12.05.12
The Purpose Driven Life — Tony Fadell
CNN interviews —
Satan
— the father of the iPod, Tony Fadell, on his new innovation — the smart thermostat that is controlled from your iJunk and learns your heating and cooling habits.
Tony Fadell is a perfect fit for The Purpose Drive Life (see below). As the designer of the iPod he made something that allowed all the money formerly made by the music industry to be given to Apple by laundering through Luxembourg while at the same time making it virtually impossible for musicians except maybe Carly Rae Jepsen, the Gangnam Style dude, and Taylor Swift, to earn any on the company’s industry-controlling jukebox.
No excerpts, the guy’s a crushing bore.
Best comment, ever, though:
When will this be available at ChinaMart?
Unintentional sidesplitter:
I discovered there was your thermostat that controls 50-60% of your energy costs every year — and no one knows how to use them and they’re ugly and frustrating.
If you say so.
I’m taking nominations and suggestions for The Purpose Driven Life. If you have someone you think ought to be part of the series, send a link and a short excerpt you’d like used, plus any snark you think is appropriate.
The purpose of The Purpose Driven Life is to profile the wizards of American tech innovation where all the advances never seem more than trivial but are lauded as game-changers because you can download them, log on or buy them at a consumer electronics Apple-like store. They’re replacements for stuff that already works, only newly controlled by smartphones, useless schemes and software for ripping off society or, in general, things that enrich the geniuses and the shoeshine class but no one else.
DD cannot be nominated for The Purpose Driven Life.
The Purpose Drive Life — from the archives.