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Inquirer booboo, for the nth time

PDI booboo
PDI booboo
Yet another booboo (note I didn't say "bobo") of the Phil Daily Inquirer. If the reporter had only read carefully the CPP's press release, he would have promptly noted the reasons given for the delay. I give this particular reporter the benefit of the doubt, seeing as the competition is brutally fierce among online news sites on who's the first to out a story. But I personally know one particular reporter who really writes distortions on purpose, and nonchalantly at that.
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For me, Apple means Wozniak, Alexan, and Obet

Doing piegraph on Apple ][ clone
An Apple II clone used two external floppy disk drives – one for the system or program disk, the other for the data files. The monitor could be a plain TV set or a green monochromatic CRT display.

Let me get this straight. Like the rest of the world touched by Apple computers and devices, I mourn the loss of Steve Jobs, as a very intelligent person, and as a visionary designer and marketing guru. But much of the tributes I read coming out after his death are too effusive and at the same time generic, mostly saying nothing new and simply repeating what has already been said in recent years.

To be honest, within a few hours after his death was announced, I had started to suffer a surfeit of tributes to Jobs. At the same time, these tributes lead me to think about how my own computer philosophy was shaped by Apple, however indirectly and incompletely.

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