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Subject:	Re: From the first LEGO(r) Train Summit: LEGO(r) Trains are alive and well
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.geek
Date:	Mon, 5 Feb 2001 00:36:53 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Christopher Masi writes: > > > > I thought The LEGO Company believed that "Only the Best is Good Enough." > > > Evidently, they changed their minds... > > TLC should hire Steve Jobs! > Steve Jobs? The man who thought that no one would ever need to add > anything to the original Mac so he sealed the case. If he ran LEGO we > might never be able to get into the the box to play with the LEGO. (I > know, not a great analogy, but I am not a huge Jobs fan. He seems like > a great promoter, but I question his leadership.) I'm not really too worried about what he may or may not have said or thought or did back in 1983-84 -- it's the recent stuff that counts, IMHO. Since Jobs came back to Apple, things have greatly improved. Jobs has excellent taste knows how to hire industrial designers with excellent taste. No other computer manufacturer even comes remotely close, IMHO. (And I'm someone who has always hated Macs.) > PS Been computing with Mac's since 1989 and I have never owned anything > else. I grew up on my Apple ][, then moved on to the IBM-PC and Windows for a decade and a half, then on to Linux. If OSX doesn't suck, there's a good chance I'll switch back to Apple. I've never been so blown away in the computer store before. --Todd

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		Re: From the first LEGO(r) Train Summit: LEGO(r) Trains are alive and well
(...) Yeah, because what's really important in my choice of a computer is how it looks, what shape it is, and what colors it comes in. :) And just think, if I want to run some of those highly-tweaked Photoshop filter benchmarks Jobs is so fond of I (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

		Re: From the first LEGO(r) Train Summit: LEGO(r) Trains are alive and well
(...) I seem to remember that you used FreeBSD, too. Is there any particular reason why you switched to GNU/Linux? (If my memory serves me correctly.) Fredrik (24 years ago, 6-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

		Re: From the first LEGO(r) Train Summit: LEGO(r) Trains are alive and well
(...) Steve's rise to prominence was due to the Mac, which was a computer that he did not design. He packaged it, sold it, and there were boom times at Apple. Then Apple began to falter, Steve didn't come up with any new stuff, and he was asked to (...) (24 years ago, 8-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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		Re: From the first LEGO(r) Train Summit: LEGO(r) Trains are alive and well
(...) Steve Jobs? The man who thought that no one would ever need to add anything to the original Mac so he sealed the case. If he ran LEGO we might never be able to get into the the box to play with the LEGO. (I know, not a great analogy, but I am (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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