
> technologies then by the same token, nothing much has changed in
> hardware since Babbage, and software has stood still Lovelace.

I understood this conversation was offline, though I have no problems 
making it public.

Since you've chosen to take this online, though, I'd be grateful if 
you'd quote the full text of my e-mail to you so that our Link friends 
can see the context.

> The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about,
> eh purists?

Notwithstanding Bernard's observation, "knowing superiority" and the 
above are getting pretty close to ad hominem, Steve. Why not just call 
me a big poopyhead and be done with it?

Fred