“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.
“@m159 – duh
this is the best satire yet!”
Absolutely. The sarcasm just oozes throughout the article.
I still say the html needs a sarcasm tag.
Google’s cached page:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/mac?q=cache:f1WqAFAyJXQJ:kensegall.com/blog/+the-ever-arrogant-apple&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
You can control, monopolize, and be arrogant when you have the best and complete solution products for the average Joe. M$ tried it on multiple 3rd party conglomerations of hardware and software and forgot to invent the best product.
The guy who wrote this is your typical hard left O’ voter. He’s lost and is delusional and angry, yet secretly loves what Apple creates.
google cache:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://kensegall.com/blog/2010/07/the-ever-arrogant-apple/
@geo: A typical T-partier who doesn’t “get” satire. Subtlety and nuance are not big items on that agenda.
@geo,
Check your sense of humor you idiot, or go back to school and learn the meaning of Sarcasm.
Then trying to interject a political view that has no ties with the article at all, This is pathetic.
geo, get a life or go outside and talk to real people once and awhile, your or are you a classic closet case.
Are most of these dim witted posters more then 13 years of age or just Apple haters that have a day off from stocking the local supermarket for lonely housewife’s.
Holy cow, just reading this thread and seeing the people that don’t get sarcasm is a bit scary.
@geo
We know who you are, as defined by your observations of others.
Imagine that, we’re all thinking you must be the polar opposite of the very thing you describe.
Sucks to be you, whatever it is!
@Ringgo
Thanks for the Google cache link.
That was hysterically funny.
@geo
You do know that was satire, right?
Arrogance is not arrogance when you ACTUALLY ARE BETTER THAN EVERYONE ELSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s like my crusty old grandfather used to say…
“Son, it ain’t bragging if you can do it. Them’s called facts!”
BurningZeppelin writes:
“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?”
NOPE, Burning, arrogance is not a form of dignity. Rather it is a form of stupidity or irrationality. It is expressing complete confidence in success when the situation calls for the rational person to calculate the costs and probabilities of failure.
Sitenseems to be down. Here’s the Google cache link I got from Daring Fireball:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://kensegall.com/blog/2010/07/the-ever-arrogant-apple/
The best part about articles of satire is the inevitable posts from readers who don’t get it.
It’s very entertaining.
@Confuzed 1
+1
Quit crying people. Apple gave you the option for a free bumper, but they also gave the option of returning it with a full refund. So return your iPhone 4, put a fresh diaper on and go buy a Droid you baby faggot. Oh and make sure thats a pacifier in your mouth and not a cock.
Ah… I get it… cute
So true, and the gall of them making hardware that runs an OS without driver conflicts and DLL version crashes. They are single handedly putting tech support and computer repair out of business. Not to mention all the extra work we must do now that I can effectively check email, calendar, multiple project manager systems, my crm, and even modify my web sites from my phone or that so convent iPad. No I’m working all the time!! I’ve lost all my excuses!
Well, at least we’re all making more money now that we’re productive! Damn u Apple for making success so easy! I work for the challenges!
“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.”
Insisting on quality and reliability? How odd!
> Then came iPad, where Apple’s arrogantly arrogant take on arrogance was laid bare for all to see.
Pretty funny stuff. I wish more companies were as “arrogant” as Apple.
A joke.
Good work.
It must be hard not to be arrogant when you are the only one who does anything right.
MDN magic word “Faith” as in “I have faith in Apple’s abilities.”
Finally, someone who can think and write sarcasm properly!
If anyone is arrogant, it’s Microsoft. They had a chance to change for the better and blew it.
Anyone know why Apple removed the Field Test App?
Absolutely brilliant, heard AAPL is buying up all the 5″ & 7″ touch displays they can get their hands on…. Also heard AAPL is deep in AI research. Wonder what were are going to see from this most arrogant, innovative, non-status quo corp…. such pure unmitigated gall to step outside the norm… Steve Jobs should be ashamed, making all these terribly useful, stellar personal electronics. And defying death in the process.
‘Ye who dies with the most personal electronics, is the winner..”
Yes, I am a long time AAPL share holder….. Steve has made me sooooo much money the past few years….
All you whiners out there can bad mouth AAPL all you want, I’m laughing all the way to the bank…..
“certain critics quickly concluded that Apple was acting like its usual arrogant self…”
I couldn’t agree LESS.
Arrogant = Adobe lying to the world about it’s failed Flash technology in the face of Apple’s facts to the contrary.
Arrogant = Smartphone companies lying to the world about their superiority in antenna technology in the face of Apple’s facts to the contrary.
Sorry folks: Speaking FACT to FAIL does NOT constitute ‘arrogance’.
It’s ALL THE OTHER companies who are arrogant by SELLING CRAP to their customers, calling it ‘innovative’.
Customers have caught on. Thus Apple’s ascendance. DEAL WITH IT.
Bitch bitvh bitch why don’t you
@Derek
Uh, hello? Derek? You okay? You did get that this article was satire, right? As in, the author is praising Apple and slamming the other guys?
Why is apple so arrogant, I mean I’m a fan of their company, and I love their products, but seriously, the product prices are too much. If apple charged the same for their products as the average pc company, or phone company then, they would lead the market. I’m 14 and my family has all sorts of apple products,
http://www.articlesbase.com/computers-articles/parental-control-a-complete-parental-control-software-review-2130892.html
@bushmolten
It’s okay, kid. Someday you’ll understand.
BTW, MoltenBush would be a much mor interesting handle.
Again, someday you’ll understand.
@Mr. Reeee- Ha!
The article is satire folks – tongue in cheek.
The only thing that would make this article better is to have John Cleese read it out loud.
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I have a feeling he’s being facetious…
Great stuff! And thanks for helping me discover a great blog that I didn’t know about. Ken Segall is a very intelligent writer and hits on everything about marketing and branding that interests me.
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