MAGA: Make Apple Great Again
"I'm not here to turn Apple around..."
Wonderful to see the iBook in a context of seeming cool when that was such a disgusting era of product design, hamstrung between the 1940s and the next millennium.
Jobs' comment about how you've got to choose clunkier form factors to make products affordable while stipulating that the "the plan" is to increase churn captures a seeming paradox that eventually becomes a long running series of lectures by Cory Doctorow.
Obsolescence has been very planned and very necessary for the industrial revolution.
Begging a question about human generations: do we have to obsolesce ourselves? Given that we're always dying anyway, there's maybe a natural rhythm to industrial change that ought to be respected.
Praise be to Allah that the Bondi Blue iBook is gone the way of the dodo. And marvel at "progress". As Jobs holds up that LCD (and wifi chip) in the iBook, he portends of everything we are going through today: we are making the crossing from a victorian era of geniuses showing off tubes and sparks to being obsolesced by a galactic civilization of robots! -- compared to Jobs, Musk is such a chump. But Jobs is now lost in the circle of life, and soon Musk and we will be lost too.
Where are the old Esalen Institute dorks when we need them?!
