Friday, December 9, 2011

iCON i?




For the first few moments when I first saw the cover of this book at MPH bookstore, I freezed for that few moments. Why did they call the late Steve Jobs a con man?

If iPhone is a phone, iPad is a pad, and other like iTunes, iMail, iMovie, iCloud, with the word behind the 'i' describing the device or the Apps, then is iCON supposed to be a Con something, con job or con man or something?

Quite the opposite as great man, genius , talented are often used to describe Steve Jobs, usually.

Then I realized that I am supposed to read the whole word as it is, icon and not as iCON.
Hell a lot of difference with Cap on and Cap off.

Interestingly, I couldn't help but think of another old joke which goes like this:

When asked to punctuate this sentence below:

A woman without her man is nothing 

The men wrote: "A woman, without her man, is nothing"

And the women wrote: "A woman, without her, man is nothing"

Hell a lot of difference with where the 2 commas goes.

Just love this!!!

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