via IFO Apple Store: Gary Allen is stepping down from daily blogging and leaves us with this
My final advice is: don’t overthink Apple. Instead, remember Steve Jobs and his boundless enthusiasm and joy—especially on stage—for what the products can accomplish and make possible. It’s fine to speculate on sales numbers and stock price. But it’s more pertinent to wonder how FaceTime or other Apple product feature can bring distant people together, to help diverse cultures understand one another to make a better world. I know. I’ve been there, talking to strangers at 1 a.m. in front of a new Apple store about human rights, answering questions from eager Apple enthusiasts about Steve and Tim, sharing my views on how technology might bring improvements to this earth’s vast human community.
I can honestly say that I’ve been a subscriber of this blog since around 2002. Gary doesn’t post regularly but his posts and retail updates were always well written, well researched and factual. I really enjoyed his style and I’m pretty we met at some point.
His contribution to the Apple Community will be missed. No one else covered retail like him. I’ll remain a subscriber of his site for those periodic updates that may come at some point.