Your logical fallacy is: Ad Hominem. https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/ad-hominem
Can't speak for Phil, but I did come here simply to point out that the article comes off a little strange with JLG trying to sound like an outsider while talking about a company he worked at for over a decade, and in an executive capacity. It was twenty years ago, and by bringing it up I don't mean to imply a problem with what he's saying (I agree with it), I just wonder if he is a household name and this is considered common knowledge, or if anyone else thought it was an interesting omission.
Well no. In fact they're opposites.
Scorning criticism because "they, of all people..." is textbook ad-hominem. Maybe there's irony there too, but they doesn't seem at first glance what philwelch intended.
In case you didn't know, Jean-Louis Gassée was, along with John Sculley, one of the principal figures who ran Apple into the ground after Jobs left. I find this adds an interesting subtext to his commentary on Apple now. He may very well be right, but it's amusing that he writes publicly about the subject at all.
A good comparison is this letter from Richard Nixon to Ronald Reagan about his handling of the Iran-Contra scandal: http://www.lettersofnote.com/2009/09/let-stillborn-midget-re... Nixon was probably right, but it's amusing that he of all people chose to give unsolicited advice about handling presidential scandals.
Your defense of your first ad hominem is an ad hominem against the HN poster who called you out for it?
sigh...
I found the article to be a quite interesting look at the way that these companies are doing business with and against each other, and how the media makes narratives out of it. There seems to be a lot of truth in it. What JLG uses to good effect in the article is insider anecdotes.
I'm not that close to Apple or JLG that I have strong feelings about either one's point of view, I'm more interested in how the same driving forces will affect everyone.
Do you agree or disagree with the substance here? Try engaging with that.
Bingo. Just because someone maybe didn't mean to imply something doesn't mean they didn't imply it.
http://www.lettersofnote.com/2009/09/let-stillborn-midget-re...
I didn't know I could find something stated so seriously to also be funny and insightful. Thanks for mentioning it, and here's to Tricky Dick.
Ad hominems all the way...
It looks like Tim Cook isn't repeating that mistake - he forced out Scott Forstall to remove a potential challenger (or loose cannon, depending on who you ask). I see the current blandness by Apple as both a consequence of that (necessary, IMO) action, as well as having a missing visionary.