Re: Woz is back!

[hattonr@aug.com (Rick Hatton)]

Joseph Lee <nugundam@netcom.com> wrote:

> If you couldn't tell, I'm just disgusted with what Woz has done with his
> engineering ability lately, especially after the "accident".

I would say that teaching school is at least as important as designing
computers.

> Just PR.  I'm more interested if they have any power to help Apple go back
> to the company it was: somebody that cared about building a cheap-powerful
> computer that ordinary people can use and have fun with. 

Bad PR has almost killed Apple (alog with some other things). If you can
get wall Street and the mainstream press of their back, they might have
a chance.

... as far as building cheap computers, Apple has never built cheap
computers, but i ALWAYS had fun with them.

> PCs seemed to have picked
> up on the hacking part with the decent pricing, and now recently, a nice UI.

PCs (Wintel machines and their programs), as usual, are following the
leaders in ease of use and innovation. ... and their new UI still
stinks.  And yes, I do have to use it at work.

Rick