10-09-2011, 08:05 PM
I just read[ ] The Macalope Weekly as saw a quote from Fry and came here to post it.
A day late, etc (although not quite).
One of my favorite phrases came from a dealchat/macresource souce, Bob maybe? I don't recall, but it's "...a graceful blend of style and substance". Whether that was the exact phrase or whether Bob's the author or your uncle, that's how I've long viewed Apple products touched by Jobs and his team.
Fry's quote:
Only dullards crippled into cretinism by a fear of being thought pretentious could be so dumb as to believe that there is a distinction between design and use, between form and function, between style and substance. If the unprecedented and phenomenal success of Steve Jobs at Apple proves anything it is that those commentators and tech-bloggers and “experts” who sneered at him for producing sleek, shiny, well-designed products or who denigrated the man because he was not an inventor or originator of technology himself missed the point in such a fantastically stupid way that any employer would surely question the purpose of having such people on their payroll, writing for their magazines or indeed making any decisions on which lives, destinies or fortunes depended.
And I love that Fry referenced "experts".
It always cracked me up when buffoons on parade jumped on the "iMac/iPod/iPhone/iPad/whatever Apple makes is evolutionary, not revolutionary" band wagon, because this bit here or that bit there "has already been done years ago by somebody else" blah, blah, blah. Nobody bothered to put the bits together or bothered doing so in a way that people realized worked for them.
One disturbing point of the Macalope's article is that some people used Job's death as an opportunity for link bait hate. Fortunately I've avoided running it to that, but I've ignored sources of "experts" who want to make fun of those who feel loss and sadness.
Fry is a great writer. It's not just the accent.
A day late, etc (although not quite).
One of my favorite phrases came from a dealchat/macresource souce, Bob maybe? I don't recall, but it's "...a graceful blend of style and substance". Whether that was the exact phrase or whether Bob's the author or your uncle, that's how I've long viewed Apple products touched by Jobs and his team.
Fry's quote:
Only dullards crippled into cretinism by a fear of being thought pretentious could be so dumb as to believe that there is a distinction between design and use, between form and function, between style and substance. If the unprecedented and phenomenal success of Steve Jobs at Apple proves anything it is that those commentators and tech-bloggers and “experts” who sneered at him for producing sleek, shiny, well-designed products or who denigrated the man because he was not an inventor or originator of technology himself missed the point in such a fantastically stupid way that any employer would surely question the purpose of having such people on their payroll, writing for their magazines or indeed making any decisions on which lives, destinies or fortunes depended.
And I love that Fry referenced "experts".
It always cracked me up when buffoons on parade jumped on the "iMac/iPod/iPhone/iPad/whatever Apple makes is evolutionary, not revolutionary" band wagon, because this bit here or that bit there "has already been done years ago by somebody else" blah, blah, blah. Nobody bothered to put the bits together or bothered doing so in a way that people realized worked for them.
One disturbing point of the Macalope's article is that some people used Job's death as an opportunity for link bait hate. Fortunately I've avoided running it to that, but I've ignored sources of "experts" who want to make fun of those who feel loss and sadness.
Fry is a great writer. It's not just the accent.