[Boss_Jim_Gettys]

"...and the default decisions of Jobs (no floppy, 1 button mouse) are idiotic."

You are welcome to your opinion, but as a PC@work/Mac@home person, I find the floppy to be useless and can function just as well with a one button mouse as a two button mouse. One of Jobs other stupid default decisions was to junk all the legacy crap and go strictly USB (and later USB/firewire). What a maroon!

[discostu]

I use the floppy almost every day at work (swapping images to change test environments revolves around booting from floppy, there are other solutions but they'd be a much bigger pain... and sneaker-net is still a great way to move files when all other options fail you), and I use the right mouse button every day. Defaulting away from them was stupid, it punishes power users. What's especially gauling about those decisions is how cheap the hardware is, floppy drives less than a new music CD adding extra buttons is miniscule (actually given how much the multi-button mouse rules the world going one button probably costs extra). Undoing those decisions would be a negligible cost.

He dropped serial and parallel support?! Didn't know about that. It'll be added to my "what was Steve thinking" list. Yeah serial and parallel suck but they're still out there and serve a purpose (like running printers that haven't died yet).