Bill Gates may have been the satiric target of the "1984" commercial, but did he ever push his monopoly power as far?

And now we're into the "getting basic facts wrong" part of the piece. Bill Gates was not the target of the ad; it was IBM. Nobody knew who the heck Microsoft was in 1984.

As Jobs steps down, the communicants of the Holy Church of Steve--these supposed rationalists and science lovers--mumble pardons and shrug their shoulders at all of his sinister doings.

"Sinister doings"? Dude, your complaints about the company amount to "they put young people in their ads and people like their products." Seriously, what is with these scolds who feel the need to lecture people about how that popular thing they like is really terrible and, mark their words, it'll come to no good!?

This piece is stuffed with so many religion metaphors it probably qualifies for tax exemption. If Steve Jobs is "Mr. Burns in a turtleneck" as Smith proclaims, Smith is .