“Steve Jobs… is responsible for… modern marketing, which focuses exclusively on style to the detriment of functionality, usability, content, depth, etc”?

You couldn’t be more wrong to blame Steve for what you consider the focus of modern marketing.

Steve Jobs is the reason why the iPod is so eminently functional, usable, and has the largest music store to back it up (content AND depth).

I’ve owned several MP3 players, both flash and drive-based - and I’ve stopped using all but the iPod, because it’s the easiest to use.

That’s not a failure. That’s brilliance. And Steve Jobs is cited as the fellow driving the brilliance.

Coincidence..or something sinister perhaps?

Wozniak did all the work, and Steve took all the credit. Steve was a good marketer, and that’s it.

Sadly, he more than anyone else is responsible for the shallow depravity of modern marketing, which focuses exclusively on style to the detriment of functionality, usability, content, depth, etc.

So many people are overlooking that very important point on this story.

Rex, you moron. American example!

Your father didn’t do your mom right impregnating her with a defective semen to have a freak like you think the way you do.

I tried to find as many vid clips of Zuckerberg online as I can and unfortunately there’s really not that many. I tried so hard to make it through that F8 keynote but minute 5 I just wanted to make a post on my Facebook account saying I’ve committed suicide and bash my head against a wall because of how boring and grating it was.

As for having beef, this is akin to Apple suing Microsoft for ripping off the GUI. I guess the point is: you can’t sue over a concept but you sure can sue if you prove legitimate IP rights was violated. The trump card for ConnectU would be to prove that at various stages of Facebook, actual code was harvested and used and that, irregardless of what Facebook looks like now, should make Facebook culpable.

chris @ http://www.frostfirebuzz.com - Internet News

Rex

Steve Jobs is a creative genius from a modest background who took on significant personal risk to create an entire new market for home computers.

Mark Zuckerberg is from a wealthy background (They don’t let just any one into Excelsior & Harvard), stole the premise of facebook from the connectU guys (even if the lawsuit fails, he worked for a college oriented social network before he started facebook), (maybe) stole the source code from them too, took no risk in starting facebook (Harvard lets students take time off), and in the end facebook is at best a re-hash of friendster.

Zuckerberg is in many ways the antithesis of everything Steve Jobs represents.

I think Zuckerberg is the next coming of Steve Jobs based on reading the thousands of posts about him. Don’t ever bash either of them or you will end up with cement boots in the hudson river.