blake johnson

This has apparently been around for quite a while now (I’m a bit behind the times, ok?), but The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs is hilariously funny. Check it out.

Apparently the author of the blog is going to reveal himself in the next week or two.

Source: worth1000.com

So much for Apple making higher quality computers… I have had more hardware issues with my iBook G4 than any other laptop I’ve owned. Six months ago some piece of the internal power supply went bad so that the computer no longer charged its battery, just last month the airport card stopped working unless I could literally reach out and touch the access point from where I was sitting, then today, I’m browsing the internet, I hear a pop, and the backlight of the LCD screen completely turns off!? Luckily, these last two problems were fixable— my airport card is working again after taking it out and reseating it, and the screen came back to life after a hard reboot.

But, the damage has been done. I can no longer hold onto the fantasy that somehow Apple makes products with fewer problems then Dell, Sony, etc.

I am becoming a bit nervous about Apple’s future. They are sitting on some great products, but I’m not sure that Apple’s current strategy is in its best long-term interests. My particular concern is with Apple’s unwillingness to liscense their DRM technology to other device manufacturers. I love the AAC codec and I love the iTunes Music store… but the music industry has too much power to be limited to a single distributer. There is a lot of music out there which is not available through iTunes, and if people cannot get the music they want from iTunes, and when cheap and good alternatives to the iPod exist, people will drift away from Apple’s iPod/iTunes music platform.

I am fully aware that the iPod is the best-selling portable music player currently on the market, and that Apple is reaching out to those that cannot afford an iPod with the iPod Shuffle, but I think pretty soon Apple is going to have to open up the AAC format to other distributers, or else risk eroding it’s market share.