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   Ed Cryer to All   
   Re: Apple's charisma   
   14 Sep 23 21:53:03   
   
   From: ed@somewhere.in.the.uk   
      
   candycanearter07 wrote:   
   > On 9/14/23 13:09, Ed Cryer wrote:   
   >> It's lost it. It's become just a corporate giant, as IBM was when   
   >> Apple launched their "let's be different" campaign way back.   
   >   
   > So you're saying they became what they swore to destroy?   
   >   
      
   Yes. But IBM never had a Steve Jobs.   
   They never had someone trying to bring beauty into tech; someone with a   
   higher vision than science; someone who kept going time and again to   
   Japan in search of the meaning of life; someone looking beyond profit   
   and comfort.   
      
   Ed   
      
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