Nerds vs the new Apple

Posted on October 11, 2007 
Filed Under Programming

All the nerds I know, which is pretty much everyone, are all pissed-off at Apple due to the much publicized iPhone bricking. Personally I think there is mass confusion here in the geekosphere. When Apple did nothing but sell computers it existed for and was powered by we nerds. Apple was the in-crowd’s alternative to the evil empire. That was then this is now. Now Linux is do-it-yourselfers’ OS, and Mac OS, perish the thought, is becoming main stream. My Dad, not a computer scientist, has even traded in his Windows laptop for a MacBook.

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Face it, Apple’s has moved beyond targeting the nerds and is targeting the mass market by creating the best high tech devices the world has ever seen. First it was the iPod then iPhone now iTouch… These things are -not- meant to be hacked they are meant to be the best purpose-built functional appliances obtainable. The best music player, best phone, best media player, and best whatchamacallit on the market for the -average- user. Ironically this means -removing- choice. This means it, whatever -it- is,will not do everything but it will do the thing it does do very well. If you don’t like what it does buy something else. If you want to hack something, buy a mp3 player or phone that runs Linux. Apple isn’t targeting the nerds and we need to get over it and move on.

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2 Responses to “Nerds vs the new Apple”

  1. Tom on October 12th, 2007 9:45 pm

    This one looks pretty good to me: http://www.openmoko.com

  2. Steve loves us, he really loves us : Tom Gissel @ singlethreaded.org on October 17th, 2007 8:00 pm

    […] I admit it. I may have been wrong about Apple not caring about us nerds. Steve now says: We want native third party applications on […]

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