See here. Anil Dash says we're being all smug and ugly because we make fun of Windows in one of our ads. Money quote: "Perhaps most disturbingly, it's not at all implausible that this little easter egg was, at least implicitly, approved by Steve Jobs himself. It's a whole 'nother post to explain why that level of meddling megalomania is kind of pathological for a multi-billion-dollar global corporation, but let's not digress too much. Suffice to say, the presence of this image means that there's permission to be this passive-aggressive and, well, lame at all levels of Apple's organization."
I'm not even sure where to go with this. I got so angry reading this vicious attack piece that I just started shaking. Ja'Red had to come in and bring me my bottled oxygen. People have no idea how sensitive I am. Negativity of all kinds just really upsets me. I know it's a free country and people like Anil can write or saw whatever they want. But I really need to keep this stuff out of my zone of focus. It hurts, people. It really hurts. Now will someone please bring me a mango smoothie and make sure there are no damn chunks in it? Thank you.
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Wow, some guy named Anil is unloading on me
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You misspelled his name, it's Anal, not Anil...
...which pretty much puts his comments into perspective.
Actually, Anil was referring to the fact that in the new Mac O/S, the icon for a networked Windows machine is a 1980's-vintage monitor with a Windows BSOD. Anil's point was that referring to Windows machines with a BSOD icon was needlessly antagonistic, obnoxious and smug.
who the f*ck is he anyway? f*ck him if he can't take a (well deserved) joke. now if the Borg commented on this, maybe that is different (maybe...). meantime, tell Anus, Anil, whatever, to chill, or start his own company and do better.
Don't worry. He works at sixapart, a company even more smug and annoying than apple.
Bottled Oxygen? You sound like that guy from SpaceBalls.
WTF is that frigtard talking about? What a whiny bitch. I think the blue screen to represent Windows machines is great. In fact, I think I'll use it as my desktop image.
Geez...what do you expect from a guy whose name sounds like a colon treatment?
Hey Dickhead -
Wired has it "spot on" (pun intended).
http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/10/leopard-upgrade.html
Leopard Upgrades Plagued By "Blue Screen Of Death"
You need to post his picture. He takes himself even more seriously than Cramer.
It's not an ad, it's straight from Leopard.
john said:
"who the f*ck is he anyway? ... tell [him] to start his own company and do better."
Uh, he's Anil Dash from SixApart. Dude, he invented Movable Type, TypePad and Live Journal. You know, blogging tools? Have you heard of them?
Frankly, I agree with him. I'm as Apple fanboy as anybody, been a Mac user since 1994, but this is just pathetic and a complete waste of creative energy. Apple should concentrate on making their stuff bulletproof, which it certainly isn't as the Leopard APE upgrade problems can testify, rather than spending time being petty and purile. Grow up Steve!
Anil wrote: "...But the image here deliberately uses an aged-looking monitor..."
This is obviously a part of a deliberate branding campaign to paint MacOS X as "The Future" (the field of stars) and windows as being a "Legacy System".
More power to them.
Anil is only Anal because he has to look at that screen day in and day out when working tech support. Yeah I went there.
"Anil's point was that referring to Windows machines with a BSOD icon was needlessly antagonistic, obnoxious and smug."
It did make me laugh out loud though.
I think Anil is saying real operating systems are humorless, personalityless, tools for the masses. They are to symbolize the textureless face of capitalism like the masters they serve and represent a single minded focus of appealing to the greatest consensus.
Any deviation from this unfeeling purpose represents a dangerous aliance between the consumer and manufacturer. The positioning of Apple as smug is necessary to help lower consumers expectations for products empowering human freedom.
Who's this Anal.. err Anil? His face's a smug. I see it all over his piece. Now he wants to be famous riding on Apple. We will ride over him. Flat him out. Don't worry FSJ. I'm with you, coming with the mango smoothie. I have one with me too.
@post #2
1980's monitor? Try 1990's. Many people i know are still using their beige CRT monitors in 2007.
Regarding the BSOD - Hell, my compaq laptop bluescreened its way through my school years, and when I loaded Windows ME on there, it would bluescreen about every half-hour, complaining about "kernel32.dll". The joke may be a bit dated, but it's still relevant, and it definitely brings back memories that fuel my hate for MS.
f.sj:
you're an excellent writer with a great understanding of the industry. you said that you started the blog by wanting to choose someone to parody on the inside, be it a Microsoft head, Google, or maybe even Mr. Clippy from MS Word.
But you went with Jobsy. An excellent choice. So screw people who think this is a marketing campaign and get pissed off with what they perceive as subtle passive aggressive remarks.
You have to read these responses as though you were Steve Jobs. Would jobsy care if someone thought he was being passive in bashing microsoft?
Hell no.
He'd say, "Why actually, I thought I have been more than kind to the company. I haven't revealed that back in the day, the Borg came to me because of a situation. An employee had coded some information in a version of windows that secretly stored and sent all users credit cards, social security numbers, number of porn files, etc.
Wanted to know what to do with information, fire the guy, handle the press and whatnot. They wanted to know what I would do.
I said easy. I told him to come to my morning yoga class. The next morning he came. Even though I've been doing Yoga for some time, I haven't gained that much flexibility. And the representative of the Borg was even worse. We were terrible infront of all these greatly shaped, incredibly beautiful women.
Afterwards, he asked, what was the point of that.
I said, the programmer did something that isn't right. Kind of like us going to this yoga class where we don't belong and felt uncomfortable; but this was trumped by the eye candy.
I said that perhaps this programmer was a sign. That you should hold monthly lotteries where a Borg employee gets access to a random user's credit card. That in the long license agreements you hide somewhere in the text about distributing credit cards and whatnot. No one reads those anyway.
The point is, there are plenty of stories like this that I have chosen not to divulge because these are my friends. We do power yoga together. We make games out of firing employees. Etc, etc.
And as I suspect that you are a Windows user, I thought I'd let you know that due to my overwhelmingly intellectual advice regarding the Borg's problem, I have access to these records as well.
So beware. And afraid.
But most of all, happy.
For now you are blessed from our exchange of words. It's like a vision from God.
Within hours you should feel overwhelmingly divine -- inspired.
And there is no need to thank me. I know you will.
So your welcome.
Amaste."
As someone else already pointed out, you did indeed mis-state the issue; it wasn't the smugified ads he was talking about. Using the ancient monitor with a BSOD to represent Windows machines in Leopard's network is pretty lame. It is, in fact, smug and negative! :o Oh teh irony.
Also, I must know, where do you get your Perri-air? :)
Anil? You mean anal.
Lighten up, FS. This guy is a pussy-whipped wimp. Meddling monomania and passive-aggressive is the way to go in the modern world, and don't feel guilty in the least. It keeps the competition on their toes, and rattled, not knowing where you'll go next.
Stress is good. Go with it. And enjoy your mango smoothie, you rascal.
Amazing amount of offense taken at a little joke about an OPERATING SYSTEM. Seriously, people are like "I will never buy an Apple product because of this." As Dave Barry would say, I am not making this up!
I guess even OSes have feelings to. Shame on Apple for having a sense of humor. This is not how serious modern business is done. What's next, a smily face on screen?
Uh, he's Anil Dash from SixApart. Dude, he invented Movable Type, TypePad and Live Journal. You know, blogging tools? Have you heard of them?
Good Reason NOT to use them.
Sorry! Anil is right.
What got Apple here was keeping its head down and plugging away making the best software / hardware possible. This is how Apple made its superiority statements.
However when you have to point out the obvious in this flawed manner, it behooves the question that the work they did wasn't simply spectacular to convey the feeling on its own.
It was a cheap ploy and hopefully they will correct it with the update.
The easter egg is hilarious, and I hope Steve Jobs (real or fake) did personally approve it. And I'm a PC user, for the record.
it was actually a mistake that this blog entry that has caused you such consternation was released, fsj. it was leaked by people close to him. i guess you'd call it anil leakage.
brawr hawr hawr hawr hawr!!!!!!! i slay me!!!
and that's about the quality of his post.
no really, fsj, don't get all fumey and shakey and start firing folks. well, fire a few, if that'll make you feel better. just give me their job. c'mon everyone one — vaporland, =bg=, toki chan, justflybob, comanche zen, grandmother (if yer not still mad) — time to give our beloved fearless leader a great big group hug. c'mon fakey steve-o, ya big lug, group hug, right over here! ...
"What got Apple here was keeping its head down and plugging away making the best software / hardware possible. This is how Apple made its superiority statements."
Just wrong. While Apple has (IMHO) been making the best hardware and software possible for a while, they have also single-handedly changed how advertising works (1984 was 1st-ever comercial to not actually show product) and have become masters at marketing.
I can understand (though strongly disagree) that you may not like this joke, but ignoring Apple's focus on marketing for the past quarter-century lacks foresight.
As for the icon - really, who cares? Funny or not, it shouldn't be a big deal, it is just an icon.
Anyone who has ever used a windows machine know the BSOD, making that icon totally appropriate and instantly recognizable, be it a joke or not.
Non-money quote: "I'm all for a little sense of humor in the world of technology."
Then the rest of the article goes on to prove him otherwise...
Maybe you could send Moshe to help him get the cob out of his ass.
Out of curiosity, how many of the people who posted here saying f*ck Anil actually read his article?
What a puss... how little does he actually have to do with his days that he would not only take offense to this but would then go and post a lengthy blog about it.
This dude needs to get over himself already.
I mean, seriously... who really cares?
The bottom line is that image is indicative of my entire experience with Windows. I'm a life-long Mac user and I'll be the first to admit that I gave Windows a shot back in the 90s due to the stagnation that was plaguing the Mac at that time and guess what? I was wholeheartedly under-whelmed.
Why?
Because I saw that BSOD way more than any "mature and stable" OS should allow a user to see.
Then again... I'm one of the computer users who actually views a computer as a tool.. as a mean to an end... not as some game platform/glorified word processor.
So Apple actually shows disdain for M$... who gives a flying-f.
Me thinks if he weren't so blatantly anti-Apple he would have never wasted the time to blog this...
What a Douche...
Uh, Anil didn't invent all those things. I for one know that Six Apart LiveJournal. If anonymous' logic is that buying something = inventing it, then that must make Microsoft the most INNOVATIVE COMPANY EVER! Idiot.
And to blame Apple for an unsupported hack that they didn't even develop? That Unsanity developed? That's even more idiotic! Seriously! This is why Apple doesn't want people hacking up their iPhones! 'Cause idiots like you will blame Apple when you fuck it up. After all, when somebody downloads some virus-laden porn app on Windows, who do they blame? Themselves for being idiots? No. They blame Microsoft! And though Microsoft isn't free from all the guilt, you have to put some of the blame on the nerd virgins thinking with their dicks and not their brains. Nerd virgins like you, anonymous.
Clearly most commenters here completely fail to grasp either irony or humor. First, Dash is absolutely right: smugness is just not funny whichever way you look at it. Unless you happen to be one of the smug of course. Second, Fake Steve is being ironic. If the level of intellect polluting this post is any indication of what humanity has become, God (or perhaps Stephen Fry) save us all. Truly, reading these comments is like watching monkeys scratching their arses in a zoo.
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