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Anon is smarter than a genius (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 years ago by [M] to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 187 points 2 years ago (34 children)

There is a distinct type of person, very good at one thing, that is unable to understand that doesn’t translate to the rest of their life. Easiest to describe them as a high int, low wis character.

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  • [–] 88 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    And by good at one thing you mean exploiting people and gaslighting the media.

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  • [+] 57 points 2 years ago (10 children)
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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

    I will give him credit he turned computers and phones into fashion accessories. He is closer to Coco Chanel than any tech visionary. If you think about it his methods were closer to QAnon or flat earth people. You can sell some people anything if you can convince them they are better than other people if they follow you. I am still salty about him overshadowed Dennis Richie's passing who was a real tech visionary.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Steve Jobs a fascist? Like Vichy collaborator and Nazi spy Coco Chanel?

    Edit not defending Steve jobs over here

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Considering how much control Apple tries to exert over how you use your devices that does seem pretty close to the truth.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    As I've gotten older, I've come to realize that convenience and simplicity are sometimes a feature. Just Works™ technology has a lot of value (assuming the thing does in fact just work).

    I don't have any Apple products, but there are plenty of other categories in my life where I've paid more for a worse product just because I didn't have to think at all about the one I got.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I feel this way about cars. I still don't even like automatic doors. Electrical systems in any car is a nightmare. Add 10k little doodads and features all drawing electrical power make so complicated a mess you'll never sort it out and if you do you'll probably realize that the automotive engineer set it up that way because there isn't a better solution that's obvious to anyone who knows how electrical systems are designed and work let alone a backyard mechanic.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Just Works™ technology has a lot of value (assuming the thing does in fact just work).

    And that assumption is unfounded in Apple's case. My parents have constant issues with their iPhones that you would never get on Android. But my mom is convinced that it's easier to use than Android despite never having tried Android

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'd be interested to hear what those problems are. Not saying you're wrong by any means, but the legacy of the iPhone has been, from the very beginning, a simple, non customizable, piss easy to use, smart phone for dumb people that basically can't be broken (at least on a software level) because it won't let you play with any of the fiddly bits. It does exactly what it does and if you don't like that, shoulda bought an Android instead, because this iPhone isn't about to let you change it.

    That's not to say that they can't have bugs or issues, because they certainly can, but the ability of the phone owner to brick themselves is like a fraction of a fraction of a percent of what you'd see with Androids in my experience. Android will let you do what you want up to and including breaking your boot loader if you mess around with developer settings, Apple doesn't even give you dev settings last I knew.

    I'm an Android fan myself but I do see that Apple has a use case, and that use case is giving non technically minded people a device that "just works" mostly without having to fiddle with it.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I’ve switched to iOS exclusively about 10 years ago cause I got tired of android being full of it. I just wanted a phone that works without me tweaking every little thing. I don’t regret the choice one bit, other than giving money to the other tech giant.

    This is not me hating android either; I guess I was unlucky with the phones I had.

    That said, being a dev myself, my phone shouldn’t be a side project I maintain, but something I can use with ease. Apple products fit that description for me and just as that won’t be a universal sentiment (which it never should be) that’s nothing to be scoffed at.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I used to work as a court clerk and judges are like this. You cannot tell them anything because if they get it into their heads that they know better than you then they will completely ignore reality in favor of their own, largely arbitrary, fictional universe.

    The best incentive ever not to commit a crime is to find out how utterly dysfunctional the legal system is.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    The Alito brain is the end stage of this mentality.

    "'Any' limitation?? Have you considered fish and birds aren't mammals? The principal wouldn't be happy! Checkmate EPA, now you can't enforce water quality standards." -SCOTUS last week.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    Doctors failed to communicate the situation in a way he would grasp that his choices were death or chemo. Maybe a, "that's your choice? OK, before you go, how world you like us to handle your corpse? So you want a full autopsy to confirm the cancer diagnosis, or would you prefer we didn't? Is there a particular burial home you have plans with? "

    But in all likelihood there's nothing anyone could have said to him to make him see reason.

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  • [–] 43 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    But in all likelihood there’s nothing anyone could have said to him to make him see reason.

    "The CEO after you will mess up the design of apple products"

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Also everyone will stop using iPods because they realized the truth that was always there which is that having a separate device for listening to music, when you already have a portable computer in your pocket is stupid.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I'm legitimately wondering if you're young enough to not know that the iPod came WAY before the first iPhone, which was the first widely adopted smart phone.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    You could play your music from your phone quite a good bit before the first iPhone. But even then, IIRC the iPod came before that was common.
    Never understood what it did different to a regular mp3 player though.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    There is a real systemic problem with healthcare. I dunno if it would have applied to Jobs, but with normal patients, the quick get-in get-out assembly line–like approach to healthcare means patients don't feel well taken care of, which is a stark contrast to pseudoscientific woo-woo like chiropracty, reiki, naturopathy, and other "alternative medicine", where the practitioners take their time and make the patients feel listened to. Is it any wonder that some people, especially those of minorities that have historically tended to be treated even worse by actual medical professionals (women's "hysteria", black people "feel pain less", fat people "just need to lose weight", etc ), are becoming more likely to embrace the thing that makes them feel good, rather than the thing that actually works?

    IMO alternative medicine practitioners who discourage their customers from going to real doctors should be imprisoned. But the big problem is a lack of funding to real doctors to allow them to spend more time providing more personal care to patients.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    The guy had practically unlimited money. He could have paid a world class doctor to clean his bathroom every week while giving health advice and playing the guitar at the same time.

    I know people who are well off, have serious health issues and spend a lot of effort to go to doctors who are experts in their fields. I'd say part of the problem is that most doctors are really bad with humans.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    What was the one thing he was good at?

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    People say he was good at marketing but really he was only okay at marketing. He got fined because everyone hated him. Then they completely mismanaged the company and had no choice but to bring him back, which of course just reinforced his ego.

    The truth was they could have got any moderately competent CEO and they would have brought Apple back from the brink, just as much as Steve Jobs did. Look at Tim Cook, he's not doing an obviously worse job than Jobs did, but because he doesn't have the formers aura, people rightfully call him out every time he does something stupid.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I call it the engineer disease. Good to know that other fields have it as well...

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Ever met a surgeon?

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