Blogger Indonesia finds a quote from jeremy wagstaff:

What I’m not interested in:
heavily corporate technology or press releases that would only make sense to someone inside the industry
any press release about some new appointment, unless his name is Steve Jobs or God (or both).

Nate from One Red Pilot (another Christian as like myself) notes:

There is rumor that Apple is bringing a retail store to Charleston…that would be great news for my Apple addiction…bad news for my budget…

Come to me Steve Jobs

Philosophickus Rex at TheologyWeb promises:

My next daring stunt will be a streaking session through Steve Jobs’ house.

Hamilton Chua moans:

Apple released the long awaited iPhone SDK last week and boy does Steve Jobs know how to make you regret buying your new PC.

In comments on Why Apple Will Generate Next Gen Computing it was said:

I’ll agree there’s a little too much kool aid drunk in preparation of this article, but it does nail a number of things correctly.

There is never too much Kool-Aid, are we clear on that?

Mike Rappaport sings the praises of Dear Leader:

As entrepreneurs go, you really gotta love Steve Jobs. Bill Gates, not so much. Jobs makes less money, but the stuff he builds is great.

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If Steve Jobs didn’t exist, there is a strong case to be made that MP3 players would still suck (the other ones still don’t work too well, I am told). Since much of the good stuff in computers comes from Apple (although some of it they took from Xerox), computers might be quite a bit worse as well. By contrast, if Bill Gates didn’t exist, it is not so clear how much worse, if any, the world would be. He got there a little quicker, like Einstein and the special theory, but the benefit was not so great. And maybe Gates got their quicker but did a worse job, so that the advances would have been a bit slower, but would have been better without him.

It is no surprise that Steve Jobs knows this. One of the best pieces I have ever seen on the rise of computers was a documentary called Triumph of the Nerds. Get it if you can. There is a scene in there — happily available on Youtube — where Steve Jobs criticizes Bill Gates, basically saying Gates has no taste — “not in a small way, but in a big way.” What Jobs means is that Gates just copies stuff and doesn’t try to make it excellent. It was true 20 years ago when Jobs said it and it is true now.

Finally, let us pray (courtesy of World of Apple 2007 MacWorld Photo Gallery):