<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Yoshizen&#039;s Blog]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://yoshizen.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[yoshizen]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://yoshizen.wordpress.com/author/yoshizen/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[I hate Apple.]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>Since I&#8217;ve put quotations from Steve Jobs on my previous post, some of the people got a</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong> misconception of that I am a fan of Apple products.  Far from it, I am a proud Apple hater.</strong></span></p>
<p>Never attracted to buy any of their product, therefore I don&#8217;t have any, except some discarded junk for spare-</p>
<p>parts. ( A power adapter with broken connector for Mac&#8217; laptop, I bought for £1 from an Odds and Ends box</p>
<p>of a shop, wasn&#8217;t too bad for a  24 V power supply to use with stepping motor, as it is smaller</p>
<p>and having a built-in  fold-away main plug  )</p>
<p>The reason why I hated them since very beginning was, I hate their sales tactics.</p>
<p>Only designed and schemed for the <strong>way of money sucking system, was utterly repulsive to me.</strong></p>
<p><span style="color:#ffffff;">non</span></p>
<p>Storing digitized music signal in a solid-state memory was a natural evolution, as I was seeing the last moment</p>
<p>struggle of Sony trying to cling the market by their Mini-disc, I really pitied them with a question Why ?</p>
<p><strong>Though, I didn&#8217;t buy Apple&#8217;s iPod,</strong> as I saw their greed to monopolize the Music distribution system by their</p>
<p>monopolized  iTunes.  ( Before, I&#8217;ve been annoyed by their Mac&#8217; design. Everything is incompatible with PC.</p>
<p>All the connectors are exclusive, not only the style of it, but the signal protocol, format etc, hence it needs to</p>
<p>have all sorts of converter. &#8212; On top of this, they are much more expensive, selling to the snobs who want to</p>
<p>show off. &#8212;&#8211; I despise those kind of snob most. ( Just watching heavily compressed signal of downloaded</p>
<p>porno, what  is the point to have so-called “ good in graphics Apple Mac “ &#8212;&#8211; don&#8217;t make me laugh.)</p>
<p>( Me to use bloody expensive full-frame Canon was not for fancy pretence, simply because no other camera</p>
<p>allow me free to use another manufacturer&#8217;s lens, even hand-made lens, while keeping auto-exposure function.</p>
<p>You can&#8217;t do this with any another camera &#8212;&#8211; I had no choice. )</p>
<p><span style="color:#ffffff;">non</span></p>
<p>The reason why I did put a post quoting Steve Jobs&#8217; word ;</p>
<p><span style="color:#666699;">&gt;&gt;&gt;<strong><strong> you are not going to use</strong>a piece of plywood on the back,  even though it faces the wall and </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#666699;"><strong>nobody will ever see it. You will know it&#8217;s there,  so you are going to </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#666699;"><strong><span style="color:#000080;">use a beautiful piece of wood</span> on the back. </strong></span></p>
<p>&#8212;&#8211; is to say, in real life,<strong> he didn&#8217;t cut even a single piece of wood to make his product.  He was </strong></p>
<p><strong>not a programmer nor electronic engineer. &#8212; He only know the design spec&#8217; which can sell.</strong></p>
<p>He just pressurized others to make it &#8212;&#8211; in notorious draconian way.</p>
<p>Apple didn&#8217;t make any of their products, from single component (nearly 80% came from Japan )</p>
<p>to final assembly (in China).</p>
<p>But got most of the profit for themselves thanks to their<strong> inflated price.</strong></p>
<p><span style="color:#ffffff;">non</span></p>
<p>I can imagine the pressure who supplied the component, had to face &#8212;&#8211; such as to make it 1mm even thinner</p>
<p>out of already minuscule 3mm high, and even with reduced price.</p>
<p>Everybody had to work for Apple while dripping their blood and under a fear of instant dismissal.</p>
<p>He was a man lived in grudge and the revenge against the people who has kicked him out of Apple before.</p>
<p>No wonder such obsessed hi-tensioned psyche shortened his life. I don&#8217;t think he had a happy life, neither he</p>
<p>gave any happiness to other people &#8212;&#8211;<strong> he only sold an empty vanity, a Myth </strong><strong>to the mass.</strong></p>
<p>When Steve Jobs realized,  that their brain couldn&#8217;t keep hold the Myth for ever, they opened the design of</p>
<p>APP to the outside designer ( in fact it was an ingenious solution ! ) and started to sell the APPs designed by</p>
<p>somebody else.  Yet another exploitation of others while running their money-making  machine for them.</p>
<p>And this must be the reason, why his Hero was real Ninja &#8212;&#8211; who got a deadly efficiency, able to carry out</p>
<p>a duty [to kill] in a most ruthless dirty manner &#8212;&#8211; contrast to useless fantasy in Superman or Spider-man.</p>
<p><span style="color:#ffffff;">non</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>Seeing his death, and seeing the wane of Apple, flood-gate was opened for the people to speak out.</strong></span></p>
<p>So, I&#8217;m very curious to hear, how Steve Jobs could able to force his concept in their product design system.</p>
<p>( Steve Jobs invented nothing. He just used the existing technology and the components only in smaller, pretty</p>
<p>package = putting a lot more together, in order to give an illusion to the users that they can do a lot more.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8211; To do this, the supplier of the component, such as camera, touch-pad etc had to work bloody hard to</p>
<p>make it even smaller with higher spec&#8217; to fill the requirement of the Apple)</p>
<p><span style="color:#ffffff;">non</span></p>
<p>And interesting to see, how such as the Korean industry who got used to just copy, is going to do their future</p>
<p>business without having a sample to copy 😀</p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;">(&#8212;&#8211; <strong>It&#8217;s mean, the inspiration of Steve Jobs was at least unique to him and impossible to copy.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;">&#8212;&#8211;<strong> in this aspect, he WAS a unique man &#8212;&#8211; all the technology in the iPhone has been known </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>to the electronic industry though,  nobody else,  other than Steve Jobs<br />
</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>actually made it to iPhone )</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#0000ff;"><strong>It&#8217;s a funny paradox here. &#8212; (It&#8217;s easy to do, still nobody else but him did do.  He Just Did It.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#0000ff;"><strong>It was a good sample, how to keep an Open-Mind.  And if it needs to be done, Do it.  😀 )<br />
</strong></span></p>
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