The Macalope Weekly: Executive summary

10.09.2011

Steve Jobs didn't invent the iPod. And what is the iPhone except an iPod Touch that's been wired up? What's an iPad but a really big iPhone?

What's a Benz if not a fancy Kia? What's a shoe if not a glorified sock? What's Edward R. Murrow if not Kyle Smith with integrity and talent?

A few months ago I walked by my local Apple store--a gleaming transparent palace that looks like a drop of sweat from the gods frozen into a perfect ice cube as it fell to earth...

Seriously, what is the matter with you?

...and encountered a long line of what (in an only slightly different context) George Harrison termed the "Apple Scruffs."