This in MacWorld making up news. Delay of Leopard? Last year? And wasn't that delay partly due to the iPhone?

MacWorld can bite my shiny pink butt.

To finish the quote, from Rbt. Browning: "A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for." So Apple is reaching for heaven, will no doubt fail to reach it, but a heck of a ride on the way.

What Apple has in spades that Microsoft doesn't is singular vision. Steve Job's vision, to be exact, flawed as it might be argued. Once Steve gets too sick to steady the tiller, Apple is doomed back to be run by bureaucrats and consensus-seeking, unhip piss-ants, focused on stock P/E ratios instead of products. Anyone remember the John Scully era? It SUCKED.

Apple recovered from those dark days because Steve Jobs asserted HIS vision and standards. Is MobileMe is a disaster because Steve is sick and wasn't on the job enough? Say what you want about his personality. Say what you want about my pointing it out. But you can't argue with the results. Apple simply scares the CRAP out of anyone who want's to compete in the same market spaces. Not because of market capitalization. It's because of PRODUCT. Something America's auto makers are relearning the hard way.

But vision has limits. Just because we are all dewey eyed over our iphones doesn't mean we should use them for work. Just because UNIX is comparatively safe from petty hacking, doesn't mean that MacOS X is up to DoD standards. Cool gear might be great for morale, but coolness doesn't return much investment.

I'm not suggesting that Apple not make a big reach. I'd prefer that Apple reach in the right direction.

Hey, Apple! FIX WEB PAGE CACHING AND COPY/PASTE IN THE IPHONE. Then, MAYBE, I'll consider Macs for DoD.

I think that Steve has been around long enough to inject a few disciples with his unique tonic. How many of us out in the nether-regions of Apple-dome have a clear feel for the Big Fruit Co.?

Apple without Steve will simply need one strong roll-out to stay in the game. Just one. There's a reason we have teachers. They don't live forever, except in the minds of their students.

We all think of PC's, phones, media players. Who's going to be around when we have holograms to replace HD TV (www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k5nt541SE0)? Or the future of robotics? Or skycars (www.moller.com)? (Do you want a PC to integrate the elevation, speed and distance you're travelling from the transport truck below you?!) These could be some areas where Apple is going to leave the competition in the dust again.

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dlstarr7 wrote:
This in MacWorld making up news. Delay of Leopard? Last year? And wasn't that delay partly due to the iPhone?

MacWorld can bite my shiny pink butt.

Dear shiny pink butthead,
That's exactly what the article stated, if you had bothered to read it. But it goes on to say that Apple didn't have the resources to do both, which was true. Hence, Apple's reach exceeded it's grasp.

I can understand why you might not want to read an article, but I cannot understand why you would comment on an article you haven't read.

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dlstarr7 wrote:
MacWorld can bite my shiny pink butt.

Dear shiny pink butthead,
That's exactly what the article stated, if you had bothered to read it. But it goes on to say that Apple didn't have the resources to do both, which was true. Hence, Apple's reach exceeded it's grasp.

I can understand why you might not want to read an article, but I cannot understand why you would comment on an article you haven't read.

This is 'news' without being 'news'. In the news biz, this is called "Filler" and is used when MacWorld has already done their "best of" reviews where they can't tank anything because those products pay the ads.

MacWorld sucks.

And, thanks for the personal attack... You're a winner, iJack.

ipaqrat - I was standing up and cheering in agreement with you but when you got to the coolness part I sat down.

Apple has built a kingdom on 'coolness'. The iphone is better and more reliable than anything else I'd use for work. And yes, os X is safe but not DoD safe. I'd certainly hope DoD doesn't use the exact same thing millions of other people are using. Yikes.

And copy/paste on a phone is your tipping point for what computer you use??? Please.