I am completely happy that he passed on the Amiga because today we would be using a computer where the only thing you had to know about computing is where the on switch would be. He had you locked out of everything else.
Well, on the good old Amiga days, lots of people only knew out to put a disk in the drive and power on the Amiga. Actually that's the only thing you needed to know. It's only later that you had to do more, since lots of things got complicated, hacked,...
And btw, the fact Macs hide most of the stuff doesn't mean you doesn't have access to the stuff if you want to... It's power and simplicity...
