Apple & Steve Jobs

I want to make it very clear. I am an IBM girl. Not an Apple girl. Not an I-Phone girl. I will never own any Apple product or any byproduct of an Apple (which includes I-Phones, I-Pads, I-Watches, E-Touches, etc) for those of you who have convinced yourself that these are not Apple devices simply because they are not computers.  You are wrong.

IBM and Apple could be compared like Chevy and Ford or Red Sox and Yankees.  You pick your team and you stick with it.  Except in this case, it’s a bit different.

Steve Jobs was two things.  When it came to marketing the man was an absolute genius!  At this moment I cannot think of anybody who has him beat.  He was one of a kind, absolutely amazing!  A pure shame that he passed away, American’s could have learned a lot from a man like him.  But when it came to technology, he was an idiot and a jackass.  He knew his product was crap and inferior.  Not only didn’t he care, he had no objective to change it.

When it comes to technology and retail, the man who has the newest, fastest, flashiest, most advanced product wins the game.  However, if you can trick your opponent (and the buyer/public) with the correct marketing tools, than you don’t really need the best product in order to win the game.

This is what Mr. Jobs did.  He was the marketing king, as I said-a pure freaking genius!  He knew Americans all too well.  Knowing his product was not as good as the competition, realizing it possibly may never be, he had to find a way to still end up on top.

Americans are lazy, idiotic fools.  If you market something just right, they shall bite and bite hard.  He knew the vast majority of Americans would pay triple (or more) the price for a product that looked pretty, flashy and hip, that was “user friendly” (meaning you do not need to take anytime to figure out how to use it, no manual, no time spent learning about the product you purchased, just buy and use) and that everybody else had.  It didn’t matter if the product happened to come with glitches, bugs, problems, defects, viruses.  It was worth it.  Because it’s the new cool thing, everybody has them (you’re an asshole if you don’t), they look so flashy and pretty and their SOOOO easy to use!

Yes-I own a droid.  Yes-I have used I-Phone’s.  No-I am not close minded.  No-I am not judgmental.  Yes-I do research (un-like most people, people who are close minded and judgmental.)
I do not “dis” on Apple's and I-Phone’s simply because I don’t like them and I’m a hateful person.  I am not dissing anything.  I am simply stating the facts.

I understand that I-Phone users will not want to hear this.  However, (as I stated above) I have done research and I have personally used both Android and I-Phone products.  As much fighting and bickering that has been done about my droid can do this and my I-Phone can do that.  Well, I hate to tell you guys this.  But….I spent weeks on both phones trying multiple apps, games, GPS devices, downloads, signals, you name it-I tried it and neither phone did something the other one couldn’t. 

The only major difference’s I found were;
         1. In order to do anything on an I-phone you have to download important I-Phone software and sometimes this software causes bugs or further issues.  Plus, if you don’t download the software, you’re screwed.  Oh yeah and the software cost extra money.
         2. Randomly while running multiple apps the I-Phone would just freeze or crash so to speak.  Just like a Mac does…weird….
         3. Only certain cell companies offer the I-Phone.  That’s not exactly convenient or fair.  Just so happens to be the higher priced companies…strange….
         4. Say I want to sign up for a music program online where I pay $10 a month for unlimited downloads of streaming MP3 music which I can access from any device I have from anywhere (oh, this only includes computers and android devices).


I will end with this….
The I-Phone 4S.  This is a joke right?  This is a sub contract of the I-Phone 5.  Who the fuck markets a program that you want to completely work the bugs out of before you put the “real” item on the market?!?!  Nice job making money off of American idiots. A for effort!