I know a few Apple haters. You probably do too. They dislike that Apple is “closed,” “elitist,” “think they know best,” or otherwise. I can appreciate those opinions and why they exist. I can also understand the thought that Steve’s recent departure (maybe forever?) is the beginning of the end for Apple. I understand and appreciate all of these ideas, I do. But I always come back to one conclusion, however subjective it may sound:
As an Apple customer, I’ve been the beneficiary of the best computer products ever made in their time—innovative, easy, elegant. Apple detractors, on the contrary and on their ideological principles, have put up with all manner of utter crap for the decade or so Jobs was back at the helm.