I think Steve Jobs lives on an entirely different planet

The reality distortion field is one thing, it's well documented and always presumed to eminate out, from Steve to us. I think there's another field acting on him. The NYT got some time with his ego-ness and more or less everything he had to say was such a load of horse crap, it almost made me want to go buy a Dell.

It's bad enough iPods have to be so tiny they don't hold a music library, but get to be called "the thinnest blah ever" a Title he seems to want for all his gear. And Now the MacBook Air, a very expensive "device" that looks like a laptop.

"Still, the machine is a reversal of field for Mr. Jobs, who in the past has insisted that less-than-full-featured laptops are undesirable."

Uh, that's still the case... Sure it'll sell, it's an iProduct, but people want useful AND sexy. Sexy alone is just lame and over priced, look at Bang & Olufson. I'd deck my whole house out in their stuff... but it's 8x the price and not more useful.

"Some of the competitors’ machines are so flimsy, he said, they require a fifth or even sixth pad to keep from sagging."

Well, that's good, I'm glad the MBA only needs four pads, I've been thinking, "There's just too much pad being used by these flimsy WinTel machines."

“It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore,” he said. “Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last year. The whole conception is flawed at the top because people don’t read anymore.”

Ok Sure. A lot of folks don't read. A few never read, a few even don't know how. 40%? I think that's an exageration. I find it funny, that since no one reads, Apple isn't interested in eBooks, however "no one" was buying music in the numbers they are now, prior to the iPod, and "no one" wanted a phone with out a tactile keyboard prior to the iPhone, so I'm sure that when Steve decides the world is ready to read again, Apple will be all over eBooks, until he's decided that though, it's a terrible idea, doomed to fail. Sheesh

"Having created a phone its a lot harder than it looks,” he said. “We’ll see how good their software is and we’ll see how consumers like it and how quickly it is adopted.”

LOL, "having created a phone..." Yeah Steve, Apple is an old hand at handset manufacturing now. And uh, in case no one told you, the iPhone is probably more unlocked and Jailbroken, than it is not. I recall a load like "People don't want third party apps, They want a stable OS" speaking of phones, turns out, yeah most want third party apps, especially if you're not gonna provide any yourself. Also turns out, a "stable OS" is harder to accomplish too, since the iPhone isn't V1 any more..

It sucks, I'm really started to get tired of Apple and Steve's ego in product creation. I'm sure when Steve reached Shambala and lists his accomplishments and being the creator of the thinnest (every piece of tech ever) will be impressive, but consumers, in general, I don't think car... Shit look how many SUVs are on the market still...