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Don’t get me wrong - my wife and I love the Mac and find Apple’s products brilliant. However, in response to my post yesterday about the lack of Flash Brian McBride made a great comment:

It is about time someone runs down the isle past the memorized drones and smashes the Apple/Jobs screen with a hammer. Didn’t someone do that before? wasn’t someone thinking different and encouraging diversity?

That really made me think - the famous Apple ad from 1984 really is so similar to events at Apple’ WWDC.

• Queues of people shuffling in
• Drones sitting in the audience, taking in every word
• The leader is at the front / on screen giving out instructions

Which do those three points really describe?

Don’t get me wrong though - I am extremely keen and interested in new technology but we do need to be careful to examine every new development with ‘positive criticism’. It looks like it is very easy to get carried away at the WWDC.

Thanks Brian for making me look at the issue slightly differently. How spookily close the 1984 Mac advert now is to reality.