That Mac PDA is going to come through, by hook or by crook—or maybe on a phone, I don’t care and I know you wouldn’t have; it takes guts to keep a silly dream alive, and by god, Apple is going to deliver. Something.

You were so great to read on Mac 360, warm and smart—and silver hair! Exactly what the Mac community needed! I, like a million others, am going to miss you … and that Mac PDA? You know I will always be …

Wishin’ and hopin’,
zo

From, where else, another slashdot comment thread

Re: Now is THE Time To be a Mac Developer
by aluminumcube on 8ish

“Or think of it this way; the kind of people who are drawn to the Mac platform are drawn to it precisely because they don’t want to fuck around with patches, workarounds and general hackery in order to make their computer run. Here is the test: could you imagine telling your mother to run out, buy a beige box, download some boot hack, install it, then install OS X on top of that?”

Re: I AM your mother
by zo on 3ish

“And I own two G4 Powerbooks, 15 and 17″, two partitioned volumes each, running Tiger, max RAM, broadband, wifi/Airport Express, Nokia Bluetooth . . .

Or maybe your grandmother, and what you all need to get is, (who am I talkin’ to: dateless geeks) women are not what you think.”

Who the hell can say that Apple is not THE SHIT?

— Cocoa
— Quartz
— Stylish industrial design.
— Best tech support in the business. They treat you WELL!

Go to the library with my puny little iBook and chicks come talk to me.
OVER a freaking computer!!!

You can run all kinds of free software thru Fink.
You can run Windows thru Virtual PC (Dog slow, but it works).

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