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Thank you Steve for a great company to work for, great products, and great stock options that I'm still holding after 20 years and now retired at 53 debt free. That's my American dream. RIP and keep innovating Apple Inc....
The last time I saw Steve was only about a month or two before he passed. I was walking around on a break in IL 6 and saw him in the distance down the long hall, I looked down and thought of saying something to him as I was getting closer and closer, but felt intimidated to say anything. I was normal SW tester, I didn't work anywhere near Steve, what was I gonna say anyways? But, I sure must have looked uncomfortable and affected by him approaching me, and as I passed him, I looked up to acknowledge him and at least give him a nod, and he looked at me with this perfect smile and just walked by. He could tell I was uncomfortable probably by my body language alone, but he just looked and gave me this reassuring, almost knowing smile. He looked so happy and peaceful at that moment. Every other time had I passed him around campus he was busy talking with someone, or taking a coffee break in the atrium with coworkers, or walking speedily across the courtyard with a prototype in a black bag or box, and always very focused and serious and usually not available in any way, but that time he was just walking down the hall the same as I was probably just airing out his head on a break. I will have that memory and souvenir in my mind for my whole life and more than any work related stuff I ever did there, it stands out above all other things.

Face ID works fine for me unless I lose a lot of weight ...and then I just recalibrate it. I prefer it as someone who has owned pretty much every type of cellphone including a webOS phone.

I like SRK, When I used to contract for Apple as a SW tester I used to travel to Nepal and India in between contracts and I lucked out to see Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge when it came out in 1995 while in Udaipur. Ever since then I've watched Bollywood movies and have enjoyed his acting. I think he will be a fine person for Apple, they couldn't have chose a more beloved Indian actor and public figure. Bravo Apple!

My Macbook Pro early 2011, and my iMac 2010 haven't been working well at all using several iterations of the OS X's. I had to drop back to OS Lion 10.7.5 in order to keep on using them, the computers are fine and powerful enough for me, but the OS's left those machines in the dust years ago. Apple OS's were not like that many years ago. Obsolescence sure happens faster these days.

Apple should reopen the ability to downgrade back to iOS 10.

No one listens to that dork, especially not Tim Cook.

Plain and Simple the iPhone just lasts longer. In the time I've owned my 6 Plus my son has retired two new android phones, and my wife has just retired hers. These android phones just died or got screen problems that made it useless. I'll stick with Apple. My Macbook is another story, it's only a 2011 and it's obsoleted from using the latest OS's. The mac line used to last forever and the OS's didn't slow 3 or 4 year old models to a crawl. My iMac also crashes all the time but it is a 2010 model, but that's still a lot less duration of new OS compatibility. Old Macs like when they were beige and even after the iMac would last a lot longer and would be upgradeable each year for at least 6 or 7 years or more.