Thank Steve Jobs

31Dec07

Steve Jobs came out recently and pretty much admitted that the iPod should be thought of as a disposable product. It is a slick, sleek thing, and you would never consider that it comes from a fundamentally dirty industry. In fact, the amount of toxins that go into an iPod is enormous. There are more than 68 million of these things out there, and they are full of cadmium, beryllium and lead. And Apple has deliberately created them so they only last a year. The company has a voluntary take-back program, but how many people use it? They won’t say. I am hugely personally disappointed in Steve Jobs. He turned into Darth Vader. – Giles Slade

I’m kinda heated with Steve Jobs and Apple right now. A mac repair shop basically told me to get a new laptop instead of replacing a shoddy G4 logic board that died after 2.5 years. I’ve got a dead 30gb iPod, and I have a feeling that one day my video iPod is going to die as well. Forget the fact that every piece of Apple hardware I own has already been rendered obsolete by fashion and style changes courtesy of Cupertino.  Shitty hardware rendered obsolete by style – Obsolescence mastered at both ends of the equation. Think Different!

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