Steve Jobs - the smart way to sell proprietary hard and software

One of the things that really annoys anyone who has not fallen under Apple’s magic spell is that they lock down the market with proprietary hardware and software. For anyone who is concerned about open systems, freedom and democracy this is not a good thing. This opinion has some very influential people behind it.

Possibly the most important person to criticize Apple for their over reliance on proprietary software was Tim Berners-Lee, the man credited with inventing the World Wide Web. He wrote in a famous article in Scientific American, Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality, that open standards foster creativity while closed standards ‘creates closed worlds’ He gives the example of using iTunes which doesn’t use http, but instead itunes: and this he believes takes you off the web and closes down innovation.

Anyone who is a keen player of games will probably be fed up with the small number of games that actually work on Macs. People who play partypoker PL will be slightly miffed that they have to use their Java-based ‘instant play’ system. Most PC Gamers will be really annoyed that you can play so few games on Macs - Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is one particularly notable example.

The computer freedom guru Richard Stallman has said that he is glad that Steve Jobs (who The Economist magazine called The Minister of Magic) is gone. Now, before you get too outraged, he said he glad he and his influence is gone, not that he is glad that he died young-ish of cancer. Stallman believes that Jobs turned computers into prison and then made that prison seem ‘cool’ to the in-mates. All us Mac-o-Phobes, will probably agree with his opinion that we can only hope that Jobs’s successors will be less effective than the man himself.

Dear Apple Community,

For the first time in a decade, I’m getting to spend the holiday season with my family, rather than intensely preparing for a Macworld keynote.

Unfortunately, my decision to have Phil deliver the Macworld keynote set off another flurry of rumors about my health, with some even publishing stories of me on my deathbed.

I’ve decided to share something very personal with the Apple community so that we can all relax and enjoy the show tomorrow.

As many of you know, I have been losing weight throughout 2008. The reason has been a mystery to me and my doctors. A few weeks ago, I decided that getting to the root cause of this and reversing it needed to become my #1 priority.

Fortunately, after further testing, my doctors think they have found the cause—a hormone imbalance that has been “robbing” me of the proteins my body needs to be healthy. Sophisticated blood tests have confirmed this diagnosis.

The remedy for this nutritional problem is relatively simple and straightforward, and I’ve already begun treatment. But, just like I didn’t lose this much weight and body mass in a week or a month, my doctors expect it will take me until late this Spring to regain it. I will continue as Apple’s CEO during my recovery.

I have given more than my all to Apple for the past 11 years now. I will be the first one to step up and tell our Board of Directors if I can no longer continue to fulfill my duties as Apple’s CEO. I hope the Apple community will support me in my recovery and know that I will always put what is best for Apple first.

So now I’ve said more than I wanted to say, and all that I am going to say, about this.

Steve

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• Your ego feels like it has a bit more room to move around.
• The Gap in Cupertino has a sale to get rid of the overstock on turtlenecks.
• The Apple guy is wearing a black arm band in the commercials.
• Bill Gates commits suicide (he always rips off original ideas from Apple).
• Apple’s stock price doesn’t have any digits to the left of the decimal point.
• His iPhone is forwarded to John Lasseter.
• A sudden run on floral bouquets in the shape of an apple.
• At the end of Strawberry Fields you can hear John Lennon say “I buried Jobs”.
• MacWorld keynote given by Noah Wylie.
• All next-generation Apple products are square and beige.
• All iPods only play “Nothing Compares 2 U” by Sinead O’Connor.

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Apple’s Steve Jobs is too thin this year compared to previous year . Its because of the pancreatic cancer he has . But why he thinks himself as a handicapped person and parks car in handicapped spaces . Below are the images taken from people which proves steve jobs parks his  Mercedes SL55 AMG in handicapped spaces. I think he is handicapped in health regard. ( too thin ) or mentally ( MobileMe , 10% share of Mac in computers world ) . May god bless him . And why the cars have Blank number plate?

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