{"id":3288,"date":"2010-04-10T18:22:11","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T01:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/?p=3288"},"modified":"2010-08-07T09:05:52","modified_gmt":"2010-08-07T16:05:52","slug":"steve-jobs-goes-full-cheney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/steve-jobs-goes-full-cheney\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Jobs Goes Full Cheney"},"content":{"rendered":"

J<\/b>obs and Apple are airborne . . . and looking down at a shark. Waging endless war with . . . everyone. Again. <\/a> <\/p>\n

The Stiftung grows tired of Apple’s Cheney-esque monomaniacial bellicosity. Infinite Loop’s once quasi-benign hegemonic control of its software and hardware ecosystem offered a safe harbor in a world under Redmond’s boot. Now, Apple, like Cheney, launches war for the preposterous ‘1% solution.’ Its software development kits (SDKs) and products in 2010 are increasingly locked if not suffocating. Publicly the company surges onward. Don’t we all see the sheep-like herds obediently buying what vacant ‘hipsters’ tell them in the now ubiquitous suburban temples? (There are *9* Apple Stores alone in the D.C. metro area. A sure sign of middle brow decadence).<\/p>\n

The Bunker is largely an Apple shop today. Mainly by slow accretion. (You may remember we got 2 original Macs in early 1984 before they hit the streets via<\/i> an institution of higher learning). Microsoft’s stuff left by retirement. Including an Xbox with yes, the Red Rings of Death. We’ve often written that from the COO and VP levels on down, Microsoft is the single most malevolent, dishonest and incompetent corporate culture we’ve encountered. Still, Windows 7 tempts one to overlook Vista’s obscenity. One can grab some Core i7 power for a song. For the first time since Sculley and Spindler ran Apple, we’d smile at the cashier doing it. An infinitesimally miniscule psychic jab to Infinite Loop. How geopolitical. Unexpected, too.<\/p>\n

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R<\/b>eaders know the Stiftung at times enjoys deploying animations for our merry band. Apple doesn’t approve. Jobs and Apple in a fit of pique declared war on this technique and all developers using those tools.<\/a> Adobe creates bloatware, no question. Apple claims Adobe is inefficient and crashes Apple stuff. But Apple itself denies Adobe and others access to Apple’s operating systems’ application interfaces (APIs). Graphics hardware such as cards are also blocked (ever wonder why the selection of Apple-approved graphics cards for Mac Pros were so scant?) Microsoft by contrast allows API and hardware access. Jobs claims Adobe must be crushed\/banned in favor of ‘open standards’. Adobe sees its future profitability at risk.<\/a> The Stiftung? We see unprecedented hypocrisy, Cheney-like control freakishness and an attack on the developer community. The reality distortion field is now a black hole.<\/p>\n

Then there’s Jobs’ war on Google to protect the iPhone. (Add the patent lawsuits filed against HTC, the Taiwanese OEM. HTC makes alot of Verizon’s and T-Mobile’s phones using Google’s Android OS). Jobs wants regime change. His anger is stoked by some real perfidy and his zeal for scorched earth. Google, he claims, went to school on Apple and learned how to enter the mobile phone market. Yet Jobs and co. did the exact thing to Motorola during the ill-fated Rokr music phone years ago. Using Motorola, Apple turned around and created the iPhone. (Not to defend the moribund Motorola culture or Ed Zander, but still). <\/p>\n

If we all together were Google, consider our future. (Jobs was right about one thing, Google’s motto ‘Don’t be evil’ is bs). Google sells data. If the future is mobile access via<\/i> devices, what sane person would want a control-obsessed company like Apple via<\/i> iPhone (and now iPad) with a chokehold on our windpipe? Look at what they’re doing to Adobe today. <\/p>\n

Some of Apple’s software still remains compelling. Brit designer Ive’s hardware? Beautiful. Something significant is changing. To us Apple crossed imperceptible but important lines. We doubt the sheep flocking to the suburban temples notice or care. And hi-tech corporate warfare is a commonplace. This feels different after years of working in, for and with technology companies. We’re reminded when the Warlord’s White House first resurrected and unfurled Wolfie’s spindled DPG as a ‘new’ national security strategy . Few understood then it meant let loose the dogs of war. For those watching the tech industry, Dominique de Villepin would be perfect as a Greek chorus to Jobs. Stylishly and with taste, of course. <\/p>\n

Or Steve’ll lay his soul to waste. Pleased to meet you. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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