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To: Kevin Podsiadlik who wrote (170889)	6/15/2014 4:06:14 AM
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I'm not an Apple Bear. I consider myself to be one of the most balanced people here on this forum, and I go back further than anyone on it. Over the years I've criticized many things about Apple but I've also given Apple credit where due. On more than one occasion I predicted things that Apple was likely to do and was roundly criticized before I was vindicated. Two notable examples: I predicted long before it was announced that Apple would port OSX to Intel CISC chips. That was a no brainer I thought at the time but the majority on this thread at the time said no, Apple would stick with IBMs chips which had better floating point power. It seemed to me that heat problems were becoming more and more important. I also predicted that the iPhone would have a touch screen, as I have a background in design and it seemed to me the major drawback of the smart phones at the time was screen real estate. The ONLY logical solution was a touch screen. Most of the people on that thread at that time argued that they wouldn't do it because of fingerprints and interface problems. There were others. When Apple decided to us BSD Unix for OSX I predicted that this would lead to numerous small devices. This was before the iPod. I've been wrong too. Didn't see the iPod coming as a way to tote around entire collections of music. Thought the iPad would be a big phone... on that one I may be partially vindicated this fall. I still disagree that Gil Emilio was a villain. That guy did the unloved job of paring the fat and making the decision to bring back Jobs. I think he knew he would probably pay for doing the right thing. I think he deserves a lot of credit for keeping Apple afloat during the bad years. I also see the critics of the logic behind a polycarbonate 5c as pretty brilliant, and think the critics of that decision have no friggin' idea what they are talking about.

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