Obviously, that didn’t faze celebrated composer Randy Newman, Jobs’
counterpart in Apple’s blockbuster animated film company Pixar. Newman was more like anyone who likes satire served
ice cold in form of pop song, who was only suckered into attending the MacWorld Convention. It was to much surprise that Newman
didn’t disappoint the MacWorld crowd, satirizing about American life and politics, our leaders and even Europeans—snooty
Europeans in particular—who make putting America down as top priority.
“I was in Europe about a year ago, and I noticed that they don’t
like us very much,” Newman said in his classic deadpan drawl. “And I wanted to do something to sort of ‘explicate’
what America is: to sum it up in about two minutes and 27 seconds. So I wrote this (singing): I’d like to say a few
words in defense of our country, who people aren’t bad nor are they mean. Now the leaders we have, while they are the
worst we’ve had, are hardly the worst this poor world has ever seen. Let’s turn history’s page, shall we?”
Meanwhile, when Newman’s presence didn’t really mean jack squat
to PC fans and some Apple/Mac buttkissers, the piece of junk MacBook Air sold out at MacWorld. The relentless advertisements
on television are about as annoying as the Christmas season advertisements for Verizon Wireless, which in some markets keep
running because of the writers strike, which includes some commercial writers who also serve in some other aspect of media.
Jobs’ determinism to take over every particular aspect of media market
could land a anti-trust lawsuit on his desk, just like numerous years ago against competitor company Microsoft. Apple is walking
a very tight rope and if a wrong move is made, a trip to Federal court will be inevitable, not to mention a Congressional
probe.
Leaning back on the MB Air, just about any extreme action can destroy this
laptop that has the thickness less than a quarter or even a nickel. But any damage to this computer could cost as little as
25% of retail to almost 4-5 times the retail price, the most being the LCD screen replacement. A repair of this caliber is
intolerable and would only hurt the market more. With over half of Americans are in debt and most homeowners struggling to
keep their homes, Jobs’ decision to flop out this new computer was a bad idea. His obvious market is to people to ACTUALLY
HAVE MONEY. This is just only going to hurt someone’s or some corporation’s bottom line. Say that my business
bought one and there was an electrical problem with it two days after purchase, not caused by the purchasing agent of the
company, being my close friend Trevor Gordon, or any employee of WorldWide Publications & Media, it would cost between
$129 and $255 for the problem to be fixed. Say this problem occurs six times in 2008 and the cost was $255 to fix the problem;
WWPM would have been screwed out of almost 2-3 times the retail value on repairs. Not good.
If Apple’s top priority is screwing people on products that costs more
to fix, of which Dell’s Michael Dell has proved to improve upon by 2012 to lower repair costs and offering an even longer
extended warranty, then Steve Jobs should just take his fat wallet elsewhere. He’s already trying to buy out as much
Microsoft and other tech stocks to attain a board of trustees position. His proclaim to “shotgun” the competition
by trying to say his product is better than everyone else’s.
HORSECRAP SPOILER ALERT! If Jobs always says this horsecrap, then why is his
iPhone not selling as much as it was when he released it last year? Wait, I forgot, his greedy carcass only sold them to the
AT&T Wireless/Cingular Wireless family and kept everyone else from selling them. No U.S. Cellular, no Sprint, no Alltel,
no Verizon, no one could have access but AT&T/Cingular.
If Jobs wants to prove
that his products are superior, then bring your prices down to where people CAN ACTUALLY AFFORD THEM! Or Jobs can take the
“I’m doing it my way and the hell with the rest of the world” approach in these so-called politically correctness
times, in which more people will hate Apple even more. We’ll still use your iPods, but make a computer that won’t
hurt the bottom line for anyone, individual or corporation.
If I had any advice for anyone who will get a tax refund from 2007 and the
additional check in the mail for the economic stimulus ordeal that is still being negotiated in Washington, I would advise
NOT to buy this computer. It will not only hurt your bottom line, but you may have foreseen any expenses of maintenance on
this computer, not to mention the God-forsaken operating system for some people who still love Windows for Mac: Microsoft
Vista, which is still having more update problems than Britney Spears’ mental breakdowns.