Yes, it took me a while to get to this. But am I the only one who though the "RIP", "visionary", "genious", and a truck-load of emoteicons like this ":((((" were fake and posey?
May I preface this with the honest admission that he was a great businessman, and there's no dispute there.
However, what I am standing up against, is the unbelievable amount of posers who rose like an army or iKissAss when he passed away.
Firstly, how many of his fans gave a damn why he died? He died of pancreatic cancer but little to no attention was paid to that. Famous and loved as he was by the public, he could have raised awareness about what is one of the fastest growing killers of our time. Instead, he chose to cover it up,and throw "it's a common bug" and "Look, my blood pressure is OK, 110/70" in media's face. No, he didn't have to, raising awareness wasn't part of Jobs' job description and health is a personal matter but it's just my opinion that maybe it would have been better, braver and could have saved lives.
Hoards of teenagers, hipsters and general members of the public who had Facebook accounts and a lot of spare time, bombarded the media and their unfortunate friends on the social media platforms with "RIP, Steve Jobs, a visonary and genius". Please. Did this only feel fake to me? The pretentiousness and lack of criticism is astounding.Following and immitating someone's status is not "cool", it shows you have the average brain of a sheep. Sorry, sheep, it must be mean to be compared to a person with no opinion, who thinks having an iPod makes them better than the others. How much did most of these people know about Jobs, except that he created iPods and iPads, before they read the articles of thousands of newspapaers online, who reported his death and summed up his achievements? Reading their text-talk acronyms as their statuses was painful. The fact that anyone who was close enough was forced to listen to a hipster pretentiously gasp about their beloved iPod was intolerable. I woke up that morning, saw it in the news, shrugged, and then made the mistake to open my Facebook account. The flood of regurgitation of the same chewed three photos of Jobs, circulating the net with "RIP/genious/visionary/;((" buzzwords underneath would have made any bulimic envious, wishing they could regurgitate as much as the army of iFollowers.
They cried like it was their own grandfather. Never mind that the tears were fake. You didn't know him. Not only that, he was a businessman who was indirectly responsible for, yes, sweatshops, child labour, all that stuff you just tuned out and didn't hear me say to you, because you swiped yuor finger and turned the volume up on your iPad. Will you cry like this when the owner of Microsoft, Bill Gates, dies? Probably not. Because they didn't make you feel superior to others for having their overpriced monopolistic product. No, Microsoft is for the mass, everybody has it, it's uncool. Then again, some will cry their fake tears because they will adopt the sheep mentality once again and copy the statuses of their friends, when they hardly know what they are talking about.
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I don't like Steve Jobs. At all.
I find most people who are head over heels about him pretentious or possibly cherry picking about their idol. Hell, I stopped visiting a place in Sofia after the owner explained to me that all PC users are "morons" and owning a PC is "bad karma", of course, he was a MAC user. (I am not going to comment on what kind of a moron one should be to even think that way, not to mention speak like tthat but it is showing, isn't it?).
Don't get me wrong... Apple producst are very, very easy. You can buy it, take it at home, open it and in 5 minutes you are ready to go, everything is set, you just work it. But the whole marketing build of as something of a lifestyle is ridicolous... it's a ploy to sell you products people, it's not a position taking or socially coscious decision!
If I have to be honest, when comparing products and user-friendliness, Apple wins with a lot. But when we talk about the creators, when we turn it into competition between Bill and Steve... the latter miserably fails, because the latter is a horrible human being. He has been an ass but he got away with it, because his products were good, nothing more. I think the whole world is in a bad relationship with horrible, unpleasant characters, who treat us badly, but we love them even more for that (and by we, I mean they, though I have a few peaces of Apple products in my house as well), I mean, one of the most popular shows is House.
I think it's more about a sense of belonging. The same way some people are united by their favorite band, or feeling superior becaue they don't eat meat (whatever).
Енея, кое е мястото в София, чийто собственик предпочита Мак? Интересно ми е.
За мен е ясно, че повечето хора, които си купуват Маци (да, вместо Макове) са претенциозни на тази тема и си ги взимат, за да създадат конкретно впечатление у другите. И аз съм имала Айфон, точно затова мога да си правя изводи и за хората, и за самите продукти. Както ми е забивал Айфон, нищо друго не ми е забивало. Но иначе ме уверяват колко било невероятно и превъзхождали всички останали.
Мисля, че много точно го каза: наистина, колкото по-лошо се държат с нас, толкова повече ги обичаме :) Затова превъзнасяме монополисти и ги смятаме за брилянтни бизнесмени. Не без право. Но, разбира се, ние си знаем разликата между добър бизнесмен и добър човек. Защо решиха, че едното се превежда в другото?
Много точно попадение е това последното, за чувството на принадлежност. Затова не обичам музика, още по-малко алтернативна музика. Нямам търпимост към претенциозни хипари, които обичат музика, чута само от продуцента и още 3 ма от неговите приятели. Самоцелно ми е, каквото и да ми казват.
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