I became enamored with his creations.
(Starting with the ][+ even going so far as to solder hundreds of tiny circuit board dots for a huge16kb)
I became ensnared within his insidious cult of personality.
(Many of my artistic hires would "only work with Macs")
I became enraged with his devious methodology of proprietary products.
(iTunes, 'nuff said)
Is the final chapter on Steve finally in?
The fanbois can still hold their collective breath and wait for the announcement that it's all just a clumsy, awful hoax to generate publicity for the delayed iPhone 5 disaster.
In 30 years as much as I've come to despise Apple The Infernal Company and Steve The Jobsian Monster, they collectively were, beyond a shadow of a doubt, pure masters of the marketing game and know all too well the methods of manipulating the masses.
I'm half-expecting a product rollout, concurrent with the funeral, replete with the as-yet-unannounced 64GB iCoffin (with unprecedented 16MB cameras so that we can all be safe & sure the dead is dead; via the Limited Jobsian-Edition iZombie app, of course). Soon everyone will be tenting outside funeral homes ready to pay (brains through their noses) for a two-year, premium iDied 4G contract. Everyone will eventually forget about the enormous iSick fail (with blame squarely placed on a counterfeit iLiver).
As long as our iPhone can direct us to the next hot restaurant and iPod can play our favourite music in blissful isolation, we all can live easier with false-flag terror, erosion of basic liberties, extra-judicial killings, illegal wars, drug-dealing gov't and the slow death of the republic, ad nauseum.
No matter what I or anyone thinks of this contemporary Willy Wonka, he and his dastardly evil machine called Apple were, in the end analysis, certainly exceptionally good for the industry as a whole.
Now back to your regularly scheduled programming including apoplectic concern about the future of our little consumer entertainment devices...
