Poisoned Apple: iPhones and Steve Jobs — Disney Revisited?
In many ways Apple is the Teflon technology company. While Bill Gates is often cast as a slightly dorky Darth Vader and Microsoft as the evil Empire , his counterpart Steve Jobs is often portrayed as a yuppie guru and Apple as an almost spiritual enterprise. These simple caricatures have always ignored such details as Gates’s initiatives to bring vaccines to poor Africans which are, as of yet, without answer from Jobs. The Apple iPhone takes us through the looking glass to a place called Disney World. Our adventure may not be magical, but it will add additional perspective to the above oft-recited caricatures.
The Safari web browser on iPhone and iPod Touch is rapidly gain market share amongst mobile web users. The gain one comes despite the fact that the iPhone is an extra-ordinarily closed system. All software developed though Apple’s software development kit must be distributed through Apple, which then takes a 30 percent cut. Software development kits released for other operating systems do not require the developers to relinquish a cut. Apple is already apparently making editorial decisions, rejecting a “Pull my Finger” application. This system makes Bill Gates’s ,foul murderer of Netscape, look like Linus Torvalds.
Before we contemplate this Darkness at Dawn, we should consider who brought us to this potentiality. The character of Jobs is uniquely amenable to the Disney empire where he spends some little portion of his time. For, if the God’s time need not be bothered by the fact that Jobs and Walt Disney shared some years together in this benighted world, Jobs could very well be Disney re-incarnate.
Though the Disney World is often portrayed as the embodiment often the most fantastic dreams of Disney, the reality is that the project was born of rather meaner thoughts. Though Disneyland was an enormous economic success, there was a defect, a defect so dire that ate away at Disney’s very soul. Disneyland was located in the megaopolis that included Los Angeles. As hotels owned by others sprouted around Disneyland, Disney became obsessed with the lost income. In the end, those who don’t count themselves amongst the eccentric believers in cryogenics, say that despair over this lost income killed Disney– well that . . . and lung cancer.
Disney World was envisioned as a Magical Kingdom where all of Disney’s competitors were kept safely away. Nothing exists in or near Disney World without the express permission of the Disney corporation. Eventually Disney World reached such a state of totalitarian perfection that it was the only place in America that Nikita Khrushchev, Никита Сергеевич Хрущёв, wanted to see on his trip to America. It is one of the Cold War’s poignant little disappointments that this wish was not granted. In defiance of those self-regulating market fundamentalists, who say that monopolies contain the seeds of their own destruction, Disney World has been an unrelenting cash cow that has indeed been for many years the salvation of the Disney corporation. Read on »
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