Re: The Children of Woz (Re: Apple, Jobs, and the irony of it)

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

Richard Kilpatrick <richard@dmc12.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> writes
>
>>You see, there are two groups of Apple followers.
>>The children of Woz and the children of Jobs.  You
>>appear to be a child of Jobs.
>
>I am a true Apple person, in that I'm more than prepared to accept that 
>Woz's creativity and Jobs' marketing is what made Apple great. Not one 
>or the other.

I am a true Apple II person in that I was dedicated
the platform.  I believed and still truly believe that
the Apple II and Apple IIGS were some of the best
personal computers ever built and the Apple IIGS
in particular had an evolutionary potential that
was never tapped.

However, I do not blindly follow the company that
made the product.  I was an Apple II user.  Jobs
"vision" at Apple resulted in a great many of us
defecting to the PC.

It is a free market.  When consumers are not
happy with a company, they switch.

So yes, I am a fan of Woz because I am a fan
of his creation.  Jobs destroyed that creation so
I am no fan of HIS Apple.

As I have said, the modern PC with an nVidia
nForce2 chipset and a high end Athlon CPU
has more Apple II soul than any Macintosh.

Given that, I do agree that the G5 Mac is a
move in the right direction but not enough to
bring me back to Apple.