Comments on: Malcolm Gladwell Bitchslaps Chris Anderson

By: Sigivald

Sigivald — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:47:14 +0000

Heh. The update wasn't on my screen when I posted. (Load bunch of tabs, work through, repeat...)

I do try to read the whole thing before posting!

By: Vega

Vega — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:14:27 +0000

People who subscribe to this crap are probably the same idiots who go on about how Apple is ripping everybody off just because some ignorant analystards at isuppli have said the iPhones material cost is only $3.50 or something. And because we all now engineering, software development, administration, distribution and all the other things Apple does come for free, the iPhone should only be $3.55.

Oh, and I bet a Venn-diagram of the "content should be free"-cheapskates and the "I can build a computer with the same specs as a Mac for less than half price"-douchebags looks like two fucking concentric circles, aka a sphincter.

By: The Angry Drunk

The Angry Drunk — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:22:22 +0000

Bing Bing Bing Bing

Give the man a prize. I was keeping this argument in reserve for when the freetards inevitably show up. Anderson, like every freetard before him only considers the delivery costs, never the total cost of production. My ideas have worth (market willing) regardless of whether they are sent via IP packets, printed on paper, or carved on fucking golden plates.

By: John C. Welch

John C. Welch — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:03:06 +0000

Just finished reading it. Anderson is yet another utopian douchebag who thinks that unless there's an obvious materials cost up front, everything costs nothing to make. And infrastructure? That's paid for and maintained by yet another fucking magic beanfield.

By: The Angry Drunk

The Angry Drunk — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:54:15 +0000

Read the update And no, I still won’t be reading it. My time is equally unfree, and I have better things to do with it than read cybertopian twaddle.

By: Sigivald

Sigivald — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:47:10 +0000

I’ll read Chris’s tripe the very day he decides to post it online free of charge.

So, according to Gruber's latest note, you'll be doing it on July 9?