{"id":1860,"date":"2011-10-07T11:30:11","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T02:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2011-10-07\/1860"},"modified":"2011-11-07T17:00:44","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T08:00:44","slug":"on-why-the-iphone4s-is-a-disappointment-and-a-on-steve-jobs-greatest-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2011-10-07\/1860","title":{"rendered":"On Why the iPhone 4s is a Disappointment, and on Steve Jobs’ Greatest Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Like many eagerly awaiting an iPhone 5<\/b> announcement, I was disappointed<\/span> the other day when Apple announced the iPhone\n4s<\/b>. In thinking<\/span> about the logical response to my disappointment, asking\n“would I have<\/span> been happier had they named the new phone iPhone\n5<\/i>?” the answer is “no” because bumping up the number from 4 to 5\nimplies a revolution<\/span> of some sort, and that's not present in the newly-announced phone.<\/p>\n\n

“So what kind of new revolutionary features were you hoping for?” you\nmight ask, and I think<\/span> the answer is telling about why Apple is the success\nit is: I was<\/span> looking forward not to some specific bell or whistle that I\nalready<\/span> knew I wanted,<\/span> but to the features that I didn't<\/span> even know I\nwanted,<\/span> would probably not be interested in when first hearing about them, but\nlike so many steps along the way since the iPod, after a year<\/span> won't know\nhow I could<\/span> have lived without them. That's Apple's genius.<\/p>\n\n

And though it may not be popular to say\nsomething unkind about Steve Jobs these days, while it's true he's a genius<\/span>\nbeyond modern compare, I have never<\/span> been able to forget the story of how he\nshirked his responsibility as a man.<\/span>.. as a decent<\/span> human... in not taking\nresponsibility for the first child he fathered. He impregnated<\/span> his girl,\nthen walked away with a “not my problem”. This was not a momentary<\/span> lapse in\njudgment during a moment<\/span> of panic.... he spent years actively being a jerk<\/span>\nto mother of his child, and I think<\/span> it's deeply telling about what kind of\nman he was.<\/p>\n\n

In design and business he's an unmitigated genius, but not so much on\nthe personal-ethics front. I can appreciate<\/span> his good points, but the\nunadulterated praise saturating the web seems universal in trying to\ncanonize him for sainthood. He was a<\/span> man, and like all men, he had\nfailings. (All women have failings as well, with\nthe exception of my wife, mother, and mother-in-law, of course.)<\/span><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Like many eagerly awaiting an iPhone 5<\/b> announcement, I was disappointed the other day when Apple announced the iPhone 4s<\/b>. In thinking about the logical response to my disappointment, asking \"would I have been happier had they named the new phone iPhone 5?\" the answer is \"no\" because bumping up the number from 4 to 5 implies a revolution of some sort, and that's not present in the newly-announced phone.<\/p>

\"So what kind of new revolutionary features were you hoping for?\" you might ask, and I think the answer is telling about why Apple is the success it is: [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}