Dコンファレンス登場のスティーヴ・ジョブズ: マスターだ

Watching Jobs work his way through nearly 90 minutes of interview and audience questions, I really felt, for the first time, a sense of how strongly the guy feels for his work and his products. Then again, I found myself angry, several times. Angry when he championed the press as crucial to democracy, and implied the iPad would save our country from "descending into a nation of bloggers" (my view: we started as a nation of bloggers - pamphleteers like Thomas Paine). Angry when he defended Apple's data practices - to an investor in Flurry, no less - as protecting users' privacy, when in fact it's clearly about controlling data to Apple's benefit to win advertisers, developers, and market share (you can certainly protect privacy AND share data. That's the basis of the web, and, by the way, the basis of culture. But that's another post). Angry when he claimed that Apple was the only company doing mobile ads that didn't suck, when in fact they've been done the way iAds is doing it for nearly a year by third parties.

But I was also inspired.
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