Yes Jon Stewart and the Daily Show have taken on the plight of poor Jason Chen and the folks at Gizmodo.
The bit had a few good chuckles… like when Jon said, “The cops had to bash in the guy’s door??? Don’t they know there’s an app for that?”
And with that they showed this image..
But from there Stewart went on to take on Apple and the “raids” commenting “This whole thing is out of control”. And with that he went into a first person diatribe about Apple becoming “The Man”. He even showed a clip of the commercial introducing the iMac and then said, “It wasn’t supposed to be that way”.
Look Jon, you have a point…
Apple is not warm and fuzzy. They haven’t been in a long, long time.
And they aren’t counter-culture any longer. No, they ARE the culture.
And Apple isn’t loose and hip. Nope, they are tightly wound, paranoid control-freaks.
They have a boatload of cash, no debt, and a desire to reshape technology and the way we interact with it. Oh, what? They’ve ALREADY done that? Never mind.
Yes they do make great stuff. But they aren’t the company that people once loved and admired. They are big business and getting bigger every day. WE KNOW THAT, but their stuff is still freaking awesome.
So Jon, you didn’t say anything we don’t already know about Apple… but you did overlook one tiny thing… the law may well have been broken… and not by Apple. So if you are going to start bashing why not make sure who did what wrong… first. And on that count nobody seems to know exactly what lines were crossed or laws may have been broken… yet. Or better yet, stick with something simple and clear-cut… like Healthcare Reform. 🙂
Oh, and one other good line from the bit….
“Fact is if you want to break down somebody’s door why don’t you start with AT&T for God’s sake. They make your amazing phone unusable… (long Jon Stewart-esque pause…) as a phone…”
Good one, Jon.
It is worth a watch over on Gawker.tv.
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Apple may have come close to breaking the law with the attempt to intimidate their way into the home of the guy who found the phone. That wasn’t the police and they had no business being there. Apple’s products are great and they’ve taken usability to a new level. Apple’s corporate behaviour and messianic cult surrounding Jobs is astounding and repulsive.
melvynadam-
“Apple’s products are great and they’ve taken usability to a new level.”
AGREED
“Apple’s corporate behaviour and messianic cult surrounding Jobs is astounding and repulsive.”
AGREED*2
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That is hilarious. I laughed and laughed. It is all so true.
AT&T will never overcome the DNA of Ma Bell that lives in their bones. Remember when you had to wait two weeks to have a new phone installed at your house, and you got a choice between basic black and basic black? That part of Ma Bell lives on.
Doug-
True but keep this in mind… they also gave us the transistor, the research that led to the first trans-atlantic fiber optical cable and much much more.
Divestiture was a mixed blessing.