Total clickbait with little substance, lets focus on something:
"So if Apple can’t keep one of its earliest employees happy...", that entire sentiment is based around the idea that Apple shouldn't do anything that's going to upset what's a very small (but vocal) group of users. That's stupid. That's some of the stupidest business advice ever.
Also, the falling on face test is a relatively good idea but it'll still hurt no matter the size unless it weighs sod all.
Um... the (short) article was filled with substance. There's a big block quote from Kawasaki right in the middle where he talks about all the specific things he likes about Android.
Now, those are all high level things everyone here will be familiar with. So maybe the article is mis-targetted. And the headline is clearly designed to inflame. So you can argue about that if you want.
But saying that Kawasaki's opinions have no value is just weird, and sounds like sour grapes to me. The guy was the official Mac evangelist for literally decades. Clearly his opinions are newsworthy.
The quote is substance, but the entire article lacks substance. Just quoting something does not a substantial article make. There's so little discussion or analysis that they could have just posted the quote and said "Argue in the comments".
Whenever one of these things floats up like "Woz likes Android! News at 11" I constantly slap myself on the forehead when it's taken super seriously, as Apple now is so far removed from what it was even 15 years ago. Is it surprising that people involved decades ago think it's not the same, or have moved onto something else? No. Not even a bit.
What? No, that's just wrong. The job of a journalist is to collect hard-to-find information and give it to the public; the "analysis" part is just a nice-to-have. If Kawasaki had written that on a blog post, then the article would be dumb and we should have linked there. But he didn't, he gave that quote to a journalist. And it's a good, interesting, substantial quote that the public wants to read. Thus it's useful to write about even if you have nothing to add, because it distributes the useful quote to the public.
Really, it still sounds to me like you're just upset about reading bad news about Apple.
Actually I stopped getting upset when I read anything negative about Apple when I realised I didn't care enough to feel negative. And I still think they squandered an opportunity for some really good, solid journalism. My opinion of course.
Agreed, and the articles about Woz saying Android is better are also more of the same. Given the number of column inches of coverage I'm surprised I've not seen a more rigorous set of metrics observe, I wonder if I'm just missing them in all the noise.
"So if Apple can’t keep one of its earliest employees happy...", that entire sentiment is based around the idea that Apple shouldn't do anything that's going to upset what's a very small (but vocal) group of users. That's stupid. That's some of the stupidest business advice ever.
Also, the falling on face test is a relatively good idea but it'll still hurt no matter the size unless it weighs sod all.