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Message: HTML is not enabled. UBB Code™ is enabled.	[QUOTE]Originally posted by dragonman97: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Callipygous: [qb] Lector, si monumentum requiris, circumspice Pogue nails it. http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/06/steve-jobs-imitated-never-duplicated/ [/qb][/QUOTE]Nice - cheers for the link. Right now, so very much has been written that one cannot find the time to read /all/ of it. That, OTOH, was a great read. I think a key thing he hit on is Steve's track record. There's little doubt individual people and/or groups (startups or otherwise) will come up with a 'great product.' But great product after great product - that's a damn hard feat to accomplish. Even more difficult is great /new/ _consumer_ product after... For instance, I'm sure there are cynics/haters out there for it, but I've used some crappy network gear...and I've used Cisco gear. I very much like most Cisco switches and routers I've worked on. Others like me do as well, and this is probably why they're a huge company - but their products are almost never 'game changers' like Apple's products. (And rarely consumer-facing.) I also adore Aruba networking equipment - and they continue to amaze me with their brilliant software releases...but no one outside my industry would know who they are - they'd ask if I meant the island. As such, while there are some great products out there that /aren't/ from Apple, very few continue to 'change the world,' like the stuff Steve has released. That's pretty damned impressive, and likely to be a very hard act to follow. [/QB][/QUOTE]