God knows I don’t want to sound like my grandfather, particularly today, but as you know, I just got a new computer. Do you remember when computers came with manuals, you know, with real information in them? You bought a TRS-80, and you got a CP/M manual. You bought a PC, and you got a PC-DOS (or IBM-DOS, if it was an IBM box), later, an MS-DOS manual. With either, you got a BASIC manual. Remember?
Today, computers come with a diagrams-only setup sheet, and for those who have a 100-word vocabulary, a miniscule setup book, with diagrams and a handful of basic sentences. They come with no information. None at all.
It’s the MacIntosh Moron factor. You don’t need to know anything — just click on the happy face! Steve Jobs has done more to dumb down this country than any other single human being. Sure, Gates helped when he jumped on the GUI Idiot Box train, but it was Jobs and the MacIntosh computer for idiots.
God, how I despise Steve Jobs and Apple. When Jobs dies, there will be a special circle in Hell just for him.
Jeffrey Quick says:
Jobs in Hell? Now I should be grumpy!
March 29, 2008, 1:44 pmIt’s nor GUI so much as globalization. It’s too much trouble to do a manual for every language, and you lose friends when you give them “Chinglish” or some other mistranslation. So you get pictures that don’t rely on language, or even having to read (that’s where the Internet experience is headed, eventually….consider how many news sites are now posting you-tubes of news broadcasts instead of the news itself). I think that ultimately Apple’s role in the Endarkenment will be small to nonexistent.