“Maybe Steve Jobs is human after all. Over the past seven days, reports have surfaced of three new electronic miscreants aimed at Apple’s Mac OS X computer operating system. That’s a first for the Mac maker, and, accordingly, the news stirred up a media firestorm. Comparisons to the virus-ridden beast that is Microsoft’s Windows OS soon followed. I had intended to pile it on. But then I read an interesting story at businessweek.com by ‘Byte of the Apple’ columnist Airk Hesseldahl. He asserts that the attacks are much ado about nothing,” Tim Beyers writes for The Motley Fool. “Initial accounts suggest he’s right: There have been no reports of damage among the victims of these digital outbreaks.”
“So why the hysteria? I don’t know. Maybe it’s that the mainstream media has adopted a ‘gotcha’ mentality when it comes to Apple. That would make sense, given Apple’s remarkable run over the past two years. And call me a conspiracy theorist, but I think this morning’s news adds a bit of fuel to the fire: Apple announced that the iTunes Music Store has sold more than 1 billion downloads,” Beyers writes. “Saying Apple has become the heavy in downloadable digital media is putting it very mildly… Accordingly, I understand why some have chosen to throw jabs. Apple has risen from relative obsolescence to superstardom, after all. But really now, Jobs? Human? Get real.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews reader “vitaboy” for the heads up.]
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Nailed to the cross in 1985, resurrected in 1997, Steve can walk on water, and when he releases the iWine (just add water), the iFish, and iLoaf he will have achieved god-hood.
WTF!
It’s as though the author believes that SJ himself wrote the entire Mac OS X, and was therefore personally responsible for the bugs therein. Seems like a fairly tongue in cheek article, so careful with that ax, Eugene.
Jobs is from the Planet Krypton. he was found by Mr & Mrs Jobs and brought up as a normal human. My parents, Mr & Mrs Gates saw Steves cpasule land and recovered Steve’s only weekness, a chunk of his Home planet that tagged along when he was placed in his escape pod by his natural krypton parents. They gave this kryptonite to me as I grew up. I know I can get steve to do anything i want by just patting the lead box i always carry with me….Steve is NOT human, and he does MY bidding Bwahahaha I cant even control Blamer as much as I can Jobs ………
Steve Jobs is a GOD.
Nailed to the cross in 1985, resurrected in 1997, Steve can walk on water, and when he releases the iWine (just add water), the iFish, and iLoaf he will have achieved god-hood.
Remember Steve is part Syrian, so it’s more like when Steve dies he will cross this iBridge over a iLake of fire.
If the work of his life holds up, there will be a vestal of iVirgins awaiting him.
iVegans of course, naked except a little iPod Nano hanging between their iBoobs.
Hmmm…
…sigh…
macDude, stop it!
You’re giving me an iChubby!
Someone needs to investigate this and Follow the Money. I am sure it leads to Steve Balmer’s door step. Some shady deals in a parking garage where manilla envelopes are passed from one dark character to another. Oh, yessss… I have seen the brief.
Microsoft – stop paying hackers to write miscreants to create a false hysteria in the Mac community. It won’t help the release of your vaporware called Vista.
Rabid Mac haters would have loved it if there really was a “Mac malware outbreak”. The very thought of it, had them rubbing themselves and panting.
Let’s face it. They collectively made a guffaw when they made windblows the number one market share os. Now, it’s easier and much less painful to make up nonsense about Mac than admit they all fsked up.
Rock on Steve!
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Wow. We’ve become just like television and movies. Incestuous, they are.
We write about those who write about what we write about, which is what they wrote about, then we all read about it by trading stories.
Is it any wonder that there’s not more hysteria?
Really. At least this guy didn’t fall into the “virus” and “worm” trap of mainstream media. That’s where the so-called hysteria came from. Not from Mac folks.
I like the term “electronic miscreants.” It just sounds more mature than Trojan Horse, or Virus, don’t you think? Windows users suffer through virus and worms. Mac users have an occasional malformed miscreant.
Which, by the way, is what all the media hoopla was about. Malformation, and non-formation. The original OS X/Leap-A was malformed. The Bluetooh miscreant was evicted last year. The most recent problem was never found in the wild, though it exposed an obvious social fabric flaw in Safari.
Mac users seem to like things that work well, which is one reason we’re attracted to Apple products and Mac OS X. It just works. In this era of self publishing, we’ve found that mainstream media doesn’t publish information with as much accuracy or gusto as Mac users love their Macs. The vaccum gets filled by sites who are not afraid to point out errors here and there, and hold the media to a higher standard.
Tera Patricks
TeraTalks
No…. He is an Alien from another inteligence planet.
He is taking refuge on Earth.
Didn’t all of you watch the movie Men in Black????!!!!
Jobs is a Jedi Master.
All these martyrs are going to be very unhappy when they discover their 70 virgins are all over 70 years old.
Tera Patricks Rules!!!
And she’s hot!
iPorn, please Apple…. I’m begging you
Local Leader Steve J is not human. Such verbiage is sacrilege. This writer will be bleemed. Say ‘bye bye’ to Beyers.
The End of Relnackian Days is near, and Microsoft will bear the brunt.
It would be wise to bow down now to Local Leader. Genuflection will be remembered and rewarded on judgement day, when Relnackian Guards arrive to dismantle Redmond.
Also, there will be a sale of office furniture, unopened software, and reinforced chairs on the former Microsoft campus the following weekend.
Make your time.
Bambi and Stevie sitting in a tree,
K-I-S-S-I-N-G.
First comes love, then comes marriage
Then comes a blond iPod in the baby carriage.
Steve Jobs: *Hssst* “What is thy bidding my master?”
“You shall go to Intel, and tell them you want to use their processors in the next version of your mind control devices.”
Steve Jobs: “But if IBM could be turned, they would make a powerful ally”
I have my own plans for IBM, they will be doing things my way very shortly
Steve Jobs: “The X-Box my master?”
Bil Gates: Exactly
I’m sure Stevo respects religious beliefs, even if he does not subscribe to many of them, enough to tell his “followers” not to deify him, even in prophetic jest. He is a man, albeit mysterious and brilliant, who has led a exhilarating technological exodus from mundane software and hardware. I applaud and respect him for it, but I don’t worship him. Those who do are part of the problem that plagues Apple and invites digs that we are all a bunch of cultists, in the literal religious sense. We need to shed that image and applaud Apple and Jobs for what they are, brilliant and refreshing antidotes to techno-mediocrity. It’s fun to take it further than that, but in the end we hurt Apple and Jobs by making them into something that the average Joe and Jane want to steer away from so as not to be labeled cult followers. I know some of you understand that. Others, I fear, never will.
So are the Trojan horses now officially being called virus’?
Steve Jobs has turned evil
1: He’s sliding in Trusted Computing behind our backs.
2: Lately he’s been allowing developers to install their applications using root access in anticipation of Trusted Computing.
3: Every Apple application contacts Apple, even if you turn off any auto-updating you find.
4: The Dock, yes the DOCK contacts Apple as of 10.4.4. WTF? A future implementation or a cover to spy on what apps we like to run?
5: Trusted Computing is going to give hardware control of our machines over to developers and marketers like Sony/BMG, Symantec, Microsoft, the CIA, the RIAA, the MIAA and so on using the Extensible Firmware Interface.
6: EFI allows updates and internet monitoring of your machine even before the operating system loads. Any software like Toast or Handbrake that makes hardware calls, instead will be routed to, you guessed it, EFI.
7: Trusted Computing, EFI and HDCP are all brainchilds of Intel. Operating systems are now just eyecandy, EFI will dictate what you can or cannot do with your own machine.
8: DRM lockdown, big time
Search Wikipedia yourself
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undercover_marketing
Oh wait until BlueRay arrives, hahaha!
With Sony/BMG installing rootkits on Mac’s and PC’s the world over, you know they have something really juicy lined up for BlueRay.
Hardware makers like Apple have turned evil, like the RIAA and MIAA.
(just sell your stuff online when it’s released stupid asses, didn’t iTunes teach you anything?)
“4: The Dock, yes the DOCK contacts Apple as of 10.4.4. WTF? A future implementation or a cover to spy on what apps we like to run?”
Not at this house…I’m stuck with dial-up (can’t get cable or dsl.
The 100,000 viruses that have attacked the Windows platform have cost companies and comsumers billions if not trillions of dollars, they have infected and destroyed the data on hundreds of thousands if not millions, of PC’s.
But what provokes media hysteria? An ineffectual attempt at a so called “proof of concept” virus that has, to date, harmed no one. Another is a “weakness” that was patched six months before it was “found”. The third requires the user to jump through hoops and spend literally hours to try and create the perfect circumstances for it to work at all, and then apparently does virtually nothing!
Yes, we know that the Mac is a target, all computers are, but this over the top response to what amounts to a “tempest in a teapot” is ridiculous bordering on insane. The FUDrackers are having a field day. All I have got to say is, “Everyone please go home, there’s nothing to see here”.