this is belittling to all of us- (Score 1)

This is rediculous. Is Katz trying actually to tell us that windows machines are easier to use than macs? That the Public is stupid? They aren't, in fact, they just have different agendas- which from a business perspective, Jobbs is all to aware of. This kind of technocratic closed-mindedness is exactly what has gotten us all into the financial mess we're in now. The digs about Linux as a consumer os, is, well dissappointing (while I spend my morning trying to help a friend get his PPP connection on his Vaio notebook- telling a guy who's used computers in offices for years, how to set things up from the command line). Jeez. Yeah. Linux desktop is great. Look, actually, Apple has focused on design as a funcitonal elemt of computing- (i.e. the interface with the abstraction that we all take for granted- as we know some relatively arcane languages). Art has had this problem in the last 20 years- art has become too ingrown, art about art, and so here, is an instance of this in computing. Don't get me wrong, I think esoteric persuits are totally worthwhile and extremely productive, but general yahoos on the street don't get to play with plutonium, they just want electricity to run their computers. Mr. Katz, I feel you have been an anti-populist arrogant, jerk- and should apologize to all of us, and the masses you put down- And should re-think your place (and the place of computing) in a world where we all have to eat, #$&*, and *#!@ to propogate our species. rm -rf http://slashdot/katz