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Mister Jobs's challenge

[tunepoet]

Excellent assessment Tree Leopard.

It is almost like the record industry. You have the corporate record company executives who’s only goal is to make the big dough, and if they have to create a million cookie cutter pop stars who bring in the big dough, they would typically prefer this to marketing a small number of truly gifted artists who don’t bring in the profits of the cookie cutter pop stars.

Mr. Jobs is clearly in the pop star zone with the new Mac Mini, and those of us who would prefer he improve upon the products that he has already introduced, wind up feeling like the credible artists that are not as well supported as the cookie cutter pop star industry. But this is what happens when the bottom line supersedes the high road; the high road side of industry feels ignored, misunderstood, and unappreciated.

But on the flip side, if the Mac Mini represents just another cookie cutter product, it is a cookie of quality not often found in your typical cookie cutter pop star. If Mr. Jobs is basically just a product hack, he is a hack of unusually good quality and taste. It is an rather rare and unique combination.

I certainly want Apple to serve and appeal to my personal computer interests and needs, but I am not a person who needs a $600 Mac that you can stick in a drawer. Then again, the world could definitely use a Mac that anyone can afford, for the long term success of the Mini Mac can only trickle down to us Mac users with specific computer needs. Whoops! Sounds like Mr. Jobs has a sort of inside out conservative philosophy.

Gambling a conservative long-term investment in Apple longevity. Mr. Jobs is certainly stranger than fiction. The trickle down Mini Mac. Go figure!

Blessings,
Damon