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I only had a permissions problem on one computer that had nothing to do with MobileMe but had the side-effect of disabling sync. It turned out to be my fault and it was easy to fix. The downtime wasn't a problem for me, because I had anticipated that there would be a surge the first few days after the transition.

I have the same problem with sleep on my MacBook Pro. It was broken in 10.5, they fixed it in 10.5.1, and it's broken again in 10.5.2. Before anyone suggests going back to 10.5.1, let me say that 10.5.2 fixes too much other stuff. When I am working in closed-lid mode and disconnect the keyboard and power supply, I get an ominous gray screen crash instead of sleep. On my iMac, I notice that right before a system sound, the system appears to be suspended. I say "appears" because the only thing I can see is that my typing goes into a buffer instead of onto the screen. After the system sound is finished, the typing appears. It seems to me that Leopard ought to be able to play system sounds in the background. It's not the speed of my computer; it's an aluminum 24" Core 2 Extreme.

I'd say, You have a keen instinct for not making products I think I need, but don't, and for inventing products I need, but would never think of. So whatever you are doing, keep doing it.

One more thing, as Steve Jobs would say. We are very proud of the fact that Leopard is UNIX 03 certified. But UNIX has been around for 38 years! When UNIX was first conceived, offices had dictaphones and used carbon sets. So why is there no clamor for replacing UNIX? Because it doesn't need to be replaced, that's why.

If a company experiences a sudden increase in their products, it is going to cause quality and customer-service problems. The reason is that hiring and training sales and support staff and ramping up production are relatively slow processes, so the only way to keep up with demand is to hurry. You can't hurry without making mistakes. The company is faced with the dilemma that if they hurry hiring, production, and training, there will be quality problems, but if they lag too far behind demand, they will miss their chance at a larger market share. The question is not whether quality and customer service will suffer as Apple experiences rapid growth, because Apple is subject to the same laws of physics as any other company. The question is whether it will be temporary or permanent. Most companies find out that with higher sales volumes, they can get away with less, and the decrease in quality and customer satisfaction becomes permanent. Apple has a track record of being customer-oriented rather than sales-oriented, so I think that any problems will be temporary. I think we've already seen this with the Intel-based products.

Reason 4 (Price) When I decided to buy a Mac, it was because I was intrigued by the Mac mini. However, after I priced it out, I determined that in my case, at the time, the 17-inch iMac was not only cheaper, it was the most computer per dollar of all of Apple's models. There's a lot to be said for proper price comparisons. Reason 8 (Mac Users) For twenty years, whenever someone asked me if I would ever get a Mac, I said, "No, I worship a jealous God." I only bought a Mac because I needed a backup machine and Linux didn't work out. A year later, I discovered to my great surprise that the Mac had become my main computer. When I was a kid, we had to sell cookies for the YMCA. We had oversaturated the neighborhood so badly that when I rang on one doorbell, the man who answered just shouted "I don't need any YMCA cookies" and slammed the door. People are so badly battered by over-zealous Mac users that they react like that man. If you oversell your product and insult your potential converts, you become just one more of those door-to-door religion salesmen that everyone dreads. No one hears your message; they just want you to go away. Everything the Mac zealots say is true, but it comes across to Windows users as utopian and delusional. Let's soft-sell people into using Macs rather than beating them over the head with them.

MacKen says, "As long as Steve Jobs is around, Apple won't be one of the crowd." That's true. But what happens when Steve Jobs isn't around? Are Apple employees going to go around with plastic WWJD bracelets? ("What Would Jobs Do?") Jobs is too essential to Apple. Jobs is a successful, charismatic character who will always be in charge and will always have a shower of accolades and honors as long as he is at 1 Infinite Loop and breathing. His next task is to groom the organization so that it can continue its present course indefinitely, so that his legacy will survive him.