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American cars are as bad as they were 15 years ago, in some ways they are worse for not improving on the same curve as everyone else. Korean and Malaysian cars are now considered to be significantly better than American cars.
Apple though, is a cynical brand now. Like you say yourself TommyB, they are willing to throw ten pieces of money wasting crap at consumers in the hope that one of them deserves the Jobs' tag of being The Product That Changes Everything. ipod was the only revolution and frankly that was a little overblown as it was itunes that was the usp, not the unit. Everything else they do HiFi, the TV box etc, amounts to a computer company trying to capitalise on set of brand values established and galvanised in people's minds by the Sculley era of dedicated professional computers. I really think its important to look beyond the Jobs propaganda about what a bad job Sculley did. Jobs' Apple company would not be where it is today without Sculley steering it through its vital second-stage reach into the global market. Lets not forget why Jobs was booted out in the first place. If he had stayed, the company would have collapsed long ago.
Sure he has a good respect for the design ethic, but that's just one plus point for the man...frankly so did Sculley. Sculley's Newton was a groundbreaking pda and only died becuase Jobs came back and killed it for personal reasons. There's still a big Newton Users community out there becuase the thing is still better than most pdas on the market ten years later.