{"id":189249,"date":"2010-04-30T09:31:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T14:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/04\/30\/jon-stewart12-steve-jobs0\/"},"modified":"2010-04-30T09:31:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T14:31:00","slug":"jon-stewart12-steve-jobs0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/04\/30\/jon-stewart12-steve-jobs0\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Stewart:12 &#8211; Steve Jobs:0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; width: 360px; float: right; text-align: center;\"><embed style=\"display: block;\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:307953\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"window\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"autoPlay=false\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allownetworking=\"all\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" height=\"301\" width=\"360\"><\/embed><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Brutal!<\/span><\/div>\n<p>The interesting thing here is that it&#8217;s actually pretty clear that Jon Stewart is a <del>big fan<\/del> huge <span>fanboi<\/span> of Apple<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> Computer and its products, and his take-down of Apple&#8217;s actions in the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span>Gismodo<\/span><\/span> iPhone prototype case is even more brutal because of it:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>It wasn&#8217;t supposed to be this way. Microsoft was supposed to be the evil  one. But now you guys are busting down doors in <span>Palo<\/span> Alto, while  commandant Gates is ridding the world of mosquitoes. What the f**k is  going on? It is all mixed up. I don&#8217;t know which end is up anymore.  Black is white. Cats are dogs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>His point is that a large part of the appeal of products from Apple<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> is that it is, in some manner, sticking it to the man, and that now they <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">are<\/span> the man.<\/p>\n<p>He also notes that in its corporate paranoia, Apple<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> ignores the real threats to its products:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>I mean, if you wanna break down <span>someone&#8217;s<\/span> door, why don&#8217;t you start with AT&amp;T, for God sakes? They make your amazing phone unusable as a phone! I mean, seriously! How do you drop four calls in a one-mile stretch of the West Side Highway! <span>There&#8217;re<\/span> no buildings around! What, does the open space confuse AT&amp;T&#8217;s signal?!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Brutal, particularly when he invokes Apple<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>&#8216;s iconic 1984 ad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brutal! The interesting thing here is that it&#8217;s actually pretty clear that Jon Stewart is a big fan huge fanboi of Apple\u00ae Computer and its products, and his take-down of Apple&#8217;s actions in the Gismodo iPhone prototype case is even more brutal because of it: It wasn&#8217;t supposed to be this way. Microsoft was supposed &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1067,1090,1129,1028,1025,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communications","category-ethics","category-journalism","category-people-i-do-not-want-to-piss-off","category-technology","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}