Date: 11/12/2005 2:45:56 PM Author: GoaSkin I don't care for Apple as a company... ...Apple is no different from any other company.quote> We used to say about Apple, Love the products, hate the company. But you know, Apple is not 'no different from any other company'. It's unique; it's much more than a mere company; it's a cult; it's almost a religion for some. Just read the opening of Time's recent article on Steve Jobs, whom it describes as a Perpetual Innovation Machine, to get a flavor... http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,1047510,00.html When Steve Jobs evaluates something, it's either insanely great or an expletive that's unpublishable here. This relentless perfectionism typifies how Steve views everything he has created in 28 years at Apple Computer and nearly 20 at Pixar Animation Studios. It also explains why he has been successful again and again in creating breakthrough products. Steve, 50, helped bring digital technology to the masses and revolutionized several industries. He didn't invent the personal computer. But he was the first to look at a utilitarian tool for techies and reincarnate it as something that became ubiquitous...quote> Read on and learn why Apple is a company that succeeds by breaking all the rules, and why it produces the BMW of personal computers. PC users may like their PCs, but Mac users love their Macs. That's a big difference. Windows may have a 90% share of the market, but as Theodore Sturgeon said when asked why 90% of science fiction is crap, 90% of everything is crap.' Tom Clancey once put it this way, Never ask a man what kind of computer he has. If it's a Mac he'll proudly tell you without being asked, and if it's not, why embarrass him? Tom Clancey, you'll gather, is a devotee of the Cult of Macintosh. And BTW, in case you forgot, Sim City was originally developed on, and available only for, the Mac.
