[HansTWN]

I think it is the world against the Apple rep here. He is just singing the company mantra (we are different, we offer more value) but he hasn't convinced anybody. We know that Stonetools keeps repeating Apple's vision statements over and over --- but apparently even your own users don't see it, so Apple has failed in this regard.

Apple can now continue to ignore its users (or they may well say -- those few readers, who cares about them?). That is exactly the reason I don't buy Apple products anymore. It is their way or or the highway --- even for their customers. You don't like a function, part of the interface, whatever? Well, that is too bad. You can't change it. And this ever increasing stranglehold to prevent us from freely using our devices and to suck us dry.

But now you have hit those using the ipad for reading, even avid Apple fans, right where it hurts. And your attitude here is a replay of Steve's first reaction to antennagate: "Don't hold it this way".