“Earlier this month I sold my 11.6-inch MacBook Air (using Samsung Series 5 Chromebook now) and iPhone 4 (switched back to Google Nexus S),” Joe Wilcox hit-whores for Betanews. “I don’t miss either Apple product. Not the least bit. In reflecting, I realize that the spell is broken. Without Apple Chairman Steve Jobs driving innovation or inspiring passion — the oft-called ‘reality distortion field’ — my Apple enthusiasm is gone. Perhaps it’s return to sanity.”
I should have connected the dots sooner, but often people don’t easily apply even basic math to emotional matters, because the nuances move swiftly on the surface with many slower currents and fast-churning eddies below. The ocean is an excellent analogy. Yesterday, in viewing Nate Mook’s slideshow of 20 products introduced by Jobs, and resurfacing emotions about the different launches,” Wilcox blathers insipidly. “I had an epiphany. I could see how much Jobs’ passion infected mine — his ability to inspire about what Apple products offered.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Seriously, Joe, if you’re this desperate for hits, you’re doing something wrong. Betanews, if this is intended to be satire, hire a better writer next time.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Jimmy W.” for the heads up.]
I like stupidity (Wilcox’s) and his playing with distorted reality and who really cares wheather he uses Mac or not – really! You can never make sense out of stupitidy – just enjoy or pity it, but never try to make any sense out of it, because you never can.
Wow, that was a super lame editorial.
No mention on what he is replacing his macbook air or iphone 4 with. Probably because the only options are apple product knockoffs (like windows and android)
Or maybe he is such a flaccid loser that he was only using apple products in first place because he though steve jobs was cool. Some people do like Apple because it’s trendy, ignorant about how impressive the technology actually is. Good riddance, if that’s the case. Apple doesn’t need ignorant losers who only want apple products to be trendy. They don’t contribute to apple’s culture.
Good for you Joe . . . ya dingbat!
And your point is?
“And now we take to live to the sleepy little village of Binding-in-the-Marsh for the finals of the World Village Idiot competition…”
“in third place, Osric Throssinton for his immaculate headlong dive into a threshing machine whilst dressed as a Dagenham Girl Piper.
“In second place, Jethro Scruttock for swimming ten lengths of Farmer Blenkinsop’s slurry pit without benefit of either water wings or clergy and whilst consuming an entire gallon of Laidlaw’s brand Goat Purge.
“in first place, and by a country mile, Joe Wilcox for his unparalleled ability to spout complete and utter bullshit while keeping a straight face.”
=:~)
What a pathetic excuse for a “journalist”, and sadly, for a “sentient human being”.
I am reminded of the sleazy character in “The Ten Commandments” who tries to convince the naive and ignorant to worship his Golden Idol false god, while Moses is busy on the mountaintop with the real deal.
Wilcox, please go slither under the slimy rock from whence you came. You have learned nothing about Apple in your 68 years of de-evolution on earth. It is impossible for an invertebrate to experience “an Epiphany.”
Well, way back when, I had played on Macs. Then, I a Mac Plus a friend lent me. At the time, I knew very little about Steve Jobs. Later, I bought my own Mac SE, I still knew very little about Steve Jobs and I did not know he’d had been fired from Apple. It wasn’t until he started NeXT computers that I studied more closely. Either way, I still bought Macs all through out the dark times of Apple. When Steve Jobs came back, I bought Apple again. I have two Macs and an iPhone. I’ve used Windows machines as well and used Linux as well. I don’t need someone to tell me what to buy, I buy what I like. I just so happen to like Macs. Period.
If a person makes silly statements like it was only because of Steve Jobs is the reason why they bought a Mac, then they need to retool their brain. Because, that’s makes them sound lame.
I think most people here are missing the big picture, which Joe states in his first sentence: “Earlier this month I sold my 11.6-inch MacBook Air (using Samsung Series 5 Chromebook now) and iPhone 4 (switched back to Google Nexus S).” Uh, Steve had not resigned “earlier this month,” so, essentially he is a liar.