<p>I have been a Mac "bigot" since last century, even swore Apple would come back, wrote about it in 1996 and no one believed me... SHOULD have hung on to that $7 or stock....</p> <p>I met Steve Jobs on the same day(s) at an event in SFO that I met Colin Powell (back when he was a great man, not a great liar at the UN). The place was full of heavyweights from Oracle, AT&T, and many other giants... </p> <p>Having been in the media since I was in my 20s, I have long known how "human" and ordinary, if not UNDER-ordinary most of these celebrities are in real life... but meeting these two people you could feel the aura of greatness.</p> <p>Steve Jobs' vision with a hangover wearing greased shades on a moonless night is better than what Bill Gates "vision" (wishin') with searchlights focused by lasers and overlayed with infra-red cameras can be at noon. Having crashed and come back, I think Jobs has become a slightly better manager than just a pain-in-the-butt visionary that he was/is.</p> <p>There is not a day that does not go by that I do not gain some benefit from technologies he brought to us that makes my life easier/better or provides me tools to be more creative than I have a right to call myself. ;-)</p> <p>Imran<br /> <a href="http://imran.com"><a href="http://imran.com">http://imran.com</a></a> </p>

Posted by: Imran Anwar 19 Jun 2006

<p>"when was the last time we saw a hyped up Steve Jobs up on stage presenting something awe inspiring"</p> <p>You have a point there... though the MacBooks are, in my opinion, the best looking, maturely designed laptops on the market.</p> <p>The corollary would have to be, if you're holding your breath, when are we going to see PCs with a similar commitment to aesthetics? To be fair Sony makes a good effort.</p> <p>Then there is Telly Tubby inspired Windows with it's My Little Pony language. Nice to see that's on it's way out... but Flip 3D in Vista turns the windows to the generic side - so they all look the same and obscures the small ones... Aero makes title bars translucent so buttons become confused by some backgrounds... and what about window design. The trademark feature: each have 5 or 6 title bar rows and repetition of features abounds... just count the number of times 'library', 'artist', or artist name are repeated in WMP, for example.</p> <p>It is about time Microsoft and the PC manufacturers took some design lessons for Apple, because the Cupertino fruit machines put them to shame.</p>

Posted by: Steve Jobs 09 Jun 2006

<p>perhaps mr jobs is becoming eccentric in his old age?? seems he is spending far too much time on pet projects of the architectural nature than the computer hardware/software realm. in saying that, when was the last time we saw a hyped up steve jobs up on stage presenting something awe inspiring in terms of product release?? not lately fans.</p> <p>he didn't look much enthusiastic in the ipod speakers.... the intel macs are repackaged.... ummmm.... what else.... the last major iPod update was over 8 months ago..... BUT apparently the stuff in the labs is the best he has ever seen.... so i guess we are suppose to hold out breath.</p>

Posted by: steve Davies 09 Jun 2006