For YEARS I have criticized and poked fun at Apple for striving to be different than personal computers. In fact, I remember when my family purchased our first PC. I was in the seventh grade, and I was strongly motivated to encourage my parents to get one after experiencing my first real-time strategy game: Warcraft 2. Many a conversation was to be had with my best friend, Scott, about why PC’s were superior to Macintosh, including that Mac’s were not compatible with most computer games. For whatever reason, Apple has worn as a banner of pride that they aren’t compatible with PC’s.
[One quick comment before I continue – it has been overly amusing to me to see Mac’s, for all intents and purposes, recently turn into expensive PC’s. They use intel processors, incorporate Microsoft Office, and can run a Windows OS! What’s the difference between Mac’s and PC’s? Mac’s are four times as expensive. You are essentially paying for their operating system].
There. I got it out of my system, lollerbeamz go pew pew =).
Even though Apple and Mac users annoy me to no end with their mind numbing claims of superiority, I was so proud after reading an exchange between Steve Jobs and a blogger at “Valleywag.” Apple’s CEO received an email criticizing them for standing in the way of freedom to look at internet pornography on the iphone, itouch and ipad. “Is Apple about freedom?” he was asked. Steve had this to say in response:
“Yep, freedom from programs that steal your private data. Freedom from programs that trash your battery. Freedom from porn. Yep, freedom. The times they are a changin’.”
I don’t know about you but I don’t think I can even recall another CEO who has taken a firm stance against the pornography industry. Consider the position a man like Steve Jobs is in, then consider the above statement. I mean, wow. That took some serious nerve. I honestly had no idea he had these kinds of convictions. He goes on to talk about how he wants Apple to help introduce new technologies that aren’t developed first by and for the porn industry. Gotta be honest here, this is a wonderful thing, and Steve Jobs has earned my respect
*glances over his shoulder for the Doc, or Jamie, or any other deceived #prosapologian Mac user*
I was even more surprised that Apple’s app store won’t distribute pornographic applications either! The news just keeps getting better and better. Macintosh will probably never be the right fit for a guy like me – mainly because I like hardware and software choices, aaand because I prefer to pay one quarter of the price of Macintosh for the same thing – but Jobs takes a good stance. For that, I give him mad props.
Does anyone know anything about Steve Jobs’ religious background?
Thanks for reading,
Rusty
