Re: My horrible Apple mac mini story

[Jude DaShiell]

I think that's very unusual for Apple to ship a non-functional machine 
out.  It could be whoever let that machine off the assembly line without 
verifying it works is going to loose their job.  Steve Jobs is not an 
individual who takes kindly to screw ups that hit his customers like that. 
He is largely the reason everything is the way it is with the Macintosh 
interface appearance and operation today.  Had Bill Gates been half the 
man Steve Jobs is, Windows and the Mac would have been far more equal than 
they are in terms of interface and operations.  I go to technical 
developers forum meetings monthly at work and whenever Apples get 
displayed with Leopard or Tiger running on them there's an aweful lot of 
salivating by an aweful lot of developers around the conference tables to 
get macs to replace windows at our workplaces and this is just from seeing 
the macintosh interfaces in action.