Steve Jobs is back in the headlines, which got me thinking about this unique leader's legacy - and what, if anything, the rest of us can learn from how Jobs does his job. Whoever uttered the words, "trust the art, not the artist" must have had Steve Jobs in mind.....

How many corporate executives can make a legitimate claim to have reshaped not just one industry but four: computing (the Mac), music (the iPod), mobile communications (the iPhone), and movies (Pixar). And how many CEOs can make the legitimate claim that they achieved their wealth and power by making tens of millions of people so unbelievably happy that they worship the company and its products with near-religious devotion?....

....In terms of the impact his products have had on the world, Steve Jobs represents the face of business at its best. And yet, in terms of his approach to leadership, Jobs represents the face of business - well, if not at its worst, then certainly not as something worth emulating.

As TechRadar in Britain puts it, "Macs are beautifully designed and engineered, not simply from an aesthetic perspective but, more importantly for many, in usability terms too. The operating system is generally fast, elegant and - thanks to its Unix pedigree - secure and incredibly powerful as well."

[Many] think they're paying too much for products with Apple badges on them.... But despite any real or perceived price differentiation, Macs still score very well on reliability....

Once someone comes up with the money, they tend to keep sending it Apple's way. Strangely, even a search on Microsoft's new search engine Bing tells you to use a Mac if you type in "should I use a Mac or a PC?"...

Apple also polled best in New Zealand for after sales service... 99 per cent of NZ Apple desktop computer owners reported 'satisfaction' with their Macs.... 15.91 per cent of the respondents in NZ owned (or used) Macs.... And all but 1 per cent of them would buy Macs again.

Desktop management specialist Kace is getting serious about Mac management, as Apple's platform makes headway in the business world.

On Tuesday, Kace released the latest version of its Kbox appliances that it said ends discrimination against Macs in businesses dominated by PCs running Microsoft's Windows.

A few MacBook Air users have noticed the recently released update for these computers either will not install on their systems or will not show up in the Software Update panel.

An aggressive back-to-school promotion and a more affordably-priced overhaul to Apple's MacBook Pro notebook line are boosting Apple's personal computer shipments to levels not seen since last October, shortly before the economic climate caught up with the Mac maker in earnest.

InfoWorld says that Apple and other PC makers are overdoing it when they flash their EPEAT Gold to prove they're green, noting that last month Apple registered 10 MacBooks in the EPEAT registry - all Gold rated, giving Apple a total of 11 Gold-rated MacBooks claiming that the MacBook line is "the world's greenest family of notebooks."

InfoWorld decided to go straight to the source: the EPEAT registry, discovering some interesting findings that arguably contradict Apple's claim.

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