guess apple is now for its new customers, and their old loyal customers don't matter to much.
You do realize that the
really old customers (the ones who predate the ADB Keyboard) remember a time when Mac
didn't have "open-Apple" keys, don't you?
The only reason that the Mac ended up with an Apple on the Command key, next to the St. Hannes cross, is that the keyboard was shared with the Apple IIgs, whose system used the "open-Apple" and "closed-Apple" (Option) as menu-based command keys. The original, internal builds, of the first Macintosh operating system used the "open-Apple" as the command key symbol, but Steve Jobs decided that it the heavy use of the company logo in the OS was chintzy, so he asked the developers to come up with an alternative icon, hence the St. Hannes cross.
The "open-Apple" appeared on the Mac solely due to cost-saving reasons, I for one, am not sad to see it go, as it solely served to confuse newbies -- if I had nickel for all the times I've heard "why call it 'Command,' when you could just call it the 'Apple' key?"