“How dare Apple think they can make this problem go away with a free case that makes the problem go away,” Segall writes. “They need to suffer more than that.”
“It’s gotten to the point where Apple doesn’t even try to disguise their arrogance,” Segall writes. “They’re a company that creates devices other companies should have created, follows standards only when it pleases them, shuns research to create only the products they’d like to use themselves — and then won’t even let outsiders tamper with the platforms they’ve created!”
“Look what they’ve done to poor Adobe, yanking away their right to spend more than three years figuring out how to run Flash on mobile devices,” Segall writes. “Look what they’ve done to the world’s developers, telling them to write specifically for iPhone rather than just port over apps designed for less capable phones. Compounding their sin, they have the unrelenting gall to insist that apps meet some basic standards for quality and reliability. With their “our way or the highway” attitude, Apple takes choice away from customers, forcing them to settle for a library of only 225,000 apps.”
Much more in the full article – very highly recommended – here.
When he looks at genius through the eyes of envy, he calls it arrogance.
@m159 – duh
this is the best satire yet!
I love Apples arrogance! It’s called doing it right!
I am not a native english speaker, but is there any difference between arrogance and dignity? of pride? or confidence? or this article just screwed up the semantics?
Arrogance with a capital Apple! Great article.
mmmmm m159, you DO know humor when you see it, right?
@BurningZeppelin…
It’s a matter of context. In this context there is no difference between (perceived) arrogance and pride/dignity. Apple’s competitors want to change the context. However tens of millions of their happy customers won’t let them.
Well done satire and sarcasm is funny. This guy borders on the hysterical. Loved reading it.
Segall forgets that, as Steve Jobs pointed out, if people like Apple products they will buy them, if they don’t, they won’t!
“A” for Apple
“A” for Arrogance
This article get’s an “A” for “Alright!”
and i hope Apple never changes. the other-rans are arrogant without cause.
I love the T-shirt. Do you think they have one that will fit over my head?
I wasn’t aiming at the writer, but rather any of the “certain critics” he parodies.
Better to have said: “When some look….”
Too bad we can’t power the grid with sarcasm.
Arrogance before “The Fall”
The comments here prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that only 50% of MDN readers actually have a sense of humor.
@MacBill
That’s not funny.
Hey, I was halfway through that before I realized it was satire….it was written that straight. But it makes very good points.
Oh my goodness – I have tears coming out of my eyes from laughing so hard. And I’m in a public place
Cheers!
The link doesn’t work.
I cannot read the darn article…keep getting a server error…too bad, the satire looks funny as hell.
Wow, I think MDN just overwhelmed that blog’s servers. That might be a first. Forget Digg effect; it’s the MDN effect now!
Their server crashed. can’t link to the article. They need to upgrade the server to an Apple.
Even at DF, the link does not work.
One only had to get past the first few sentences to realize this is satire. I hope they fix the link; I do want to read the whole thing.