timmillea

The most lamented loss to many was the fantastically powerful and versatile ClarisWorks/AppleWorks integrated suite. Nothing has ever come along even to match it. Worse was the cancellation of the decades-ahead its time, OpenDoc project, which took the interoperability of the ClarisWorks suite to its logical limit - instead of apps with docs, docs were the first class citizen and all apps provided containers within them all at OS level. It was genius. Steve Jobs cancelled it, along with the Newton, because they were not his ideas. 

If anyone could produce an updated version of ClarisWorks, I would buy it instantly. 

I don't think Steve Jobs ever had a 'vision'. He started young and arrogant, believing in his superiority and ruthlessly exploiting the connections he had to make money. He got a little wiser with age and learned how to present himself better but he never lost his self-superiority or arrogance. Had he been an academic and shared his abilities at concept-level, his ideas would have been refined faster, improved and shared with the World for free, instead of just making money. He was a troubled individual made more extreme by his financial success. At least he used apple to bring us some great 'products' instead. 

Cook is the ultimate logistics man, shortly to retire, who brought us the monstrosity of the Mac Studio. He also ejected Steve Job's equal, Johny Ive. The trajectory for Apple currently looks irrecoverable. Burn-up. 

I expect the early 3nM chips will be going to the new Mac Pro.

This appears only like compliance with laws in various territories. Why would anyone do their own repair at the same price as an Apple-authorised one? Silly laws, silly compliance.