Like Al Gore Invented the Internet,
Gordon Reckons A Brit Invented the iPod
In that interview with Fern yesterday Gordon claimed a Brit invented the iPod. Which will come as news to Tony Fadell, born and educated in Michigan. He also claimed hospitals were now clean...
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I think Gordo was probably referring to Jonathan Ive, Apple's design guru. Ive is a Brit, and according to his wikipedia entry, designed the ipod.
Watch the itchy trigger finger.
Like Gordon ended "Boom and Bust"
can you tell us guido whereabouts he says the ipod thing. i just dont fancy listening to 8 minutes of one eyed snot gobbling fucktard of a twat.
He probably means Johnathan Ive
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3481599.stm
He probably means Johnathan Ive
He probably means Jonathan Ive who has had a part to play in the iPod design.
Maybe Gordon was referring to Jonathan Ive CBE. He's from Chingford and seems to have had something to do with the IPod - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Ive
Jonathan Ive designed the case and the packaging of the iPod. Typical new Labour, can't tell the difference between the substance (the electronics and the software) and the presentation (the casing).
What's an ipod?
Like that Berners-Lee bloke who claims credit for the work of hundreds of thousands of people.
Fascinating facts about Tony Fadell inventor of the Apple iPod in 2001.
Nationality : American
Please watch it all the way through. It's a gem. Apparently, due to Gordon's apprenticeship scheme we've now got female plumbers in the UK. (He neglects to mention they all come from Poland. Where is Stanislav, BTW?)
Look at Fern's reaction when Gordon offers to come on the show again and talk about his new apprenticeship scheme at greater length. She shows the enthusiasm you would expect if he offered to give her the Black Death.
PS Guido, are you going to show us the Diane Abbott/Rachel Johnson Sky Tv row on GuyTV?
No-one invented the iPod - it doesn't do anything you can't find in earlier, rival products. I think a first generation iPod is much like the Labour government - devoid of new ideas and the glossy image has long since all been scratched and worn away.
Who's Gordon Brown?
Apple weren't the first company to make an MP3 player. What makes the ipod better than most is the design & user interface. As others have pointed out, this as done by Jonathan Ive who is British
Who's the one eyed one Guido?
He also talked about his disabed son. Which only serves to remind us that the poor kid's dad is a total spacker himself.
...and that bears do not, in fact, shit in the woods.
He probably got this one right, Jonathan Ive was the Head design engineering, and you could argue that the iPod sells on its usability, interface and design more than it's internal hardware. If you really want to chase the science behind the hardware though, you are probably looking at a Frenchman and a German who did the groundwork for the hard drive.
in relation to jonathan ive, he moved to the U.S. way back in 1992 to work with Apple.
hardly a claim of "british" success - its more testament to the success of silicon valley and the american economy.
the famous iPod click-wheel is also produced under licence from Bang And Olufsen who had the idea first. It was not invented by Apple or Jonathan Ive.
Anonymous said...
What's an ipod?
Its what you put your Arctic Monkeys on
Blokat: Berners Lee invented global warming.
Who's Al Gore?
And why does Gordon think he invented the internet?
I think that performance is probably up there with the man's celebration of the 25th anniversary of Countdown. Truly, truly, dreadful.
As Frankie Howerd used to say "Don't mock the afflicted".
Could it be that we have a mentally ill PM? (Asperger's syndrome, autism, whatever?). Any qualified psychiatrists out there who might enlighten us? Is there a "machinery" to deal with a mentally ill PM? I think we know the answer to that one.
The main problem we have in the UK is not so much to do with who invents things, but rather where they are being made: one thing for sure we don't make many things here anymore do we?
Gordon doesn't have an iPod. However, he might have an "iPood" to tell him when his nappy is full.
Jonathan Ive was trained at Northumbria University (Polytechnic as it was then), and was a lead designer * and there is a point in this story that says that there are good things happening across Britain, genuinely world class things, where you might not expect to find them.
The cunt's trick is trying to take credit for something that you've had nothing to do with. At least Al Gore sponsored the bill that provided the finance for DARPAnet. I'm guessing in the late 1980s, GB was voting against the appropriations going to PFC (as was) via the budget.
* (according to the wikipedia entry, which might be a vanity project, I don't have the competence to check IP addresses for amendments)
Everybody knows that the iPod was invented by a NuLabour Minister Dr Jack Cunningham no less to keep himself amused when travelling between his many junkets. Gordon Brown is justifiably proud of this great party achievement, after all what has the Conservative Party ever invented? The ERM and the Cecil Parkinson Willy Warmer. Nope the NuLabour iPod wins by a mile and its fantastic for listening to the great leaders speeches. The best product to come out of Britain since the Morris Marina.
Guido.
No, he was talking about the eye-pod.
has anyone figured out where (minutes/seconds) that the snot gobbler said the "ipod" quote?
Ive's secondary and University (poly) education was entirely under Tory governments. He fucked off to the USA in 92 having seen the writing on the wall for Major.My bet is that he foresaw the eventual emergence of Brown and legged it while the going was good.
What a fool, lies, bullshit and made up facts all through the interview.
How Fern kept a straight face I will never know.
How much of the price of a liter of fuel is tax Gordon ?
Nope he wouldnt even give an answer.
Oil $110 a barrel ? more like $130 call that twat a chancellor ? He cant even read the writing on the wall.
Surely Steve Jobs ought to get the main credit for the iPod?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/26/psion_special/
Maybe Gordon is a psion fan, and was thinking of David Tupman. Unlikely, but nice.
"Apparently, due to Gordon's apprenticeship scheme we've now got female plumbers in the UK"
I have never understood why it is a "good thing" to have female plumbers, or female this or female that. Why is a female doing something (as opposed to a male) the mark of a really good society? Why is it a good thing to be so bloody sexist?
I've only just got round to seeing that "interview".
Holy fuck, what was that all about? Utterly embarrassing!
You can just imagine the spin doctors ("My government without spin", yeah right!) telling Broon to "Look human, a human interest side of you, yes, that wil make voters like you..."
FFS!
######EXCLUSIVE: GORDON BROWN IS FULL OF SHIT#####
Oh, hang on...
I used to work with a guy like Gordon. Everything he said was a lie or a massive distortion of the truth. At first, when he said, "Michaelangelo invented the machine gun" we would go, "O really?" and only subsequently realise it was rubbish. After a while, though, everyone got wise and if he told you it was Tuesday, you knew it wasn't. We are at that stage with Gordon.
Is there no sanction against him for his latest whopper in the Commons herein he said that Wee Wendy doesn't want a referendum?
Brown also thinks he's Prime Minister 'cause Phoney Bliar told him so...can't really blame the poor deluded sucker 'tho - most British voters have fallen for one of Bliar's naughty little practical jokes at one time or another...
Another quick thought: Since eveyone now knows that Gordon 'Mendacity' Brown is incapable of telling the truth, when will we see a TV interviewer lay an elephant trap for him so we can all enjoy seeing him leap into it?
Good old Fern - Jimmy Schoo Jackboot in the McCavity's tender bits...
c. 7.15 in the video, he says there will be lots more jobs coming soon...PM's job, possibly, mmmm???
That jaw wriggling every time he pauses for breath in mid-waffle really drives me mad!!! Maybe he has compulsive-obsessive disorder problems as well as neurological problems. Any medical folk out there with a visual diagnosis?
A Brit invented the ipod in the same way that the the US Navy siezed the Enigma machine and a USAF pilot won the Battle of Britain.
You watch - the British SAS/SBS will be written out of Iraq and Afghanistan by Hollywood too. Blair and Brown will just let it happen unchallenged because they don't give a flying fuck about our troops.
At least for once Gordon credits our intelligence and capabilities, albeit incorrectly. Enjoy it while it lasts.
"can you tell us guido whereabouts he says the ipod thing. i just dont fancy listening to 8 minutes "
Neither did I but you should too, it is good for the soul.
Apart from the ipod,young Fern, who I thought was very good, also explored other areas of Government policy.
She might have bought Gordon to task about who needs 50% of the population to have a University degree and does not an overqualified/under-employed proletariat lead to Revolution ( eg Russia 1917, Persia 1979 & etc. ).
Changing track but still O/T
My neighbours lad did a New Labour College Apprenticeship in Motor Engineering recently. He went to the College for about two thirds of a normal working week; every other week he seemed to be home revising or doing course work at the end of which he would take an exam and then go on to the next 'module'.
For no particular reason I subsequently asked him what he knew about brake shoes to which he replied " erm, dunno, we did them last year."
He passed though thankfully he is now following a different career path.
Learn, Exam, Forget. Nu Lab Apprenticeships.
Yes, that's right:
http://tonyblairoffice.org/
Can we all stop joking for a minute and perhaps call a vote of No Confidence? How would that work? The electorate obviously has no confidence in him so ... ?
Do we really have to wait until next year to get us out of this mess? I said Goodnight Vienna in 1997 and I can't hold on much longer.
The Ipod is like a flattened wash hand basin, but Broon should ask why is it that the UK does not have world class software and consumer electronics companies. like Apple, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. He could also wonder why innovation in this and other fields is so limited, is it because NuLab celebrate the cult of the mediocre and ignorant?
Where are the succesful UK start ups which have developed into listed firms since 1997?
http://www.bruceongames.com/2008/05/09/boris-johnson-mayor-of-london-wrote-idiotic-game-article/
I voted for Boris, please tell me he's not really this ignorant!
the Apprenticeship scheme is a joke. It's just typical Gordon moving funding round again. Colleges now only take 16 yr olds as apprentices because anyone older than that gets bugger all govt funding.
So if you haven't decided on a career before you leave school - forget it because your chance has gone.
And don't think you can get back into education by taking evening classes or day courses for the unemployed either - oh no, all the funding for those has gone too. Hence FE colleges up and down the land are now drowning in dept.
Social exclusion. What's that?
word verification: blks
Fern Britten wipes the floor with Broon
Guido - can you please delete my comment where I posted the youtube link a few minutes ago ("Fern wipes floor with Broon"? I stupidly did not notice you had posted the link in the original article. (silly me)
Fern should do more political interviews.
Her disingenuous style caused Gordon to look right a right wanker.
No surprise there, then, but he could not offer a decent answer to any of her questions. It's all in the future and he feels our pain.
And we must all share the cost of tertiary education. Why? Doesn't a country need well-educated people, then?
Fraser Nelson 6:07pm
A good political story is about to break. Have no idea what, but Westminster's nervous system is twitching. My only information is that it is "big, followable and with us by midnight". Stay tuned.
As others have pointed out, A Brit called Jonathan Ive(s)? is Apple's chief designer and must surely take a huge amount of credit for the success of their products.
Oh crikey. Reading the Carr/Indy link on the right, some Lab MPs are clearly worried about Brown's mental health.
Watch the ITV/Fern Britton interview in Guido's article, and witness a man on the edge. I mean really scarily on the edge.
Retirement on health grounds soon surely.
the bbc associates boris with the bnp....
in ever so subtle ways.
note this story - its about boris meeting bloomberg.
but scroll down and note the photo of the bnp guy.
guilt by association- framing - that is what the leftist bbc are on about. and that is how they will attack boris, rather than HIS record.
utter cunts the BBC... i'd privatise the fucking lot of them.
archduke said...
"the bbc associates boris with the bnp...."
At least the article mentions Boris. It could have been all about the BNP member of the Assembly.
Guido, it is worth reading the entry for Jonathan Ive in Wikipedia HERE.
Brown was partly right (far more so than Al Gore).
The name 'InCapability Brown' has a certain je ne sais quoi, n'est-ce pas? I'm not sure what! Perhaps a suitable tag for the Sub-Prime Minister?
The Game's up, Gordon!
I like the Arctic Monkeys.
And I would listen to them on my iPod, but I threw it against a wall.
This an appeal on behalf of Gordon Brown. Poor Gordon has been so shamed in PMQ's since, well, forever, and help is needed.
Just last week he could not give an answer to the Wendy-SNP-Bring it on, question.
He said 'she never said that'.
Well clearly that is pathetic, even by his own very pathetic standards.The PLP and SpaDs are totally ineffective against wit, and Gordon himself can only handle large figures or small words.
He could have said .. 'Yes its true, we are not afraid' or 'Wee Windy is right to challenge..' or even 'Salmond is as afraid of an election as I am'
So please, this week, we KNOW that Mr Cameron will ask him
"Even Tony Blair has been called in to give you advice. Can't you decide anything on your own you ditherer?" or similar.
So please, for the sake of little Fraser, help to give his dad some dignity and let me hijack this post to ask you to supply a response.
A witty one liner will cause a 2% swing to Labour.
A comment containing a soundbite about Boris could help reduce the scale of the 42 day detention defeat by 13 or more.
A perfect fightback tag line could stop the knives appearing in his back on Thursday.
So please, dear blogger, give a line to Gordon and help prevent another humiliating fold-up of a much maligned public figure.
You can post directly here or make out a witticism and take it to a post office if you can find one.
Even a feeble 'up yours Dave' will surely be better than another tractor figures response. So please, post generously and help end this tragedy.
[I AM GORDON BROWN AND I APPROVE THIS MESSAGE]
Fern talks to Brown like a sympathetic care home assistant.
Quite appropriate really.
Hospitals? C;ean? This is credulous LibLabCon trash, you should know better. You cannot "deap clean away" superbugs..
Forget the iPod claim, what really pisses me off is the claim to be creating jobs. No government ever creates jobs. It may create employment within the state sector, but these are not necessarily, in fact rarely are jobs. Only the private sector creates jobs.
This 'Big Lie' technique is endemic among lefty twats like Brown. They chose a factoid about which they are confident their interlocutor or general audience knows nothing, exagerate it or just downright make it up, and state it as a fact. The honest interlocutor, not wishing and not able to call the speaker a liar, has to accept the factoid.
Then you go away look it up and hey presto, whadayano it was a lie. But of course it's too late and you've 'lost' the argument.
In every discussion in all of my life with nearly every, but not quite all, lefties they persist in doing this. Gordon does it all the time. Eventually, as in now, and especially if you are in the public domain it will catch up with them as it has with Gordon the Moron.
Interviewers of Brown are just beginning to realise all this and the less sympathetic or smarter are getting more and more sceptical of him. Sooner or later they will start treating him with scorn, if he keps on like this, which he will.
As far as the UK's international reputation is concerned the same comments apply. Our peer group of statesman will also see through Brown and our international stock will plummet.
Sorry, re-reading all that looks a bit boring.
Oh fuck it. Just fuck off Gordon.
Hey, what about a 'Fuck off Gordon' T shirt campaign?
This:-
http://thelastofthefew.blogspot.com/2008/05/quote-of-week-from-our-esteemed-friend.html
Says it all about socialism.
Lola said...
"No government ever creates jobs. .. Only the private sector creates jobs."
Do you not understand that when a government, of whatever complexion, talks about creating jobs they mean enhancing the economic or social conditions which will lead to an increase in the number of jobs?
Ive did create the iPod, what he did not create was the portable MP3 player. The iPod made the MP3 player usable by everyone. The simplicity of the interface is often not respected. It was groundbreaking. Simplicity is very hard.
I bought an MP3 player ages ago, and it was the best at the time - a Samsung Yepp64,as in MB. Whoopee-doo. 20 songs max. AAA batteries, crap software to transfer songs that took an age. Buttons everywhere. Chaos.
Then out came the iPod. I bought the first gen on the first day it was out in Hong Kong where I lived Dec2001. I still have it. It still works. 1000 songs. Lightning fast Firewire connection and iTunes interface. Fat as a pack of cards. At the time people did not "get it".
Anon said
"o you not understand that when a government, of whatever complexion, talks about creating jobs they mean enhancing the economic or social conditions which will lead to an increase in the number of jobs
I'm sure she does realise this as you surely realise that more the benign the government ie the fewer the less regulations, the smaller the tax take, and generally the less interference then the more chance the productive side of the economy has to create real jobs that create wealth and provide the money for beneficial public spending. Im sure you realise that don`t you Anon, pity the cunt Brown and leftie tossers don`t, sitting in their publicly provided & pension cushioned, non jobs half the bleeeding time.
More worrying than this is:
a) that he was stooppid enough to go on This Morning in the first place - though given his personality and current standing in the polls I would have been better talking to Denise rather than Fern.
b) though I was really worried for his mental health, when his little face lit up and he said, "shared equity is really interesting" - he might have said exciting, which is worse - it was at this point I realised that Gordon Brown is in fact a robot, which would explain why he is not in touch with not only the British people but the human race.
To think that This Morning wasted time on this person, when they could have been talking about which wine to drink with your gas bill. Or 101 ways of using old tights to keep a pensioner warm - now that the 10p tax thing has made the winter fuel payments meaningless - my favourite idea being that the pensioner wear them as a mask and go and do a post office raid - assuming that there are any post offices left by next winter.
Paul B said...
re Lola
"I'm sure she does realise '''"
I think you will find that this Lola is a He not a She.
Here's the scoop.
Jonathon Ive was an exact contemporary of mine and we both studied Product/industrial design at Northern
Polys.
1. Britain long led the world in
Graphics/Product/Fashion/Textile and Interior design. All these course were only available at the Polys, though in many the Polys had just taken over
established art colleges.
2. Because there was no competition from Universities, the Poly art courses were peopled by the best of the best.
3. When Ive and I studied, the average class size was around 25 and we had access to well-equipped workshops and technicians.
4. The courses were also free and I received a full
grant from Maggie.
5. Since then, Labour has fucked the whole system.
Massively increasing class sizes (over a 100 per year on some design courses) means your chance of a good training is massively reduced. And the buggers have the cheek to charge tuition fees for a much, much worse course.
6. Under the Tories, you could get a world-class
design training for free, money to live off and lots
of talent from humble homes was liberated.
7. Under Labour, you get a shit course, pay a fortune for it and then find the value of your degree is much devalued.
8. Johathon Ive is the product of Conservative
education policy.
After 11 years of Labour, it won't be a Brit who comes up with the next world-changing product concept.
Anon writes
I think you will find that this Lola is a He not a She.
So, I have got x rays that can see down fecking copper wires you pedantic twat.
He or she (non offence Lola) still makes a very good point, and rather than preening yourself thinking how very clever you are,how about you address the issue. Twat.
PaulBollocks said...
"So, I have got x rays that can see down fecking copper wires you pedantic twat."
You are obviously new to this blog. Grow up.
Which just gos to show hes a an ignorant prat
Anon wrote
"You are obviously new to this blog. Grow up"
Which only goes to show that not only are you a hissy pedant, but you are also a supercilious farty old windbag. If by maturing means, it means I would become like you, then I will stay as I am thank you.
Now would you like to address the point I originally made, or do you have to toddle off on your zimmer and change you colostomy bag.
In reply to an Anon who wrote
"Which just gos to show hes a an ignorant prat"
My problem here is I don`t know if you are a different person from the original Anon I was addressing, as you all (The Anons) look and sound alike, (incidentally your very name depicts you out as a coward) but if it is a second anon, attempting to gang up on me, a question-have problems getting a hard on do you,nob end? Fuck off and play the traffic
re the question that a few people have raised: "Could it be that we have a mentally ill PM?"...
I'd like to know the answer to that too. I don't personally think he's mentally ill in the everyday sense of the meaning.
"Mentally ill" generally seems to mean that someone has *developed* a condition (either physically in the brain due to constant (re)enforcement or a stroke/accident etc, or chemically, or a combination of both)
Whereas "disabled" would be more in line with some kind of birth defect (ie the original make-up of your brain at the time of birth).
I don't know the details, but my guess would be that Gordon Brown would be better described as "disabled" rather than "mentally ill".
Offhand I'd guess that his core disability is that he's a natural born sociopath (unable to empathise with anyone, basically the same as what everybody else describes as "not human", ie more like a goldfish than a chimp), and that that core disability is what's causing all the mentally ill symptoms (such as frustration when he can't understand what other people say/mean)
It's a big subject this one; judging by what I've read about him and seen from his own actions/utterances, he's self-evidently a sociopath; I can't think of any other way to explain the things he does/says. In the real world when you meet people like that, you just stay well clear of them because a person who can't empathise with other people is often infinitely more dangerous than someone who's just mentally ill, as you can never reason with a sociopath.
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