Post-Jobs Apple 'has nobody to say no'

My first thought was "oh god, here we go, someone had to make this argument eventually..."

But then I glanced at the screenshot, and to be fair, it... feels wrong. Something about it doesn't quite sit right. Hmm, it gives me pause for thought.

I seem to remember they have these guys named Tim Cook and Sir Jonathan Ive that have the ability to say no. I would expect the rest of the folks on this page http://www.apple.com/pr/bios/ and pretty good at knowing what should be in a product.

This is really going to be the goto story for people on a deadline or to get some page views. It is even easier to write than the standard "I am all out of ideas" top-10 list. I swear I am going make a website generated by a program that outputs these type of stories. I always wanted to learn Prolog.

For once you'll read a much more balanced and informative coverage of the same "news" on TechCrunch: http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/24/jobs-apple-tv-margolis/

Seriously, try it out. It goes beyond the link-bait headline ad actually gives some real information.

If you've read the biography, you probably know that Steve jobs initially said no to the idea of the iPhone having an app store. He later came around. I personally like the new Apple TV UI. The previous version had pull down type menus, which can make it difficult to find stuff as your content inventory grows. The icon like app interface they've adopted now, similar to ios, is something more people are accustomed to and something they can keep adding to, "folders" could become "channels" etc.

Something rubs me the wrong way about this being sensationalized like this. Okay so one disgruntled insider thinks their latest design is shit and Jobs wouldn't have let it through. Fine. He's entitled to his opinion.

But the media is just chomping at the bit for any kind of Apple-is-slipping story so they can pin it on Jobs' death. But the reality is that most of the people who made Apple's recent products great are still there, and so is Steve's vision to a great extent. Also, it's not as if Jobs was infallible in his design sense. He let abominations like the hockey puck mouse out the door, and who knows what sides he fell on in all the internal design debates over the years. The mythologizing of Jobs is clouding people's judgement about Apple's performance and it's only gonna get worse.

People conveniently forget that multiple flops also happened on Jobs' watch. For all the talk of his ability to say "no", maintain focus and never sacrifice UX they still produced the G4 Cube and iTunes Ping, among others.