Regulation

Lew Rockwell offers an admission that most Americans are not willing to make:

"I love Apple products, but the death of Steve Jobs cut an emotional tie to the company."

This is why I call Apple customers iZombies, a term I believe has been copied copiously. Apple lovers don't care about its products. They care about Steve Jobs. That's because Apple does not provide innovative products. Apple has, since its inception, has been a great copier of better products, a great marketer of products, but never an innovator. People who aren't tech savvy don't realize this. They buy the hype. Rockwell further pretends he was surprised at Apple's aggressive application of government's bogus IP laws and humanitarian applications.

"Then there was the billion-dollar hit on Samsung, via the State. Now—among many other items—Apple has rejected an app that keeps track of drone murders—through publicly available info. It would be "objectionable," says Apple."

Hello? When did you check your brain at the door and miss the true character of one of government's greatest sycophantic companies? The only reason people lose their minds for Apple products is savvy marketing. Apple exemplifies the conquest of style over substance that flows from the Fed's corruption of American values. The Fed's printing of money teaches us that immediate glorification is more important than producing a product of substance. The Fed corrupts us into believing that products are disposable. Steve Jobs capitalized that and created an army of iZombies like Lew Rockwell. Government created this iZombie phenomenon. All libertarians should reject it. I appreciate Rockwell's admission of his mistake, but if he believes expounded by Rothbard, how did he go so wrong? This isn't one mistake. It's a decade of ongoing mistakes.