Except he’s not quitting.

Most noteworthy has been media’s panic-mongering. Look out for media, who’s
own “management style” is far more ruthless than Jobs’ ever was. There’s a poll
at the WSJ: Is this the end of (the world); is it no big deal; or, will it be good
for Apple?

I chose the last one. Not least because it’s been Cook who’s been leading the
company more than Jobs, possibly the most overrated brain in history. Albeit,
the IPod was a pretty good idea, though I still don’t own one. The phone and
pad were obvious ideas anyone might have thought up, but which not anyone
had the financial backing to manufacture. Speaking of manufacturing…it’s
necessary once again to recall who does that part. And those who do do that
part couldn’t buy an IPad with a year’s income.

But what’s different about that? One can’t use or wear anything that wasn’t—at
some point along the line—partly made by someone bound in one or another set of chains. By the way, if Jobs isn’t interested in the money, see my hand
sticking up in the air here, Steve? I’d even share it. Or maybe you could divvy it
up so as to compensate all those who’ve lost money as a result of your
announcement.

Oddly, no one’s ever trusted Steve Jobs, “visionary” or not, as Apple stock is up
only 400% since 2009, which is nothing next to Netflix, which is up 1,000%.
Jobs is a celeb more than a visionary, luckily for Apple. Same as Gates across
the street at the other place to go for stuff that doesn’t work half the time.

Difference is that everything Apple costs twice as much, down to and including
a connector/adaptor. As for style, just warmed over industrial with emphasis on
round instead of square. And fewer buttons, which makes for more difficult
operation.

I finally broke down and bought a Mac after years of fury I felt toward Microsoft.
I’ve discovered that all I’ve really replaced is the target of the fury. Some days I
almost recall Microsoft with fondness. (I can and do run Windows on the Mac,
since Intel-based. Which is lucky given that Safari is bar none the worst browser
ever. No, Mozilla isn’t much better, while Google grows ever more annoying.)

One thing is certain, Microsoft is more adult. Jobs does have a knack for
tapping the adolescent market. But while the code is open source, that’s not
helped with third-party software, a fair amount of which will hardly run on OS
X. As for techs called, “geniuses,” not exactly. Actually, not remotely. One of
them caused me to make such a mess of my system, I had to fix wipe it and redo the whole set-up—the way I wanted it. I
never called again, plus my 90 days had run out and I think it was $90 or something
to call up a genius after that. (I should call and ask if they’d like to hire
someone who knows how to partition a hard drive—HFS, FAT32 and NTFS all on the same drive—since they obviously don’t
have such a person.)

Would it have killed them to put in a lousy light indicating whether or not my
CD Rom is working? Right, that would have interfered with the design. Sorry. At
least the tower comes with built-in handles, which might be actual genius.

Media’s back at it: “OH NO, NOW WHAT?” But then big media is adolescent, so maybe that
makes some kinda twisted sense. I feel more toward Jobs like I was starting
to feel toward Brett Favre: ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, MOVE ON ALREADY!

Except he’s not quitting.

Which is no problem for media that’s never let facts get in the way of
opportunity to manufacture panic.

What if Cook turns out to be Aaron Rodgers? How about that, huh? Apple could then trade Jobs to Microsoft, perhaps for a 3rd round draft choice or something.

Not to be mean. Okay, precisely to be mean, since given the grief these “genius” “visionaries” have caused me over three decades they should be paying me to use their visions and calling me daily just to ask how I’m doin’ and can they help me today?