{"id":4475,"date":"2010-04-17T13:19:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T17:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=4475"},"modified":"2021-06-10T13:26:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T17:26:13","slug":"steve-jobs-is-a-stupid-dumbass-idiot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2010\/04\/17\/steve-jobs-is-a-stupid-dumbass-idiot\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Jobs is a Stupid Dumbass Idiot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n    For quite a while I’ve been patiently waiting for Apple to support Blu-ray drives or allow Blu-ray playback in their Mac line. I’ve heard how licensing Blu-ray is a “bag of hurt” but assumed all those problems would be worked out in time. Today, I see someone emailed Steve Jobs<\/a> about this very topic, and Jobs shot back this short, simple, taunt of a response.

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    I cannot fully illustrate how fucking infuriated this makes me.  Jobs’s alternative to Blu-ray is YouTube<\/i>?!  For one thing, Flash on YouTube performs like shit on a Mac.  For another thing, YouTube might say it is 1080p, but it is compressed so much that the video quality is a laughably poor substitute for 1080p from a Blu-ray disc.  In short, saying YouTube is similar to Blu-ray is like like saying a sheet of paper is a replacement for an iPad.
    That dog don’t hunt.
    Over the last few years, I’ve bought a Power Mac, a Mac Pro, a PowerBook, a MacBook Pro, a couple iPhones, and numerous iPods.  I’ve talked family members into getting iMacs and Macbooks.  I’ve spent a lot of money on this company.  But I have gotten tired of waiting for them to upgrade their optical drives — or even to allow Blu-ray playback from some third-party vendor’s external drive.  Windows laptops and desktops have had this capability for a couple years now, but it seems Apple can’t handle it, or, more likely, doesn’t give a shit.  This has become readily apparent now, direct from the head of the company, in the form of a stupid, thoughtless, tossed-off comment.  Well…two can play at that game: Fuck you, Steve Jobs — my next computer will be running Windows.\n\n\n\n

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