Jon Stewart:12 - Steve Jobs:0
Brutal!
The interesting thing here is that it's actually pretty clear that Jon Stewart is a It wasn't supposed to be this way. Microsoft was supposed to be the evil one. But now you guys are busting down doors in Palo Alto, while commandant Gates is ridding the world of mosquitoes. What the f**k is going on? It is all mixed up. I don't know which end is up anymore. Black is white. Cats are dogs.His point is that a large part of the appeal of products from Apple® is that it is, in some manner, sticking it to the man, and that now they are the man.
He also notes that in its corporate paranoia, Apple® ignores the real threats to its products:
I mean, if you wanna break down someone's door, why don't you start with AT&T, for God sakes? They make your amazing phone unusable as a phone! I mean, seriously! How do you drop four calls in a one-mile stretch of the West Side Highway! There're no buildings around! What, does the open space confuse AT&T's signal?!Brutal, particularly when he invokes Apple®'s iconic 1984 ad.
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