Posted on 05/18/2010 10:33:04 PM PDT by It's me
CUPERTINO, California, May 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computers, says his company will not be a party to the pornography industry and hopes that the iPad and iPhone revolution will help lead to a porn-free world.
Jobs reiterated his position in a heated e-mail exchange with Ryan Tate, a writer for Gawker.com, which follows news and gossip in Silicon Valley and elsewhere. Tate, who admitted that he was home alone and slightly inebriated at the time, took issue with a television ad calling the iPad a “revolution” and fired off an e-mail to Jobs.
“If Dylan [American songwriter Bob Dylan is one of Jobs’ favorite musicians] was 20 today, how would he feel about your company? Would he think the iPad had the faintest thing to do with ‘revolution?’ Revolutions are about freedom,” Tate wrote, not expecting a response from Jobs.
However, Jobs did respond to Tate, triggering an e-mail duel. “Yep, freedom from programs that steal your private data. Freedom from programs that trash your battery. Freedom from porn. Yep, freedom,” responded Jobs. “The times they are a changin’, and some traditional PC folks feel like their world is slipping away. It is.”
However, Tate accused Jobs of "imposing" his "morality" by having Apple forbid pornographic applications for iPad. “I don’t want ‘freedom from porn.’ Porn is just fine! And I think my wife would agree,” fired back Tate - who later said he regretted mentioning his wife.
Jobs shot back, “You might care more about porn when you have kids.”
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Yes, I used to have my Radio License also...seems so long ago... Heh, don’t get me started on the 555 timer... I was more of a hardware person early on, then elevated (my words) into a software person...heh. Yes, I was fixing hardware when the idea of a transistor or integrated circuit was developed. The Crypto equipment that I originally worked with was tube...
Yes, there are a few of us still available old fogies still around, but the transistor is a thing of the past, as far as manufacturer is concerned - I’m talking during bad times. That kind of thing will be the first thing lost in the new world.
Yes, that kind of skills were transformed into mico controller programming or worse. I was trying to say that the way society is going today, all of those skills would be useless without electricity or other niceties of today.
The future is not so set as you might think...
Have a good one...
That is an age-old lament that has been circulating for generations. My own father used to go around muttering what us "young-uns" would do without pocket calculators, transistor radios and all that other stuff he didn't grow up with when he was a kid. I can imagine a conversation between father and son going something like this back in 1892...
"Why back in my day son, we didn't have all these fancy things like e-lectric lights and telegraphs. No-sir-ee, why back in my day, we used to hafta navigate around at night with torches and if we had to get a message to somebody, why we had to jump on our horse and deliver the message ourselves!"
There has always been a notion with us older folk that the younger generation would simply curl up in a fetal position and die if the "modern conveniences" of life were ever taken away from them.
I think as we get older and our own physical capabilities start to deteriorate, we like to think ourselves as hardier and tougher than the generation that is replacing us.
The reality is however, that human beings are most adaptable and should our modern world crumble before us for whatever reason and our electrical infrastructure is gone, our young people will quickly adapt to it (and much faster than us older folk) even if they can't Google how to plant a corn field or gut a fish.
Sure, there will be some major disruption and a lot of weaker people will die off...that would happen in any civilization during any era, but the notion that young people would be powerless to help themselves is simply a romantic notion that older people tend to have.
BTW, the "weaker people" that I speak of in the previous paragraph? That would typically be people over the age of 55.
Heh, a bit older, but only by a few years...
Heh, well sorry, but with EMP, we are all doomed anyway...
Jobs doesn’t want a dedicated porn app in the Apple Store because it puts the Apple imprimatur upon pornography. Pornography is widely available to those who want it, without Apple sullying itself by direct association.
Does Google have porn apps in their store?
As far as your stereotyping of Apple customers, where does Rush Limbaugh fit, are you saying Rush is gay, lol? He’s sure not an urban hipster, a student, a woman or an artistic type.
There are many successful businessmen who utilize Apple computers in their businesses, and there are even more who prefer Apple in their personal lives but who are trapped in Windows world for their businesses, because of the FUD purveyed by their gold-plated in-house IS priesthood looking to protect their floozy little obsolete jobs.
Yes, you’re right... If anything I might be a guidance counselor...to my son... heh.
I have a ‘07 macbook. I’ve upgraded the ram, hard drive & repaired a dead exhaust fan myself. Zero money paid to Apple for the upgrade or the repair.
Also have a 2009 Mac Mini. I’ve upgraded the hard drive & and the ram myself. Zero money paid to Apple for these upgrades.
Yes, all true, but I doubt that any of you see what is coming...
I’ve begun to think that the EMP threat is greatly overplayed. For those within a close radius, dead cars, dead computers and sheer mayhem. For the country as a whole? Power grid issues at most, which is bad enough, but not TEOTWAWKI.
It’s the knowledge that has not been passed down through the education system that is the missing link... Mainly survival skills. So many today would have no idea how to survive without electricity, food and water...
Jack, don’t waste your time with freeDUMB. Calling him/her a sophomore gives him too much credit. His tagline still makes no sense even after I corrected it for him and posted the original parable to prove the point.
Save the bandwidth.
Really, it is the power grid that is important. The rest is just an inconvenience... It would take months or years to restore and that is the real problem.
Ah, you are one of those PC people, upgrade yourself and have knowledge. You are not the normal Apple user...
Why would a frog want to ride a scorpion? I don’t think it would even fit and would certainly get stung, no surprise there.
I’ve understood that substations and transformers installed in the past decade at least are “hardened,” so the extent of even that wouldn’t be as great as some seem to think.
Nude sketches are not porn.
That’s even more reason for our family to buy Apple products.
( Or...would you like the government to take that freedom away from us?)
Steve Jobs can do what he wants with his business. If you want porn, you can find it without him.
No, they would be the first to burn out... The worst part is that there are almost no backups (because they should almost never fail). If you have ever had a transformer blow in your local community, you should know that it takes several days to get a replacement - sometimes weeks. That is because they are specially built to different specifications.
Now take that knowledge and understand that if EMP blew several hundred or thousand of these transformers - how long would it take to replace.
It really is a problem. Even today, if a major transformer goes, it can take several days to replace. Multiply that by a thousand and you can see the problem.
They are not easy to manufacture but they are also not going to blow frequently, so they do not keep stock on hand.
They would have to manufacture them as needed (they do differ tremendously) and with out manufacturing today (or lack of I should say), how long do you think that it would take...?
Their numbers are few. I know this because Apple never has advertisements with businessmen or corporate types in them. But plenty with the young hip crowd in their advertisements
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