Is Steve Jobs More Obnoxious Than A 5th Grader?

Full disclosure: my phone is a T-Mobile G1, running Android 1.6; I own one Asus netbook and use another at work; all but one of my computers run Windows. Yet I own a Macbook, an iPod from virtually every line going back to the black & white pre-video days, an iPod Touch that I can't live without, and the iPad that I'm writing this blog on at this very moment.

Steve Jobs needs to stop acting like a 5th grader and more like the CEO of a highly successful company.

I am sick and tired of hearing Steve Jobs trash his competitors' products in the process of promoting his own. "We don't know how to build a sub-$500 computer that's not a piece of junk." "Netbooks aren't better at anything." "Folks who want porn can buy an Android phone."

First, the netbook. I run music education software for all of my classes, kindergarten through 5th grade, plus Microsoft Office 07 and iTunes daily without a problem. (In fact, it's the Windows version of iTunes that is slow and sluggish, even on my "big" computers at home.) I can count on one hand the number of times my Asus has crashed in 2 years. Just because Apple doesn't know how to do it doesn't mean that nobody else can.

Obviously, I like Apple's products. In fact, if the iPhone wasn't exclusive to AT&T, I'd have one instead of my G1. The iPhone is still the most popular smartphone out there, with sales outpacing all of the others combined. In fact, Mr. Jobs pointed this out during an Apple keynote. So why the nonsense about porn in the Android market? Is this simply an extension of Apple's feud with Google?

Steve Jobs's trash talk is making Apple look like the captain of the high school football team: top of the heap, but picking on the lesser students to make himself look even better. You may be insecure, Mr. Jobs, but your products aren't. Let the i-line speak for itself.