This is a great poll. Because it points out that as much as we joke about brother Steve, most of us who have been Mac Faithful for years, really don't TRUST the guy all that much. You know, I understand that corporate america is ruthless, I understand that the public is fickle. And yet there is something to be said for being TRUSTWORTHY in this world. For just simply telling it to us straight, minus spin, and minus all the friggin' BS.

The Apple party line right now is to never even acknowledge that there's anything wrong with OS X. When everyone knows it's really a half-assed operating system. The bottom line is, this isn't about hardware. It's about the software screwing up.

I'm deadly serious about this poll.

It's just the kind of shit Jobs would pull and we all know it.

Makes me want to check the Cupertino obits to see if any Apple people (whistle-blowers) have mysteriously gone missing in the last 5 years.

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Originally posted by the mighty johnq:
I'm deadly serious about this poll.

err, i can't pick an answer from these 3.
The macs Steve used didn't perform better than any other x-equipped machine. I always noticed that Steve demonstrated very simple things and only ONE thing at a time, so the machines were never pushed to the limit. yawn.

Even at Steves quite low clicking speed i could see the OS crawl behind. yawn.

So it really doesn't matter if steve used x86 or PPC OS X Boxes.
X stinks, on x86 or PPC, whatever... yawn_pro.

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Steve demonstrated very simple things and only ONE thing at a time, so the machines were never pushed to the limit. yawn.

I agree wholeheartedly with that.

I could always see right through the demos. Never the way people...er, pros, actually work. Always just enough to demo or entice, and get people to ooh and ah, but always simple, easy-to-handle crap. He spent time on genie-sucks, slow genie-sucks, widgets, all the stuff that's more fluff than function.

The spotlight demo, which looked so fast... if you search for the same thing AGAIN, it's a bit faster. Because these keynotes are probably highly choreographed, and the drives not loaded with too much, they can make spotlight seem a miracle. In the real world, it's anything but.

OK, to be fair, that's partly the fault of my older dual-processor hardware, but on newer hardware, on fairly simple searches, I've choked spotlight many times.

Brother smithz is right, Steve works at a measured pace, doesn't really wail through things, never fires off lots of keyboard commands in succession like a pro. He lets the window manager go at ITS own pace, never really pushes it. Why? It's simple. He can't, or people would see the truth.

I like Steve. I really do. I respect his place in history. He's just not fooling me, like he fools most people.