So. What will it be?
On the one hand I remember the complete scepticism the iPod was greeted with, and now digital music is the norm. So did Steve Jobs digify the world and open the door for digital media of all kinds, from music to film to books. And did this destroy the internet by making it something you consume rather than engage with? Was the move from BBSs and weird little individual hobby websites with blinking fonts to Hulu and other passive streaming forms of the internet (even Facebook is pretty passive) inevitable or did the iPod and the digitisation of music the first step.
Was the best thing he ever did robbing the WIMP environment and mass marketing it?
Will his most lasting legacy be the idea like a company like Apple can ask for a 20% cut, Tony Soprano style of everything that happens in their environment and expect people, to comply? And a related point will locked off ecosystems like the iPhones become the norm? A computer will no longer be something you programme yourself or tinker with and programmes are now apps and just another form of entertainment?
On the one hand I remember the complete scepticism the iPod was greeted with, and now digital music is the norm. So did Steve Jobs digify the world and open the door for digital media of all kinds, from music to film to books. And did this destroy the internet by making it something you consume rather than engage with? Was the move from BBSs and weird little individual hobby websites with blinking fonts to Hulu and other passive streaming forms of the internet (even Facebook is pretty passive) inevitable or did the iPod and the digitisation of music the first step.
Was the best thing he ever did robbing the WIMP environment and mass marketing it?
Will his most lasting legacy be the idea like a company like Apple can ask for a 20% cut, Tony Soprano style of everything that happens in their environment and expect people, to comply? And a related point will locked off ecosystems like the iPhones become the norm? A computer will no longer be something you programme yourself or tinker with and programmes are now apps and just another form of entertainment?