The Mac inspired loyalty - was Re: Least PC-Compatible MS-DOS machines?

On 6/11/14 9:43 AM, Sean Caron wrote: That was one of the reasons that I quit. I came into Apple after a solid Unix background and did everything I could to get them to abandon the existing OS because of how primitive it was, but the people that made it work and cared very deeply about building the best system they could given the constraints placed on delivering something that wasn't TOO different gave me a different perspective on the problem. Pretty much all of them were forced out of the company during the purges by NeXT management. The Apple of today is a money machine and really, really, really does not care about you. THAT was the direct result of Steve coming back. They are all that Gates dreamed of in the 90's. This is not the Apple that I was a part of and after being away since 2005 I'm not even afraid of saying that in a public forum any more. Duh... They were APPLE people. Lots of refugees from the insanity of Pink/Taligent who wanted to build something small and elegant. Many of them ended up at Danger/Android which sadly is now heading where Apple was 10 years ago wrt lock-in an user disdain (eyeballs ARE just the product). I've heard of many people bailing for other groups and startups because of the circus that is Google.