The Hate

[tilton]

Every time there's any sort of big news about Apple, I can count on a wave of anti-Apple sentiment from certain parts of my social networks. I've been thinking a lot about that in the wake of the Steve Jobs news. What drives it? What makes people so angry

Comments

[areitu]

I agree completely. My mom figured out how to make a phone call on an iPhone in about 20 minutes and she still hasn't mastered the digital cable TV remote. My roommate pointed out to me that my entire computing experience has been shaped in some way by Steve Jobs, because I grew up using a home computer in the 90s that had Windows 3.1 on it. Everyone who uses a GUI and a mouse, an MP3 player or a smartphone is a product
of Jobs's influence.
Guys like this:
http://androidactivist.org/opinion/steve-jobs-is-like-thomas-edison-an-idea-and-credit-thief-who-was-more-p-t-barnum-than-an-innovator/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+androidactivist%2Fxzzg+%28AndroidActivist%29&utm_content=FaceBook

make me angry because they're attacking steve jobs as a person because he's the face of Apple.

[wolfstoy]

I think you're overselling Apple here. I starting using a mouse and GUI the first time with my Atari 1040ST. I didn't have any previous experience with those devices. The Atari used a system called GEM destkop which they developed based loosly on GDI's version. They weren't ever sued by Apple since their development was different.

As for MP3 players, I used them before the iPod. Before they even existed I had a laptop mounted in my truck to play MP3's and used a Palm 3 as an interface to control it.

As for the smart phone, they were very late to the game. I'd been multitasking with GPS and music playing on my phones long before the iPhone came out.