Well well well, despite the much vaunted ability to withstand the assaults of a multitude of perverse minded geeks and hackers it looks like one of the worlds most vaunted fruits may have finally succumbed to a 21st century scourge. Strange timing as around these parts of the pacific northwest our orchards are only just through with blossoming and as the blossoms give way to leaves and fruit set the quality of the end results are as yet unknown and far away. Not so with a crop from the last few years, even in storage and disbursment the results have been juicy and the purchasers duly sated. However as we dig deeper into that barrel it becomes obvious that the apple has indeed been infected by worm (s). Tough at first …to identify this bad bug… and apply an insecticide of the correct efficacy, as it seems to have come from within the fruit itself.
The worm has a big time name… Steve Jobs, if former CFO Fred Anderson’s revelations are indeed held to be true. Apparently the already super wealthy and super arrogant can’t keep themselves from boring further into a fruit’s juicy accounting to further enrich themselves, possibly at the expense of those who would then make financial judgments from books that would be considered “cooked”. (more…)