Thursday, October 06, 2011
Jobs
All the media are howling this morning over the body of an important Communist who shipped lots of American jobs to China.
They ought to be howling over the dead jobs, not the dead Jobs.
In 1983 my employer required me to buy an Apple II. Tried it, hated it, sold it. Replaced it with a Radio Shack Color Computer, which was vastly cheaper, more flexible, and easier to use. Since then I haven't owned anything with the Apple brand, haven't owned, handled or needed a Portable Cellular Telephone or any of the manifold variations on Portable Cellular Telephones. I use a real telephone about once a month, and that's enough jibber-jabber for me.
I'll grant you that the Mac was a tremendous advance, but it wasn't Apple's invention. It was developed by Xerox. ¶ 5:36 AM
They ought to be howling over the dead jobs, not the dead Jobs.
In 1983 my employer required me to buy an Apple II. Tried it, hated it, sold it. Replaced it with a Radio Shack Color Computer, which was vastly cheaper, more flexible, and easier to use. Since then I haven't owned anything with the Apple brand, haven't owned, handled or needed a Portable Cellular Telephone or any of the manifold variations on Portable Cellular Telephones. I use a real telephone about once a month, and that's enough jibber-jabber for me.
I'll grant you that the Mac was a tremendous advance, but it wasn't Apple's invention. It was developed by Xerox. ¶ 5:36 AM
