[Flick Lives]

This is exactly the problem with the Apple haters. They are jealous of a successful company.

It is a little weird. Are they jealous of success? Do they wish for failure in others?

The Apple turn-around story of the late 90's is the very stuff of free enterprise capitalism and the power of the individual.

Here is a company that was on the brink of bankruptcy. The founder of the company returns, and with individual vision, against the prevailing group consensus of the day, he turns the company around, saves it from bankruptcy, and it becomes wildly successful. This is a textbook example of the individual making a difference; of vision, of creating a product that is not the usual committee-designed bland beige dreck produced by so many companies.

I love the fact that Steve Jobs returned to save his own company and prove the majority wrong. Consensus is what gives us the US Post Office or Healthcare.gov. Individualism gives us the likes of Apple.

[amigatec]

And what most people fail to understand is Apple isn't trying to compete with anyone. Microsoft, Samsung, and others are worried about what the other guys are doing, and Apple just worries about Apple.

When you build a better, people will buy it.