Bill Burr on 'Entrepreneurs'

[The Intransigent Faction]

OK so it's more specifically about Steve Jobs, but someone shared this with me and I thought it captured a socialist perspective on innovation in capitalism pretty well:

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[Futility Personified]

Can't stand the audience or the presenter. I don't know why what Bill Burr saying seems like such a leap of faith.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

The real "genius" behind Steve Job and Apple is to do with marketing and branding.

It doesn't take a prodigy to combine features that have been around for decades (touchscreens, digital music storage etc) into a shiny consumer item that everyone is then encouraged to want through saturation advertising. It takes teams of market researchers, public relations types and other disgusting parasites working together to convince trendy idiots to part with their money for crap engineering.

Apple and their imitators have turned digital technology into a fucking fashion accessory, and that's just one of the reasons I fucking hate them and their products.

[Full Metal Bolshevik]

Video not avaliable in my country.

Fuck the uploader.

[Brandon's Impotent Rage]

Steve Wozniak was the genius behind Apple. Jobs was just a glorified paper pusher who got lucky.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

Video not avaliable in my country.

Fuck the uploader.

It may not necessarily be the uploader's fault. My understanding is that certain US TV networks block clips of their shows from being seen outside the US. Something to do with advertising, I think - since Google are the ones supplying the ads, the networks can't make money off ads that Google targets at say, UK viewers.

Although why that should still apply to international brands which sell globally, I have no idea.

Blame capitalism, as always.