How Apple's story is like 'Breaking Bad'

If you're going to make a tortured analogy, it would help if you actually understood the things you're comparing. The writer clearly doesn't understand Breaking Bad.

From all the different ways I have seen 'journalists' trying to create traffic by making up stories around the legend of Apple, I wish I could say that this is the worst and most shameful.

I have no idea how Apple's story or Breaking Bad's story will end, but I do not see things ending well for the author of this fine piece...

The most interesting part of this article was the fact that the next 8 episodes (after the one today) will air summer 2013 :-(.

I find this offensive. Apple does a lot of shit I disagree with, but to compare Steve Jobs and Walter White is a bit much.

The role of cancer in Breaking Bad is like this: Walter White is "cured" but then he becomes the cancer. Many tumors kill the host by releasing toxins into the body that disrupt organ function or cause organ failure. Walter White became a tumor that releases poison (methamphetamine) into society. Like a cancer cell, he no longer serves a purpose. He just wants to "grow", in a very negative sense of the word. He's now doing increasingly more damage as long as he can... until (if) he ends up dead or in jail.

I don't think comparing Steve Jobs to a cancer is fair.

That said, Breaking Bad certainly has themes of corporate competition (internal and external) and it uses those extremely well. Killing Gale was classic corporate politics: get rid of your replacement rather than risk him being good enough to make you disposable. I doubt the correspondence is intentional, but Mad Men and Breaking Bad are deeply related shows: both "men at work" dramas set in workplaces dominated by masculine swagger (although the former has great female characters) and they're the erotic and thantoptic bookends of the American Era. Mad Men is set in the optimistic time about 15 years after it starts on the east coast (sunrise) and Breaking Bad occurs at its end out in the southwestern desert (sunset).

"Apple" and "Breaking Bad" in the same article. Awesome.

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