It makes my brain hurt how dumb Scoble is. I've never done any heroin in my life, but every time I read Scoble it makes me want to find the fattest, rustiest needle I can, load it with heroin mixed with whatever mystery powders I can find, and jam the whole works as far as it will go right through my eyeball into an artery deep in my brain. Because feeling my brain dying from an intraventricular brain injection of way too much heroin, comet bleach, and flea powder would be better than how I feel after reading Scoble.
In this case, I want to replace my cerebrospinal fluid with dangerous narcotics and harsh industrial chemicals because of two particular stupid as fuck comments.
"We will never get an open Web back if these two deals happen."
Um. No. We will. Because microo!softbook will be a monstrous nightmare that will be plagued by a Vista-like level of incompetence of creating applications that are pleasant to use. Meanwhile, cool young people, who all have macs anyway, having realized that while their parents had to use shitty computers, they don't, will have already eschewed microsoft before it became the sterile chimera microo!softbook, will stop using facebook, because, hey, it's 2009 or 2010 and facebook was so 2003. Besides, it turns out that Ning in better and closer to the maclike good experience they expect anyway.
"This has created HUGE value for Microsoft and has handed Steve Ballmer an Internet strategy which brings Microsoft from last place to first in less than a week."
Um...this hasn't created any value. It certainly doesn't bring them into first place in a week. How do I know? Because I'm not a moron like scoble. In order for this to work, steve ballmer would have to successfully execute this strategy. Steve Ballmer is too disconnected from the experience of the end user to do this. He is not able to be the visionary and he's also not able to correctly recognize either this flaw, or the person who he should delegate the job too, as evidenced by the massive failures in Vista and the X-Box production problems. I don't mean to be trashing Ballmer, he's done extremely well for himself, but he can't lead this battle, and hasn't been great at delegating to people who can. God is in the details. Ballmer can't make them work.
That a guy who basically got his start licking microsoft's asshole with his tongue in public thinks it might work doesn't mean much.
In this case, I want to replace my cerebrospinal fluid with dangerous narcotics and harsh industrial chemicals because of two particular stupid as fuck comments.
"We will never get an open Web back if these two deals happen."
Um. No. We will. Because microo!softbook will be a monstrous nightmare that will be plagued by a Vista-like level of incompetence of creating applications that are pleasant to use. Meanwhile, cool young people, who all have macs anyway, having realized that while their parents had to use shitty computers, they don't, will have already eschewed microsoft before it became the sterile chimera microo!softbook, will stop using facebook, because, hey, it's 2009 or 2010 and facebook was so 2003. Besides, it turns out that Ning in better and closer to the maclike good experience they expect anyway.
"This has created HUGE value for Microsoft and has handed Steve Ballmer an Internet strategy which brings Microsoft from last place to first in less than a week."
Um...this hasn't created any value. It certainly doesn't bring them into first place in a week. How do I know? Because I'm not a moron like scoble. In order for this to work, steve ballmer would have to successfully execute this strategy. Steve Ballmer is too disconnected from the experience of the end user to do this. He is not able to be the visionary and he's also not able to correctly recognize either this flaw, or the person who he should delegate the job too, as evidenced by the massive failures in Vista and the X-Box production problems. I don't mean to be trashing Ballmer, he's done extremely well for himself, but he can't lead this battle, and hasn't been great at delegating to people who can. God is in the details. Ballmer can't make them work.
That a guy who basically got his start licking microsoft's asshole with his tongue in public thinks it might work doesn't mean much.