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   News to Ed Cryer   
   Re: Apple's charisma   
   15 Sep 23 09:49:07   
   
   From: News@Group.Name   
      
   On 9/14/2023 4:53 PM, Ed Cryer wrote:   
   > 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   
   >   
   >   
      
   IBM had alarming FUD. Apple had shiny FUD.   
      
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