tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-529575095156315075.post8623599288777558452..comments2024-02-09T12:12:37.636-08:00Comments on best minimum wage job a middle aged guy ever had: More SKU's, please.Duncan McGearyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02857388833850939721noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-529575095156315075.post-38148445496580138652011-10-20T08:49:59.228-07:002011-10-20T08:49:59.228-07:00"Apple is the ultimate cult, glad to see you ..."Apple is the ultimate cult, glad to see you finally be honest hbm."<br /><br />I've always said that.<br /><br />"In the face of failure the cult of Bend hangs on."<br /><br />I've said that too.<br /><br />"Why the fuck is hbm still there?"<br /><br />Because he's waiting for his wife to retire, at which point he and his wife will be free to move away. I've said this before too, many times.H. Bruce Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14613347512240617956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-529575095156315075.post-7278598475156644182011-10-19T16:05:34.009-07:002011-10-19T16:05:34.009-07:00I shopped for an undercounter can opener a few yea...I shopped for an undercounter can opener a few years ago. There were several models in the store. <br /><br />"...design is meant to replace the old with the new and that sometimes there is no more reason for it than that..."<br /><br />Yeah. You know that the basic electric undercounter can opener was invented back in the '40s or something, and over the decades they would have improved it to the point where it was effective, clean, and dependable. Instead, money continues to be spent on new designs rather than refining something that has already proven itself.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-529575095156315075.post-68666969319998467642011-10-19T15:25:15.565-07:002011-10-19T15:25:15.565-07:00Apple is the ultimate cult, glad to see you finall...Apple is the ultimate cult, glad to see you finally be honest hbm.<br /><br />Steve Jobs always was the ultimate asshole, and his whore side kick jewelery salesman guy kawasaki that Bend cult loves so much.<br /><br />In fact I find it easy to say that Bend is a cult as much as Apple. In the face of failure the cult of Bend hangs on.<br /><br />Why the fuck is hbm still there?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-529575095156315075.post-66024750886603387042011-10-19T12:38:11.642-07:002011-10-19T12:38:11.642-07:00"It makes the whole "cheap" argumen..."It makes the whole "cheap" argument kind of bogus, when things could be designed to last and not constantly replaced."<br /><br />Back in the '50s and '60s Detroit called it "planned obsolescence." The term is no longer used, but the marketing strategy still is.<br /><br />Witness the Apple cultists lined up on the sidewalks outside Apple stores waiting to get the latest and (supposedly) greatest incarnation of the iPhone.H. Bruce Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14613347512240617956noreply@blogger.com