I’ve always known Slashdot is filled with engineeritis-infected morons, yet I still go there anyway.

This black hole of moronity really reveals itself when any talk of Apple comes up.

If you listen to the hosers over there, Apple had nothing at all to do with the smartphone market taking off, nothing at all to do with kickstarting phone innovation, it was all an historic accident and marketing.

Strangely, an historic accident that Apple somehow keeps repeating over and over.

I agree that Apple doesn’t invent a lot of things. No, they do something better. They take something already invented – and refine it, then perfect it.

Invention is overrated, anyway.

I used a pre-Apple smartphone. It was an utter, utter piece of crap. One of my bosses at work had one. It was just terrible, to say the least.

There’s also the perennial complaint that “Apple is just the first to market.”

As if that’s nothing.

But yes, we have a name for this. When someone runs a marathon, we definitely have a name for someone who is first over the finish line.

We call her the fucking “winner.”