Lot of comments observing that Apple is doing much better than Palm these days, but IMO they miss the point. Steve is dead, and I don’t think he got to take an

Lot of comments observing that Apple is doing much better than Palm these days, but IMO they miss the point. Steve is dead, and I don’t think he got to take any of that victory money with him. Palm is dead too, but its investors and employees are doing something else now, and I don’t think they’re generally much worse for the wear. And the time that Palm’s engineers spent there is indelibly better because their boss respected them. On the other hand, I don’t know how many Apple employees got to retire early because of Steve’s management, but I’m not sure their lives, including their time working for Steve, are better overall. Life is a journey, not a destination.