Comments on: Steve Jobs Disses BlackBerry, Google, and 7-inch Tablets

By: epwave

epwave — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 01:25:10 +0000

What’s wrong with Jobs in his tablet and android bashing? although I must admit that his calculation of the screen of the galaxy tab is closer (46.4% only compared to the ipad considering the borders is uniform around the screen). You cannot just get the square of the ratio of the diagonals since the screens are not square. Sorry, the old geek is closer than your calculation. But anyway, still what’s going on with him? Is that a new or old apple strategy?

By: richardsrussell

richardsrussell — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:03:45 +0000

Is that a recent picture of Steve Jobs? Last time I saw him, mere months ago, he was gaunt to the point of Dachau-level emaciation. Either he’s been chowing down on deep-fried cheese curds at every opportunity since then or Techland delved deep into its collection of stock photos for this one.

By the way, Steve, 7/10 squared is 49%, not 45%. I know you always tend to err in favor of Apple, but would it really have killed you to say “about half as big” instead of shaving that extra 4% off? What, you think we’re too dumb to do the math ourselves?

By: chimparzan

chimparzan — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 15:45:27 +0000

On the consumer level many people do think windows when thinking about an open computer, mostly because to the average consumer every comparison comes to mac v. pc.

By: rdupuy

rdupuy — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 14:00:25 +0000

What would spook me a bit, as an investor, is Steve seems to be acting erratic too.

Arguing with developers. Arguing with college students. Then yesterday:

quoting Jobs “The first thing most of us think about when we hear the word ‘open’ is Windows”

Uhm – what? We think “the window was left open” is that what he meant? LOL

It’s just hilarious because he’s talking about open source, of course, and the only people that care about that are programmers, and I don’t think they think of Windows, but Linux or Android – that’s more commonly associated with open source.

By: jstohler

jstohler — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 13:57:32 +0000

Oooo — every handset works the same? That’s great, because as we all know every user is identical. Thank you, Steve Jobs, for treating us all like robots.

By: Jacobian

Jacobian — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 13:48:15 +0000

couldn’t agree more.hearing it from the great innovator himself I think it’s fair to say that he deserves a credit for everything he conveyed to us.