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| Authored by: DannyB on Tuesday, August 28 2012 @ 02:31 PM EDT |
I was too idealistic and too ignorant of anything not having to do directly with
code to recognize a lot of things in my youth.
I did recognize some problems with Apple by about 1990. I lost some of my
idealism. Even later when "The Mac Bathroom Reader" came out, I
really lost any delusions I had about Steve Jobs. He could and did treat some
people very badly. Some of that was also touched on in The Pirates of Silicon
Valley.
Eventually, I realized that Apple never was "for the rest of us".
I worked in what, eventually, became an R&D playground. A company making
lots of money on a third party Mac item. I never had bought a Mac myself (at
that time). All of the cool toys I was surrounded with, I never had to pay for.
Yeah, it was cool. But most people would never get to use that cool stuff.
Eventually I was helping relatives with their Performas (a model of Mac) and
realized this.
With Apple's three failed efforts to build a new OS, I realized that they didn't
have any actual magic. Meanwhile by the late 90's there was this new,
interesting thing called Linux.
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