Zanzibar19 discovers magic secret of Apple, Steve Jobs
One of the fun aspects of having a little Internet show like SNOWMEN HUNTERS is Ryan and I are kind of forced to pay attention to the main ways our viewers watch the show. This means of course, we have to get new iPods with every updated generation. Yes, it’s… it’s a very tough life (that can melt your plastic credit cards if you don’t watch yourself, but I digress…)
Of course, we were twitching in anticipation of the iPhone announcement, and Ryan said something that really revealed the difference between Steve Jobs, Apple, and well, everybody/everyone/everything else who make computers/phones/etc.
“Jobs just does the obvious,” he said, as the highest compliment. As we both watched the updated blog on Engadget, it became obvious the legendary Apple magic is they do what everyone else does, but they just do it right. THERE IS NO MAGIC PEOPLE. It’s just a guy who pushes until stuff is cool. Until it’s good. Until it at least doesn’t suck. He doesn’t settle for the usual computer-engineer-instruction-book-wasteland most tech companies do.
How many of us have wanted an MP3 player to just plain work easily? How many have just wanted a phone that’s not a total pain in the ass to use? Um, everyone? And who breaks the ground in making the cool bells and whistles of tech easy to use? Jobs, and Apple. He doesn’t rest until how to find a song, how to make a call, how to open a file is OBVIOUS to someone who’s just picked up whatever gadget Apple has created. He does the favor to his customers of making his stuff easy to use. Thanks, Mr. Jobs.
Yes, this is already a love-fest for Jobs, so just ask this in your life and you’ll be more of a bad-ass: What would Steve do? We would, but he’d probably not spend his time making a show about hunting snowmen, but don’t do as we do, do as we say. We’re lovable hypocrites like that.
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