What is it about Bono? Truly, I haven't much enjoyed any of the tributes to Steve Jobs, but Bono's is the worst. Uniformity of opinion scares me and there is that in it which immediately makes the benefactor less human.
For instance, I am a huge Lennon fan but still made sure to label him a wife beating, Oedipal complexed, junkie. Indeed, my father, who died when I was 16 years and whom I idolized, I have never had the slightest doubt that he was extremely flawed in many ways. Fools love Gods, Wise people love fellow human beings.
Bono is a fools fool, he has a list of his heroes and it's all the usual suspects: MLK, JFK, EP, JL… pride in the name of huffing and puffing and now he can add Steve Jobs to his hit list. In one of the stupidest catechisms known to man, Bono said this: "We will all miss the hardware software Elvis."
What a stupid phrase, what meaningless garbage.
"What made Steve Jobs truly great is that he was only interested in doing truly great things. He was bored by an easy ride or easy profit. In a world littered with dull objects, he brought the beauty of clean lines and clear thought. This rhyme of intellect and intuition could be applied to a wide range of subjects from the US education system, to sculpture, to the fight against HIV/AIDS where his support of (RED) literally transformed the lives of two million people in Africa."
Bored by easy profits? Jobs??? Let's get it right, Jobs brought together some of the finest tech heads in the world and created a beautiful way to distribute and play songs (I know about IPADS and IPHONES but my interest remains on Ipods and itunes). This was as revolutionary as, I dunno, CDs (nowhere near as revolutionary as vinyl). Tech companies were tinkering with the way to do it and Jobs beat em to it and did it brilliantly.
But then what?
What if he didn't? What would he have been? And how does loud mouth Bono add to the conversation?
Would MP3s have died without him Jobs? Would pcs in your cell phones never have happened? Jobs, like any very successful person, straddled the line between a successful meme and a great man.
And by the way, ITUNES Music will be dead with a decade, maybe only 5 years, one way or the other the future of music lies in streaming. I seldom use Itunes. I have no need for it. A song here or there that they have exclusive rights to but that is all.
So Steve Jobs tech visionary of the beginning of the 21st Century will never last as long as Presley or CDs have.
And Bono? He is a complete fucking plank.