It’s not because Apple made so much money, gained so much profit and market share or captured so much press attention; Nokia and Motorola were there and nobody hated them. RIM ruled over enterprises, Microsoft ruled over hackers. Everybody had an easy piece of the pie.

But I’ve figured that one out: never until Apple were so many users from so many market segments that came to the conclusion their previous devices sucked so hard at their own expense. These users felt the urge to lynch those producers.

So now everybody in the industry hates Apple because they fear they’ll be lynched by their own customers who came to see an Apple device. Actually they desperately hope that after they kill Apple they can go back to selling crap, as they are unable to build anything better than crap.

Nokia, RIM, HP, Dell are killed by their own dissapointed customers, not by some virtual numbers in their financial reports. The customers are killing slowly and painfully; the numbers only testify to this process.

There.

The revelation: “One lesson the company learned from last year’s Sensation XL and the Rezound: customers don’t really choose smartphones based on the headphones — even headphones with a brand as recognizable as Beats.” – same article.

Ahem… I guess there’s a monkey hiding inside HTC Corporation (or CNet?), leading the “me too” strategy. But it got it all wrong: the headphones were not supposed to attract new customers, they were supposed to increase the value of the products they’re packed with, so that HTC customers feel more valuable and better cared then others; these customers thus become more loyal, spend more money on HTC and may bring other buyers.

I can imagine some CCO willing to see the results (read “money”) of this marriage and getting instead this marketing bullshit (that I was giving you, also) and “customer satisfaction surveys” that are worth shit to her/him. So s/he cuts the project, bleeding 300 milion dollars at instance; then s/he cuts some marketing heads – bleeding another God-knows-how-much-more money. While the monkey rejoice!

That’s equivalent to “the burglar was the only person that prevented Mr Smith from becoming the richest man on Earth”…

Speaking of getting rich, I wonder wether there’s anybody figuring out that Google’s money no longer comes out of companies’ pockets, but of Government’s? Why would Google try to make money with its mobile OS, while this OS was only a bait for bigger fishes, which are now themselves bigger baits for the biggest fish?

Android was always a free trojan mimicking iPhone OS and iOS; it gathered data about its users, data that’ve been “anonymized” then sold to big companies then “un-anonymized” and sold to US Government. Paying for Android would be like paying for your computer virus.

Paper

Everything else follows.

Apple will fail because

1. It is competing against its own customers by curating their apps; sandboxing is a way of killing devs.

2. It’s arrogant – “You’re holding it wrong” is a non-answer to antennagate, instead of calming down the stakeholders.

3. iBooks are a failure as the price of an iTextbook equals the one of a paper textbook.

Therefore, I say:

1. As building a safer environment with sandboxed apps is a permanent fail, let us all keep paying antivirus companies for ruining the rest of what could stood still in our OS;

2. Believing the antenna-shit instead of simply debunking it, calms down the dumbheads that are now drooling over Apple’s cash, so let’s make shitty PR instead of exquisite products;

3. Having star-trek-ish textbooks is nothing without having them for free. You’re not allowed to help education and make decent money; the greater the job you do with education, the poorer you should grow. Teachers should not even be paid.

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I was asked the other day why am I so angry at people talking bullshit. I’m angry because bullshit spreads through writing and reading; a shithead can easily talk a sleepyhead to believing, thus becoming two shitheads.

Freedom of speech also means freedom of bullshitting, therefore there’s no other way but to fight for common sense.

These bloggers are talking about some scumbags that sued Apple for the hell of it just as they were filing for bankruptcy, thus becoming Apple’s most notorious “adversary”. Apple and Proview are the “two companies that have been squabbling back and forth”… ? No shit?

Who the fuck is Proview?

Now, do you get why is Apple suing back Proview for damaged reputation? Because the press misunderstood that Proview was a company.

Who the fuck pays these guys to write this bullshit?

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What we call “simple and natural” is never simple or natural, unless it is nature itself (which, nevertheless, is not simple at all). Think about some “natural” postures of Da Vinci’s characters, or Shakespeare’s human profiles: these simple and natural characters are only perceived as such. In order to obtain that, the artists have to fully master the art technics of displaying only the simplicity and naturalness. Both Da Vinci’s and Shakespeare’s characters are extremely complex and they require an exaggerated amount of refinement and detail.

Nuh.., it was only Path that uploaded your contacts to its server! All the others just auto-magically know who your friends are…