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iPod, therefore i Am. Steve Jobs may want to reconsider.

Posted on 07/18/2004 3:37:54 PM PDT by klimeckg

If you have not seen the cover of Newsweek, it shows the face of Steve Jobs of Apple computer holding an iPod. The heading reads: iPod, therefore i Am. Now this was not as blatant as John Lennon saying that the Beatles were greater than Jesus Christ, but it comes very close. If one recalls, John Lennon did not live a long life. And it is reported that Wang computers fell due to such boasting. I am told that Mr. Wang put his name in big letters on the top of the Wang building in Boston. When asked why he did this, he said he wanted all to know who Wang was. Shortly after this, he died and his son took over and that was the end of Wang computers.

So, when I see commerce using the scriptures to promote themselves I track the time and see what befalls them. Now, whether Mr. Jobs said this or simply allowed Newsweek to use the line I do not know, but he must have approved of it. My brother worked for Apple and has a few stories to tell about Mr. Jobs' character and person which are not at all surprising, but are not the warm fuzzy feelings one would think of the Apple CEO. I am not surprised to see Mr. Jobs building his Babylonian tower to the heavens in defiance and making such claims. I am curious to see how things pan out from this day forward.

-Klimeckg


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To: GWTexan

AS opposed to the boards of Microsoft ,Intel ,AMD,Dell ,and all the rest...come on there ain't a high tech company out there who's baord isn't full of lefties...you must be resorting to pencil and paper...so I guess you will be terminating all Net access as well?


61 posted on 07/18/2004 4:32:57 PM PDT by jnarcus
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To: VadeRetro
I'm not ...

I'm means "I am" and that means you're doomed! Everyone who says "I am" is doomed.

62 posted on 07/18/2004 4:33:00 PM PDT by PatrickHenry (#26,303, never suspended, over 186 threads posted.)
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To: Beelzebubba

Well based on your sign in name, I can see why.


63 posted on 07/18/2004 4:33:16 PM PDT by klimeckg ("The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.")
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To: klimeckg
klimeckg (so it is written, so shall it be) wrote: "he is claiming himself a god.. and those that make strong claims in public eventually get judged before the final judgement."


thems some mighty strong claims, hun, and this is a mighty public place. and maybe your god wants to do its own judging. get the rain forest out of your eye.

64 posted on 07/18/2004 4:33:52 PM PDT by eleven_eleven (canadia = land of nothing)
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To: Petronski
The iPod sucess is going to be difficult for Apple to substain. Besides the iPod, Apple doesn't have anything else that is growing. I have an iPod myself (1st generation) and using it in a car is kind of a pain. I did a road trip from California to Montana over the 4th of July weekend and got a chance to listen to a good number of the songs burnt onto iPod - there are about 40 CDs worth. Put it on random pick and let the hours slip by. There were some numbers played that I'd forgotten about. Compare that to a 6 CD changer. Using that round dial while driving is downright distracting.

Much superior and much simpler carrying around one's music collection without hassle. With a bigger hard drive, one will be able to carry around books on tape, and even movies to plug into a local device - be it someone else's house, or the back seat of the minivan for the kids to watch.

That said, iPod like devices will be commodifed soon. It's inevitable. Does anybody think that General Motors, Toyota or Ford is going let some company get a royalty stream going on their products? I don't. It would surprise me greatly if something wasn't in the works as we speak.

As for Steve Jobs, he just another guy. His strengths are that he understands that being nice doesn't get the job done, and that underneath the facade, he knows that he is just another guy. Big ego thogh :-)

65 posted on 07/18/2004 4:34:04 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: -YYZ-

Dunno. My batteries have worked fine, and, I use my iPods (one for the wife) a lot.


66 posted on 07/18/2004 4:34:06 PM PDT by MrLee
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To: MrLee
I bought the first generation ipod. 6 months later, after a long jog, I left it on my car as I drove away. After watching it hit the pavement at 50 miles per hour in my rear view mirror, I spent about 20 minutes retrieving as much of the Ipod as I could and put it back together.

IT RATTLES A BIT BUT IT STILL WORKS TO THIS DAY!!

Bravo for the Ipod.

67 posted on 07/18/2004 4:34:45 PM PDT by zarf
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To: klimeckg

He isn't caliming to be God or anything else...this is a title put out by a slick back magazine...To confuse ego eime with cogito ergo sum suggests that you are more than a little unhinged....Perhaps you should just go get the tin foil hat and worry abot yourself.


68 posted on 07/18/2004 4:35:33 PM PDT by jnarcus
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To: gargoyle

Boy was I wrong: I thought it was Lenin who said even G-d wouldn't buy the Beatles music.


69 posted on 07/18/2004 4:35:40 PM PDT by mabelkitty
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To: PatrickHenry
Everyone who says "I am" is doomed.

Are you sure?

70 posted on 07/18/2004 4:35:52 PM PDT by VadeRetro
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To: eleven_eleven

The far left is quite a way off. Why would you imply that I AM a liberal? no pun intended.


71 posted on 07/18/2004 4:36:22 PM PDT by klimeckg ("The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.")
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To: klimeckg
Yes, I have been told that already.

Well, at least you're getting a lot of replies. ;-} That's better than being ignored.
72 posted on 07/18/2004 4:36:26 PM PDT by aruanan
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To: AQGeiger
He was a Catholic to the end.
74 posted on 07/18/2004 4:37:37 PM PDT by Tribune7
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To: ptrey

I doubt it. There doesn't appear to be any connection between what Descartes was getting at and the formula for God.


75 posted on 07/18/2004 4:39:09 PM PDT by maro
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To: GWTexan

Then you better look carefully at bill Gates and Paul Allen...if you dislike gore that much these guys whould have you equally as worried


76 posted on 07/18/2004 4:40:03 PM PDT by jnarcus
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To: klimeckg

Rene Descartes walks into a bar.

The bartender says, "Hey, Bub, ya want a beer?"

Descartes responds, "I think not."

POOF! He disappears.


77 posted on 07/18/2004 4:40:35 PM PDT by yianni (Mit der Dummheit, kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens.)
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To: PatrickHenry
Everyone who says "I am" is doomed.

Neil ("I Am" I Said) Diamond is doubly damned, but that was probably true anyway.

78 posted on 07/18/2004 4:40:42 PM PDT by VadeRetro
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To: jnarcus

Maybe i-theca ergo sum?

(theca=envelope or covering)


79 posted on 07/18/2004 4:40:59 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (I want to die in my sleep like Gramps -- not yelling and screaming like those in his car)
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To: GWTexan

Look at it this way, I get to vote against Al Gore EVERY time the stockholders have a vote!! Love putting an X in that NO box next to his name!!


80 posted on 07/18/2004 4:41:35 PM PDT by MrLee
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