[microsound] RIP Steve Jobs

[john saylor]

hey

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 22:53,  <beatthefinalboss at gmail.com> wrote:
> What does any of this have to do with microsound, anyway?

microsound -> audio -> technology -> tools -> macs

of course, the list is not only about macs [each of the arrows
actually have multiple destinations in my conception, ymmv]. i don't
mind the diversion, the list is sometimes very quiet. but kim is the
final arbiter.

> Whether you like him and his company or not, you can't argue that
> he was not highly influential, in many ways, to the world of technology.

this is faint praise. if you substitute politics for technology you
could be talking about sen. joe mccarthy ['unamerican activities']. my
point is simply because someone is influential does not mean they were
a positive influence.

i understand the tendency to not speak ill of the dead, after all, we
will all be in that position ourselves one day. but on the other hand,
i see no reason to try to say anything other than what seems true to
me, regardless if i'm talking about people who are living or dead.

his autocratic style got a lot of good work out of a lot of people.
and if you count the money, there's a lot. i don't like apple's closed
systems and their emphasis on marketing style, but live and let live.

-- 
\js [http://or8.net/~johns/] : "What started with a kind of poetry
turned into social war." -CR