Whining About AAPL's Hegemony
Jim Goldman, of CNBC , has a recent post where he takes former Fake Steve Jobs blogger, Dan Lyons , to task. The piece is here . In short, Lyons claims that Apple has become increasingly hegemonic in its own right, no longer the upstart ( jeesh , I guess I can't use "maverick" now). Lyons even makes the stale way-past played out comparison of Apple as Microsoft. On a side note, such rhetorical maneuvers are so tired and preposterous. It's kind of like when someone is "describing" a band and they say: "Oh, they're alternative/folk-punk/ emo /whatever and they sound like REM/The Deadly Syndrome/Bright Eyes/blah". Or, do you ever get tired of the claims when basketball season rolls around and there's that guy who always says that so-and-so is the next Jordan. Even if band, ballers , companies are similar or analogous to other earlier instances and contexts, is this really the best and most incisive way to describe commonalities? Maybe, ...