Once again, the influence of Jose el Retardo flexes its muscle, and giants fall: first we took the military to task and triumphed magnificently (click here to read up), and now we reap the benefits of coming out from behind an iron curtain of fear when we snatched (sexy word alert) the magnanimous mask from Steve Jobs smarmy, lying face (read the original article here).
What’s happening, you ask? This morning our editorial staff was tipped off by our good friends over at the Medium Happiness headquarters about an article coming out in none other than WIRED magazine decrying Steve Jobs as an evil genius, and shedding even more light on his less-than-revolutionary business practices. Check out some of this goodness by clicking here.
You have to wonder if someone over at Wired is a loyal follower of Jose el Retardo. If so, fantastic; the more, the merrier on this crazy roller-coaster ride we like to call THE TRUTH.
Just to give you a tidbit of what was uncovered by Wired Magazine when Job’s veil of bullshit was torn:
Everybody is familiar with Google’s famous catchphrase, “Don’t be evil.” It has become a shorthand mission statement for Silicon Valley, encompassing a variety of ideals that — proponents say — are good for business and good for the world: Embrace open platforms. Trust decisions to the wisdom of crowds. Treat your employees like gods.
It’s ironic, then, that one of the Valley’s most successful companies ignored all of these tenets. Google and Apple may have a friendly relationship — Google CEO Eric Schmidt sits on Apple’s board, after all — but by Google’s definition, Apple is irredeemably evil, behaving more like an old-fashioned industrial titan than a different-thinking business of the future. Apple operates with a level of secrecy that makes Thomas Pynchon look like Paris Hilton. It locks consumers into a proprietary ecosystem. And as for treating employees like gods? Yeah, Apple doesn’t do that either.
Looks like another untouchable is beginning to crumble under the weight of the entire Retardo staff’s mighty disdain.
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My ipod, google tool bar, and I were crushed under the weight of your guilt. I am shamed!
Forgive the bitter soccer mom mighty Jose!
Makes Thomas Pynchon look like…Ha ha ha.
Seven months ago I was involuntarily switched to a MAC from a PC at work and I was a little ambivalent. Low and behold, over the coming months I would slowly shed my distaste for MACs, I was actually very close to buying an iMAC around Christmas. But then, about a month ago, I started reading how the newer generation of iPods actually sound worse than their predecessors, so I started to say to myself, maybe I should give a Zune a try: a) it supports any media format and b) it sounds better than an iPod. And then I remembered, fuck me, I have purchased a ton of music off of iTunes over the past few years, and guess what? They are DRM music files. In other words, the files are worthless if I’m not using iTunes.
This did more than chap my ass; it made me hate Apple, again. And, now, I read this piece about Steve Jobs and how he’s a megalomaniacal, tyrannical, mock turtleneck, wearing ass clown. I would love to kick him in the balls.
Hey if Steve Job’s bites your ass would it hurt?
I have i-tunes, but I get my music from else where (for free….shhh don’t tell) and just put it in my i-tunes library. That way I can burn cd’s, send songs to people and put it on other players if I want.
See Jose…I am stickin it to Steve Jobs. I have 817 songs in my i-tunes library and 90% were NOT bought from i-tunes!!!
I am such a rebel
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I stand by my earlier comment to say that Jose has a 6th sense for topics in the news. It goes well beyond simple influence. Jose controls the universe. Remarkable.