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APPLE PUTS USERS ON A NEED-TO-HAVE BASIS Considering how bright and enthusiastic Apple's engineers and product managers are, I know each day brings dozens of new ideas to the conference table. Ultimately, Apple turns thumbs down on 995 out of 1,000 of those ideas. Apple could easily stuff in the box with every copy of OS X four supplemental DVDs containing all the brilliant ideas its engineers have dreamed up and all the open source projects advanced by groups within the company. It could fill the unoccupied 2GB of the OS X client DVD with optional goodies. But it doesn't. The company famous for the pretty computers and the borderline sinful Aqua GUI doesn't actually show off. It gives users only what they absolutely need. Seriously. http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=D479EA:1F5C3D3 -- The only bug free software from MickySoft is still shrink-wrapped in their warehouse..."
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