Stephen Fry: Steve Jobs
You know, I'm generally a huge fan of Fry's, but this article left much to be desired.  He was simply factually wrong on a great many points.<p>"If different companies are making the firmware, software, chips, screens, operating system, radios and cases the results will always be far less coherent and usable devices."<p>I hope he's just being sloppy with his language (unlikely for Fry) and not <i>actually</i> suggesting that Apple makes all of these components.  The latter would suggest an insufficient level of familiarity with the products he extols to be taken seriously.  He sounds very much like the ignorant "fanboi" he laments that some will call him.<p>"The frustratingly silly patent wars that are raging around the world between Google, Samsung, Apple and dozens of other companies would be a sad obsequy to Jobs’s colossal achievements, but with such gigantic sums of money in so huge a market at stake it is little wonder that others will do all they can to “crack” Apple."<p>What?  He seems to think that Apple is the <i>defensive</i> party in the patent mess?  Again, a disconnect from reality that is disappointing from someone I hold in such high regard.<p>I usually quite enjoy Fry's writing, but this piece was sloppy and poorly-researched, if indeed it was researched at all.  Disappointing.