Spot the Idiot: BusinessWeek’s Roger L. Kay
by moose
Apple’s Icarus Effect:
But now Apple is becoming a victim of its own success, and the irony is just too great to miss. Anyone with a mild sense of history is keeping track. The main reason Apple had been left alone by hackers was not by virtue of any superior security technology, the company’s protestations to the contrary notwithstanding.
Oh! my! GOD!
And all these years I’ve been hiding my head under the pillow, thinking I was well protected.
Quick, run, let’s all go and buy Symantec’s amazing must-have antivirus software… no wait, Virex is better or ah maybe surgery would work better.
I can’t believe the argument of security through obscurity is still alive and kicking.
And this other bit about the 30% cut Apple is planning to take on apps sold through the App store is a jewel:
Taking such a large cut just for distributing software is no more generous a policy than any coming out of Microsoft. Everyone is rooting for the hackers to win
Ohhhhh so hackers are the new robin hoods? They’re gonna smack Apple for being so proud… go hackers go!
In-cre-di-ble, I could quote the whole article actually.
Note: I had a hard time deciding who would star this “Spot the Idiot”: Roger L. Kay or Wired’s Leander Kahney.
March 20th, 2008 at 14:50 CET
OK moose, you are right about this one. But the Kahney article is really worth reading, mostly objective and critical in a good sense. After all he says that Jobs has done everything right, although with the “wrong == nonconformist” methods.
I am an Apple evangelist since the days of the Apple II, own a couple of Macs and I must say that I agree with Kahney in most of his findings.
What was your objection agains his article ?
Greetings,
Bernhard
March 20th, 2008 at 17:52 CET
Well, it’s the whole tone of Kahney, the way he writes his stuff, a bit like he’s fighting against the Great Evil and bringing truth to the masses.
That plus there are some seriously wrong assumptions in his pieces. Like “don’t do evil” has nothing to do with Google’s internal policies regarding employees and such, it’s related to what they do with the DATA they collect.
Plus Apple has been around for way longer than Google, so it’s a bit weird stating that Apple hasn’t followed Google’s “way”…
I decided to let Kahney’s piece aside because John Gruber wrote a great “jackass” post on it, and it couldn’t be better done…