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But to get the full flavor of the train wreck that is Steve Ballmer in 2010 — a salesman whose only answer to technological change seems to be the operating system he inherited from Bill Gates — you might want to hear the quotes in context. The webcast of his performance is available here. We’ve taken the 12 iPad-related paragraphs from the transcript and pasted them below:

Steve Ballmer on the iPad: The transcript - Apple 2.0 - Fortune Tech

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Apple’s products frequently don’t win on a feature-by-feature comparison, to which Apple fans tend to reply that sealed batteries have turned out to be not so bad in practice, that we can actually find all the software we want for our iOS devices no matter how philosophically objectionable the App Store is, and that we really don’t care that the iPad has no USB port and that the iPhone cannot be used as a wifi hotspot, HD projector and five-speed blender. There is a large subset of tech users who go into apoplectic fits at that, seeing it as proof that we’re brainwashed morons. So be it.
Coyote Tracks: The Emperor’s New Antenna (Coyote Tracks: The Emperor’s New Antenna) (via Instapaper)

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marco:

Dan Savage’s thoughts on the moral outrage about ‘sexting’ (via inky, mappeal)

Fair warning: This contains a lot of profanity. If that offends you or if you are in an environment where that could get you in trouble, keep scrolling.

It’s a generational paranoia because young people are doing something that old people didn’t, because they couldn’t, and now can’t, because no one wants to see them naked.

He makes some very good points about what each generation considers acceptable and how the outrage over “sexting” is itself so often rooted in sexism and the control and perceived ownership of women.