Ode to the Apple II
I’m probably just a little young to remember the heyday of the Apple II. I remember being somewhere between 8 or 10 and my mum bringing one home (she was a teacher and it was a loan over the holidays). Perhaps it was an Apple IIe. Anyway, it introduced me to computers, games, programming (to a degree) and, in combination with Lego is probably responsible for my geekiness even today.
Mr Jalopy (raconteur, renaissance man, hot-rodder, hacker), remembers the II and has a plea for Steve:
Build open systems. Build new business models. Apple owns the box, they should call the shots. Don’t pander to the media companies. Don’t adopt standards that handcuff us forever. Build for rocket scientists and teenagers.
Apple are still interesting, but their hints of expansion into a media-zaibatsu worries some people:
Now I ask, “Do you want to sell DRM’d Desperate Housewives episodes or do you want to change the world?”
