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I do worry that Jobs' vision for Macs is far removed from what I want in a personal computer.

If you asked someone how to improve how they got from point a to point b in 1890, they'd have told you they wanted a better locomotive or a better horse. If you asked someone in 1990 how to improve how they keep in touch with friends they would have told you they wanted lower long distance rates so they could talk longer. People that have been using computers that use desktop metaphors are today's example.

You are probably quite efficient with the tools you have today. You know how to get your work done. You have the problems and the solutions mapped to your brain.

This isn't a bad thing, because it likely means that you are competent at what you do. It does however mean that seeing potential improvements in what can be done is more difficult because none of us are working with a blank slate.

I think your analogy is not really valid. For the purpose of moving from point A to point B, a car is better than a horse in most any way you can think of. For coding, editing text, illustrating, etc, an iPad with iOS does not hold a candle to a Macbook with OS X (or a PC with Windows or Linux, for that matter). Moving from horses to cars was disruptive, but it brought mostly advantages. Moving from OS X towards iOS does not bring such advantages in the general case.

I don't think they mean to do that. If so, where would be apps developed? iPads? Sure not.

We need Macs as much as they do.

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