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Is any statement more appropriate to Bitcoin? On a more cynical note... if any of you have trouble getting your apps into the App Store, send them this quote  ;)

@ appropriate statement, definitely  8)

@ cynical note, revolutions keep devouring their children  :(

lol Apple.

The times when they were innovative are long past. Trendy/idiot market, they call it now. Is there finally a Bitcoin wallet for the iWhatevers? I know the Android ones are buggy, but at least someone is trying there. Or do people still need permission from Apple to install programs, and Apple doesn't like Bitcoin? :D

And... I already find C++ kind of unsuitable... would I trust my Bitcoins to an Objective-C Client? Perfect high-level security? ::)

Singularity! Those who still believe in "think different" are at Microsoft Research these days. Strange, isn't it? Still, I hope the Midori rumours hold true, they turn it into a deployment-ready OS and turn the market upside down with it. No offence, but I prefer even a proprietary modern OS to sticking with ever-patched designs from the last millenium.

iOS. Think different. Bah, empty words. Okay, admittedly, I'd really have to think different to not allow customers to choose their own software. ???

If you snip out everything but "crazy ones" and "round peg, square hole" it would be more apt

Everyone fancies themselves as the "intelligent ones" with the "novel ideas".


Keep this in mind at all times.

  That lil advert of theirs reads eerily similar to one I have seen some place before?  Some brand of jeans or something if I recall.....  Anyone else think this sounds familiar?

How close am I?

http://adsoftheworld.com/files/images/original_p_manifestostamp.preview.jpg

I think this is closer:

http://popsop.com/wp-content/uploads/levis_ready_to_work_01.jpg

Is that a serious ad?  If so, I will never buy their jeans. LOL

  haha, I'm a Wrangler man when it comes ot work jeans myself. Used to love my Tommies, before he went all racist on us and the quality went to shit. Got some Polos that have held their own though.


  Very close on that ad, Phin. that may be what my brain was pieceing together. But, I think I have seen one even closer in verbage. Maybe an old CK ad?

   Edit; If this Wiki article is correct, I am likely mistaken and just associating; "Think Different" is an advertising slogan created for Apple Computer in 1997
   Edit2; Looking more into the history of the ad campaign surrounding it, it seems it has been permanently etched in my mind. I guess the part they failed on was making sure anyone who ever saw it made the Apple connection. ;p Of course in my case, I am a sponge to just about everything I see but don't care much for adverts to begin with, so am possibly one of the minority who would not make the immediate association with apple..  Cheers

Not that I'm a fan of Glen Beck, but I watched a short blurb of him publicly boycotting Levi's over the socialist message behind one of their advertisements.

perhaps IBM(lenovo) ought to sue them over infrignement for the "thinkpad" name(which would predate their ad campaigin) ... wait suing your competitors into oblivion is too mainstream now?

  Aye, he is a screwbacll. But Levi's latest round attempting to identify with too many different people at once made it a flop, imho.

   Aye, IBM's "Think" is much older. It is certainly speculated that Apple was intentionaly poking at the much older IBM with the new slogan of "Think Different".

more respected at that (goes off to poke fun at crippled apple users)

Beck gets +1 if he did that. He also did an entire 1-hour show on Hayek's Road to Serfdom, which gives him +1000 points, and makes up for a lot of his transgressions and tomfoolery.

Society would break down pretty fast if the "unimportant" people stop doing there jobs, just because it is 'socialist' doesn't mean it isn't correct.

That Levi ad is deceptive, because it features attractive models rather than real working people. Nerds, geeks, square pegs, and other names are given to people that are perceived to be incompetent because they are unattractive. Cronie-capitalism has become accepted in much of the West. It's just like in "Death of a Salesman" that now we have a generation raised on who-you-know mentality rather than merit.

To address the OP: Apple stopped being about innovation with the Mac. They are all about packaging, aesthetics, and simplicity. I'm not slamming Apple for their success, but they tend to appeal to people more interested in style than innovation.


*I was not aware of Job's retirement or condition at the time.

nice quote from a company that uses second grade outdated hardware and sells for enormous profits :)

ITT: Hypocritical Circle Jerking

FTFY
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Apple were never great innovators.

Apple's strength is not fundamental research. Its strength is design, ergonomics and taking known innovations to the masses.

I've seen a few truly jaw dropping innovations come out of Google and IBM, for example this:

https://researcher.ibm.com/researcher/view_page.php?id=2661

Apple's "innovations" are pretty humdrum and banal in comparison, like "let's just put one button on a smartphone instead of 4".

  Aye, we could build a list a mile long of companies more innovative than Apple. Kodak, Samsung, et al. But, for sheer market clout, they would certainly be at the top of that list.

  I keep neglecting the original point here to this thread. That slogan is an excellent discriptor of Bitcoin. We'd need to come up with our own, similarly quantifying "Think" type verb to kick start it.

  Gonna need more coffee for that....  *sips and ponders*

Why buy a good hardware for a good price? THINK DIFFERENT, buy old and fail hardware for a higher price!

Why buy a smartphone with a good display that won't break? THINK DIFFERENT, buy a smartphone whose display happily break (and then you keep using it cause ops you just spent 700$)

I just wanted to come over here on this thread and laugh at that ridiculous Levi's ad. 

Thanks for the coffee. After a few sips, I came up this:

Bitcoin: We Believe Otherwise

or

Bitcoin: Because we Believe Otherwise

They have strayed so epically far away from their humble beginnings...