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It's a new era, folks. [Cue Smuckers or Country Time Lemonade ad voice] Time was, you could be a fetish model/erotica editor/sex educator/tech geek and if you reported getting dissed by a major tech industry mogul at his own expo, folks would write you off as a crank. But with video phones and sites like qik.com, the new immediacy (tm) gives such a report new credibility.

Brian Caulfield at Forbes recalls Blue's story as he exposes some of the longstanding and newly emerging negatives inside the Apple. But are those same negatives essential parts of the Jobs genius? Caufield cuts it open and avoids the love and hate that supporters and detractors usually derail themselves with. With the world markets freaking out today, it's worth considering whether discounted Apple stock is worth looking at.