David Smith wrote:
> As I read it, the writer saw things much as I do. I first knew Apple in about 1980, when it fresh and new and small and fun. Steve Wozniak was the bright light then, not Steve Jobs. The romance of that time is dead.
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> The writer may have been an early enthusiast who lived then, watched as the Mac developed from a big beast into a cute little box, and still remembers the jelly-colored monitors. As the mass media became more interested in Apple, Steve Wozniak, the engineer, faded into obscurity , and Steve Jobs, the smiling businessman, became the human face of the company.
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> So long as Steve Jobs was alive, the romance was alive, even though at the end of his life he was merely an employee, who had been fired and then rehired. He was an employee, though, with vision and authority who dominated and inspired and energized and focused the company.
You appear to have done well in your English Composition courses. Well-writte, easy to understand position.
Incredibly lopsided, and wrong in many details.
Posted by: Jim Saklad <jimdoc@icloud.com>
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