Credit Where Credit Isn’t Due: Media Worship of Steve Jobs
Apple has absolutely kicked ass in the last 5-10 years. iPod, iPhone, iPad, Macbook, and the last couple versions of MacOS. All huge hits and deservedly so.
Is it really so hard to just stop there? Is it really necessary to start giving Apple credit for things they don’t deserve any credit for?
Apparently for the media cultists who worship Steve Jobs like a god, it is indeed necessary:
Apple’s Steve Jobs revolutionized TV too
Sorry, he didn’t.
“While the VCR and later the DVR already started to free viewers from being held hostage to network schedules, iTunes and the platforms that followed took it to the next level.”
Total bullshit. The DVR is what killed “appointment television.” NOTHING else deserves credit. Everything else simply rode the coat-tails of the DVR. Period.
DVR ownership is expected to break 50% of all households next year. That’s ~200 million daily DVR users.
After DVRs, Netflix played a HUGE role by letting people cheaply rent entire seasons of tv shows. Far, far cheaper than buying them in iTunes.
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