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Dec 22 3:59 PM EST

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To: Scott Crumley who wrote (13110)	5/7/1998 5:11:00 PM
From: shahn	Read Replies (3) of 213177

> I'd like to hear from any college folks [about imac] Well, not exactly a student anymore but know lots and was one most of my life. So, lack of floppy big disaster. Well, this topic was done to death on this thread already so I wont repeat. Suffice it to say that the no-floppy concept is no good for anyone who has more than one computer in their life (I have 5 and I use the floppy in the bay in my laptop in preference to the cdrom for convenience of putting stuff on one or the other to work on. I'm not into graphics: my whole book fits on one old floppy). In the future we'll all use irda ports and ethernet but not this summer. I just want to remind everyone that Jobs is the guy who introduced the world to the ultrastylish NeXT Cube years ago WITHOUT A HARD DISK -- he believed the future was magnetooptic. Well, the next cube lovely as it was died. It was too cool. It was too visionary. Too bold. The consumer wasnt bold. The consumer was NOT interested in taking risks, in being visionary. The consumer was wowed but didnt buy. NeXT hardware died and they became a software only company. The imac makes me think 'Jobs hasnt changed'. Its a matter of personality; creativity and boldness are not what it takes to have the finger on the pulse of the ignorant fearful masses. Its the same reason I lose loads of money on creative investment ideas instead of boring msft stock -- wrong personality for it. But its only one product. The overall lineup looks good and the USB floppy will help offset the critics. I'm heavily into appl. I love jobs. Just hope the rest of his product feature team can stand up to his excesses of vision with a little common sense. They need to have floppy/superfloppy/zip as interna l BOT option. Good luck all, Shahn

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