[Ti] "end hanging disconnect" (was: disconnecting ...

[Eric Forat]

On Jun 1, 2004, at 9:29 PM, PowerBook G4 Titanium List wrote:

This one really caught my eye. It would be interesting for a book 
project to
> chart the course that Apple has taken from the idealistic early 80's 
> to the
> more "bottom line" obsessed company it has become. I remember the 
> early days
> that were characterized by philosophical and deeply thought out 
> statements
> from the pioneers (the likes of Boich, Hertzfield, Burrell Smith, 
> Atkinson,
> Capps and Jobs himself). Then the cracks started appearing (I remember
> reading a book by Lu - once the Mac Evangelist called "The Macintosh 
> Way"
> that revealed the more cut-throat side that had been kept hidden from 
> the
> public. And of course we have followed the erratic changes in 
> direction and
> high level personnel since. So yeah, how close is the Mac hardware and
> System Software to the original goals of the early '80's?


Well, it seems Apple  followed a well known and well-trod path, from 
"Company" to
"Corporation"; and causation as everybody should know is implacable.


best,

eric.