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I'll tell you what's really depressing:
Know why the Apple II was so incredibly popular? Because it was an open system when nothing else (at least, nothing else that you didn't build from a kit) was. It had slots. You could buy third-party boards to put in those slots. If you wanted to use it in your business or in your laboratory or in your school, there was hardware for that. And, back when companies like Texas Instruments were threatening lawsuits against anyone who sold software that would run on their computers, the Apple II was an open software platform, too. You could buy just about any software you could imagine for it, or write your own (BASIC was included) or slowly type in code from a magazine, if you liked that sort of thing. It was the ultimate in wide-open freedom. It gave you the power to do anything you could dream of.
In short, it was the exact opposite of everything Apple, and especially the Mac and iPad, are all about today. It was a computer for the people ... one that gave you the freedom to do anything you wanted to do ... rather than giving you the "freedom" to do anything Apple wants you to do, which is not the same thing at all.
In my opinion, the wrong Steve won.
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