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| dkersten:
--- Quote from: yotsuya on October 27, 2015, 07:31:14 pm ---Oh yeah, time to break out the hater word. Just because you express an opinion, it doesn't make you a hater. A hater would imply you actually gave a ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- about it. --- End quote --- If you aren't hating on it then you aren't a hater. If you believe it shouldn't exist simply because you have a more refined taste than the one who wants it to exist... well then I would say you are a hater. There is a difference between saying it isn't your style and saying it should never have been done. Speaking of haters, I saw the movie "Steve Jobs" last night. I liked it, but probably not for the reasons others would. The basic gist of the movie was probably supposed to be how this guy was a visionary ahead of his time, failing to create and sell something for over a decade until he finally persevered and people recognized his genius despite his personal flaws. I didn't see that. I saw a guy trying to sell what people don't want because of his own beliefs of how things should be. He raged against the ability to take a product and make it what you want and after the third try he finally sold people on what HE thought they should have, not what THEY wanted to have. That's the genius of Jobs and Apple - a closed ended product that nobody wanted and now people WANT to change their life to fit the product instead of finding a product to fit their life. Any time you have that level of polarization you will have haters. I'm an Apple Hater. I won't admit that some of the products they make are cool and some are even the best at what they do the day they come out. I don't give it a shot because it goes against two things I believe: find the least expensive way to get the best product and then use that product for everything it is capable of, not only what it was designed to do. When I see someone with an iPhone in their back pocket I judge them immediately by it. I classify them as a specific type of person. And when someone buys an Apple product just to taste the Kool-Aid and then later tells me they made a mistake and goes the other direction, I am warmed inside by the fire of my hate. When it comes to Apple, I'm gonna hate, and I am not ashamed of it. But if you are going to build a Play-Doh themed arcade cabinet, more power to you. Just do it well and you will get nothing but kudos from me. |
| Howard_Casto:
I'm not sure how the topic changed to this, but Steve Jobs was a pompus ass. He acted like he personally invented every Apple product when, in reality he did exactly what the "hated" Microsoft did.... look at what companies with actual talent were doing (like Xerox), totally rip them off, and package it better with a better marketing campaign. The only difference is, once in power Microsoft went on to innovate the entire industry with powerful desktop and network infrastructure while Apple just kept putting tired old products in shiny cases selling them for 4x as much as their competitors. How come nobody ever does a documentary of the Woz, he's actually interesting and I would love to know more about his life. I'm under the philosophy that the unwashed masses are often a bit on the slow side, so yeah, you need good marketing to get through their thick skulls sometimes. Once you've hooked them though, you need to have a product worthy of the trickery. Nintendo did the old switcheroo with the NES, tricking parents into thinking it was more than a game console and god bless them for it... they saved the home console industry. Apple on the other hand ticked people into paying more for a watch that does less than the iPhone they already have in their pocket. |
| rust2dust:
I would love to see an updated Hi def version of "braindead 13" in a dragon's lair style cabinet.....my favorite fmv title... Sent from my VS986 using Tapatalk |
| dkersten:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on October 28, 2015, 08:50:34 pm ---I'm not sure how the topic changed to this, but Steve Jobs was a pompus ass. He acted like he personally invented every Apple product when, in reality he did exactly what the "hated" Microsoft did.... look at what companies with actual talent were doing (like Xerox), totally rip them off, and package it better with a better marketing campaign. The only difference is, once in power Microsoft went on to innovate the entire industry with powerful desktop and network infrastructure while Apple just kept putting tired old products in shiny cases selling them for 4x as much as their competitors. How come nobody ever does a documentary of the Woz, he's actually interesting and I would love to know more about his life. --- End quote --- The movie certainly portrayed him that way, which was incredibly refreshing. Woz had a great part and the scenes really showed how bad Jobs treated him. They had some flashbacks to the argument about how many slots to put in the Apple II, and Woz ended up winning it which really led to the success of the product. The last scene with him was powerful, and they flat out admitted how Woz was the genius behind it all but Jobs was the face that everyone knew. All in all, if you lived through that history, the movie is worth seeing. It isn't what you would expect and the acting is top notch. BTW, my first computer was a Vic20, but my second computer was an AppleIIc. I used the AppleIIc until my 3rd year of College when the 486's came out. Back on topic, the console games that stood out for me were the fighting games. I'm a computer gamer, so while I spent much of my youth at the arcade, my next hobby was programming and playing with those early computers. Before I had a computer, I had the Atari and then Intellivision, but by the time the NES came out my Nerd time was split between console games and computer games. Mario is about all that stands out from NES and SNES days (although F-Zero stands out as well). When xbox and ps came out, my kids got the xbox and I played the fighting games with my son. So if I were going to make a console themed cab it would focus on something like Dead or Alive... Probably 30% of the time on my cab was spent playing DoA 1 and 2. 30% was spent on Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter, and the other 40% on classics. To set up the later DoA games would be cool, and the theme would be great for a cab considering the content... Although not very kid friendly, lol. |
| pbj:
The Ashton Kutcher movie was pretty good, I'm surprised anyone felt a need to make another Jobs movie. Oh well, thus is insanity. |
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