Apple-Eyed

This post from over at TechCrunch is a rare and perspicacious blip on an otherwise narrow and complaint-doppled radar monitoring public opinions about Apple.  I like this opinion and a few others like it (see daringfireball) for the selfish reason that they reflect my own.

I am a fan of Apple products, and I guess an occasional apologist (my iPhone 4 is problem free).  Still, the number of armchair CEOs and backseat product managers (few of whom seem to have any experience in these matters other than writing about them) who seem confident to describe Apple's latest inscrutable or idiotic product/design/service "blunder" surprises me.  I'm even more surprised that Steve Jobs doesn't send more STFU replies to these folks.

image from techherald.com with its own great Jobs article

I don't mean to lionize Jobs, but I do admire him.  How can you not?!  The article linked to above contains its own link to Jobs' 2005 commencement speech at Stanford; read that and tell me "he just doesn't get it."  To the contrary, I think Jobs gets more of the "it" that's available on this plane of existence than most of us ever will.

I'm not saying the company or the people are above reproach.  They aren't.  iDisk sucks.  And there are other things that bug me, but I guess I like it when other folks seem to appreciate the weight of an Apple decision and the combined talent, experience, and acumen that backs it up.  Apple has made some things that I like, find useful, and satisfy me.  Because they've done that so consistently well for so long (I became an Appler back in '01), they have a lot of credit with me.

~benc

PS - New Apple TV looks like it will do exactly what I want.