Someone is eventually going to make one of the systems you describe, regardless of what Apple does. Modern consumer OSes are overly complex. Worse, there's noth

Someone is eventually going to make one of the systems you describe, regardless of what Apple does. Modern consumer OSes are overly complex. Worse, there's nothing "personal" about personal computing. Something like a Smalltalk machine would go a long way, so long as it was built on appropriate metaphors and allowed users to "peel back" layers at a time as they wished to do more (imagine a system that, at the top user layer, acts like a "hypercard machine," but is Smalltalk or something underneath). The proliferation of Internet access has changed the game in this regard. Back in the 80s and early 90s, compatibility issues among exotic PC systems led people to adopt only several types. But now as long as you can communicate and your system has a web browser...