Steve's Job

Well, I am literally exhausted from 'experiencing' MacWorld and the announcements that came out of Steve Job's keynote. And all I did was watch it on the web.

30 years since Steve and Woz started all this. I gotta say, he is a better speaker than most CEO's. I really don't understand why they parade these suits out at the big shows (ehem: Sony), they'd be better off scouring the company for the 1 guy that actually believes the crap they are spouting. I think that is what Job's does. He believes ! Mostly in his own press, but seriously, it may be the reality distortion field but I think there is a real mandate at Apple. Whether they live up to it is not the question (right now). I personally think it is a mistake NOT to take on hardware partners (hint: Sony Vaios) for their operating system. But all in due time.

So saying that Apple (as Jobs) has a real vision, a real mission does validate that vision (since the validity of a vision is tested against whether it is a LIE or not. BUT... Why so closed...

By necessity? I don't know. It occurred to me that (aside from a Vision) the major difference between Job's Keynote and Gates Keynote (at CES last week) is that Gates spent the time trying to convince us of a future in which information flowed easily and happily from producer to consumer, and from producer/consumer to producer/consumer, and from refrigerator to cell-phone to car to office workstation.

A lovely future to be sure.

What Jobs showed us was a (very strict) way fully utilize all the promises of the CURRENT internet. Seriously, NOTHING NEW !!! NOTHING...

But (if you have a .MAC account and all the latest Apple hardware and software)...

It just works...

every time one of my prejudices falls away, Apple hands me another pill to swallow "dude, the red ones only REALLY works if you take it with 2 greens, a bit of this Alaskan red-hair, and a few swigs of Steve's hooch...


sounds appetizing