Steve Jobs visions were amazing. But how the company implemented it meant that most peoples experience of it was about as good as one could have on the lowest spec MacBook airs, not the recent ones, not the first one that was really underwhelming, but the ones that were good enough but not quite there and as you updated it got slower and more frustrating to use. The top of the line maxed out models of any generation were always very good, if the software developers optimized their software fast enough while they were still the top spec systems. Steve sold us on the potential of computing and every generation got us closer to what we were trying to attain from the previous generation. Thats how it was back in the day. Now the computers last longer and do more before feeling slow. It used to be that they were slow out the box, because they were not maxed out. I wish Apple sold fully maxed out systems on top of the ones they nickle and dime you with. I don't think that was Steves way. But the money men in the company kept him from going there. Next showed that too much too soon was not profitable. The G4 cube showed that charging for design over functionality was not popular. Its a shame the technology Apple is all about is so expensive to produce. I would have liked to see what Steve would have done if money was no object. Because what he left us with really pushed the boundaries of what a "normal" computer is. He's one of those characters you want to get more creations from because they always would have been different, not variations to maximize profits and stock options like it is now.
