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From: twakeman@hpcea.CE.HP.COM (Teriann Wakeman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Re: Modest proposal
Message-ID: <430057@hpcea.CE.HP.COM>
Date: 9 Nov 88 22:43:27 GMT
References: <20036@apple.Apple.COM>
Organization: HP Corporate Engineering - Palo Alto, CA
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Since it was a posting of mine from way back when that started this item,
I would like to make some clarifications. 

The apparent dicotomy within Apple I was speaking {well typing} of had to do
 with the  seemingly conflicting messages I was getting from the people who
 create Apple's MacIntosh products and the people who are currently running the 
company. 

The people within Apple that I personally know, have corresponded with over
 the net, and have just known by reading their postings all seem to be
 humanists with a dream of helping human kind and empowering people. I have
 gotten a feeling that they consider their real job within Apple to be helping 
and empowering human kind and that developing new computers &
 software is the vehicle for accomplishing their real programme.  

In the past, the image that the Apple company has shown the world was the
 collective visions of its employees. It was this image that attracted many
 of us to Apple in the first place.

The Apple company image that I mainly see now is that of a bigish company
that is selling commodities and trying to maximize their profits. Just a
 well run Sucessful American company, like IBM, DEC, and SUN.

The rational that I hear is that as a company grows and matures it must grow
 up. It must set asside idealistic dreams and focus on providing an image
 that is acceptable to the other bigish businesses with which they do
 business. Also when a company changes leadership, its personality will also
change. I get these reasions all the time in internal HP discussions on what
 has happened to the HP way.

Being somewhat of a dreamer and idealist myself, I was lamenting the
 apparent changes in the Apple company's image and making a plea to
 individuals within Apple not to lose sight of your own personal dreams that
 made your company great in the first place.


>   A question: Most of the yelling at Apple has been in respone to what
>seems to me to be higher management decisions. Does anyone at Apple know
>how many of the truly exalted types read the Net? just curious...


It is my understanding that there is someone from Apple who reads the net
 and prints out things that might interest higher management & distributes
 same to their powers that be. That's why I occasionally get up on a
 soapbox.

TeriAnn