From: ed@somewhere.in.the.uk   
      
   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.   
   And the products show it; they're no longer driven by Steve Jobs' almost   
   manic charisma. God bless him, wherever he is.   
   Updates are badly tested, frequent bug-fixes issued, competitors have   
   overtaken them, Apple Corp is full of bums-on-chairs.   
      
   When Steve Jobs was CEO you bought into sitting in a restaurant with   
   him, discussing Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions,   
   or Zen Buddhism and the difference between intuition and intellect. But   
   not now. You buy a gadget now.   
      
   I want that old mixture back; scientific progress and culture. But I   
   doubt it'll come readily. Such driven personalities with sufficient   
   balls to bring it about, are few and far between.   
   Do we want them to keep on coming? Yes, we do. They push the world   
   forward; give us the notion of progress.   
      
   Ed   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)