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No Way. His OLPC comments are directly related to Linux bashing and arrogance in the Computer industry. I find them very funny. And rather enlightening. I think he's going too far on the political side. I like the political stuff when he's directly involved. Think of FSJ as the "jester" of the internet. Pulling the beard of all the high and mighty. I don't think he's making fun of the OLPC but rather "Old Saint Nick". FSJ has a way of cutting through the "detritus" of a situation rather succinctly and summing it up in a nice "quotable" quote. His summation of the MS-Yahoo merger being spot on. And I believe that if you find the humour a bit too biting, it may be because you may sympathize or believe the targets of those comments.

wiki server on Leopard server is pretty new to me. I mean I was excited about ical server but wiki server fills a need I have right now. ZDF is pretty big news. If reports of a faster finder are correct thats great. I believe that this article is a bit premature and expecting a few hits. Mission accomplished.

When Apple wants to sell Macs, they will. Right now they don't want to sell a large quantity of macs, I Know it sounds dumb, but all evidence points to them not wanting to sell a large quantity of macs. The price is still relatively high or high end. They have no real plan for enterprise or corporate sales. Sales are made mainly through online or specialty retailers. Everyone can see the barriers to owning a Mac. Apples smart they see they too, They just choose to ignore them.

The fact is that there is not a short supply of engineers that can make the Mac great. There are plenty of them. The best and the brightest are going to want to work at Apple. What engineer wants to go work on the Dell DJ Ditty? The core of Apple isn't a product, it's an idea. Make technology easy to use. That's why they've been able to survive and will always survive. I knew it instinctively in 1987 when I started working on the Plus and it's been reinforced ever since. Even bad stewardship in the early 90's couldn't dilute that promise. Apple does the hard thinking on making things easier to use. Hence the one button mouse. You reap the benefits.

Too early for the hand ringing. The ipod was too expensive when it first came out as well. Remember all the pundits then. Now there's a $89 shuffle. i expect the same evolution with the iPhone as well. This thing is awesome. Just awesome. And with OSX as it's base. Who knows where the developer community will take this thing.

I agree with John on the splitting up of Microsoft. But into Three divisions. Operating systems, Office and games companies. It would really unlock the stocks potential

Speed. It's pretty snappy now but I'd love it to be fast. Get Quartz extreme working very well. OpenGL performance improved greatly. Java speed improved. Built-in VOIP. It makes every Mac a business Mac. More interactivity in the dock icons. I like the way Mail shows you how much mail you have. Other applications should have that. A totally revamped iTunes. It's gotten junked up with the music store and the video store, podcasts all in there. Just strip it down and do music again. Make programs for those other features. Simplify everything again. Consistent user interface across applications. Brushed metal gone. The new grey plastice fixed. It looks cheap right now. PVR. Software update available to every third party. That would be great. Cheaper .mac. Keep the software tools coming. Keep them free. Make them great. That will pay off in the future as more people come to the mac platform. Some very nice software has shown up lately on the Mac.

Apple is Apple. Always the gifted teenager. Brilliant in class. Works poorly with others. Name a business relationship that they have had in the last 5 years that has lasted. Hopefully this move to Intel will impart a little humility in them, corporately, but I doubt it. How are they going to act when they have 5%, 10% of the market?