“Unlike everyone else in the tech business, Steve Jobs doesn’t appear at the Consumer Electronics Show. Rather than share the spotlight with the rest of the industry, he grabs center stage at his own MacWorld show next week,” Peter Kafka writes for Forbes. “But Apple Computer doesn’t need to come anywhere near CES to make an impact–Jobs’ company is on the minds of lots of tech executives these days, whether or not they mention it out loud. Bill Gates’ presentation gets graded, consciously or not, by the standard set by Jobs’ famously theatrical presentations–and his performance Wednesday night was ‘his attempt to out-Job Jobs, and it didn’t work,’ sniffed one tech executive cum drama critic. Likewise, Yahoo, Google, and Sony.”
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[UPDATE: 11:25pm ET: Fixed headline typo.]
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it’s a herculean job to outjob jobs
The original Jellicle Steve Jobs! All imitations pale in comparison.
Please fix the headline – not exactly sure what “electornics” are – is it some sort of storm involving bits of beige plastic?
There is no ‘outdoing’ Local Leader Steve J.
All Yahoo’s are proceeding downward in a death spiral, Googling their way into teeny, tiny, little Sony bits.
No one will escape his wrath . . . especially Disney. Relnack will not be denied.
Make your time.
Electornics
Pronunciation: i-“lek-‘tOr-niks
Function: noun plural
1: Microsoftian in construction : a branch of physics that deals with gobbledegook, pobblebockle, and crocklefether squiggs (as in crocklefether squiggs and flennburts) and with “electornic” devices
2: electornic devices or equipment, usually referenced during live presentations by flobbergobbers (see below)
Flobbergobber
Pronunciation: ‘fläb-b&r-gäb-b&r
Function: noun
1: A person who talks unremitting senseless rubbish, e.g William Gates
2: The rubbish spoken by such a person
The Force is strong with this one.
Mafiasoft should have sent “Monkey Boy” to pump up the crowd before Billy went on.
looser.
From Engadget:
Overheard after Yahoo’s buggy keynote:
“Well Steve Jobs is a fscking Jedi Master of this shit compared to these other clowns.”
too many false idols at the CES. MacWorld is the inner rectum…uh, sanctum
Jobs would pwn j00 all.
I must admit that it is really funny, seeing Microsoft being slapped by Apple on one side and Google on the other.
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I just wish Google hadn’t entered the Online Video store and compete with Apple. It makes a lot more sense for the two great companies to join forces, rather than fight.
MACMANIA yeah Monkey boy….. that is funny… hi sweaty bald head bobbin up and down tongue flickin in and out… monkey boy is the only good entertainment tiny Flacid has
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Ahhhh…but in the past the Stevego had the keys to not only the software he makes but also the processor. Only one gets to reveal the magic of the PowerPC processor, only one knows the secrets of this chips mighty power.
But alas, that part of the magic show is gone.
The Stevego can no longer be the first to reveal the magic of the computer – it´s processor or what can be built around to house it (a carbon fiber body? thinner? longer battery life?) – all to the delight of the oh so curious techie crowd. Because now that he uses Intel chips, just like Dell, Fujitsu/Siemens, sony, Acer, etc, etc, etc the magic of the new processor has already been revealed.
Steve will hold up the new Yonah-processor; “The size of dime! 68% faster! 25% less power!”
The crowd will yawn…we heard all that last week at CES.
Puzzled at the lack of ooohing and aaahing at his processor revelations Stevego will hold up the new iBook, “Behold – Carbon fiber body!!! Thinner, thinner, thinner!”
The crowd will yawn again, “Sony already showed that last week…”
“A built-in camera in the laptop lid”, booms the Stevego holding the thinner iBook above his head getting a shot of the crowd that is displayed on the 50 foot screen behind him.
“Acer already showed that last week, too!” screams a techie wearing a “Star Trek Rules” t-shirt, “Show us something new!”
“My new Mactel laptop has a 13-inch screen!” proclaims the Stevego.
“But Dell demoed a 17-inch laptop running the same chips!”, replied a saddened Apple store employee from Oregon.
The Stevego is dumbfounded – how can this be? Where is the fawning, the unquestioning of my greatness? Wait,wait, wait!
Steve fumbles around in his shirt pocket, his front pants pockets and then from out of his back pocket he pulls out, “The NEW 6GB NANO!”
The crowd roars in approval, the applause fills the room, a rolling standing ovation begins. Stevego beams with pride. The press cameras are flashing so much Stevego´s bald spot starts to glow like a halo.
As the noise dies down in the hall, a lone voice cries out, “But SanDisk revealed a cool looking musical device the size of the Nano that is also 6GB!?!”
The Stevego turns to the lowly crowd member, “But it doesn´t run on iTunes!!!” The crowd again erupts in applause and laughter and the silly outspoken person slinks to the exit, thinking to herself, “Good thing I didn´t mention Google Video service. I would have never made it out of here alive”.
On stage, the Stevego holds up a small box, “Behold the new mac mini, it will hold up to 10,000 episodes of Lost and Desparate Housewives!”
The crowd swoons.
It is very easy to out-Jobs Jobs, just make a clearly better and innovative product, and do it consistently.
Okay… ummm… maybe it’s not that easy to out-Jobs Jobs.
Re: Apple Advertising
Why spend millions of dollars upon single pages in magazines that few read or expensive 30-second clips for the mindless TV viewers when you can get countless entire articles written about you for free?
Apple must be doing something right!
Hank – that is classic satire about “the Stevego”. You nailed it.
You maybe could have slipped in a thing about the faulty Apple software “Aperture” on how it only works properly when it used to modify photos with his holiness “the Stevego” in them.
haha yeh Hank thats a good one ‘stevego’ heh im in stitches, why dont you mention how super evolved Windows Vista will be on the Dell, Fujitsu/Siemens, Sony, Acer, etc pc’s and how it has thousands upon thousands of viruses already out and available for it, and how it crashes when you run more then a couple apps, theyll love that one Hank you lame ass w..k