[JohnFen]

I still feel butthurt and betrayed by Apple because of the Mac.

But in fairness to Apple, the Mac marked a point where they overtly wanted to ditch their (then) current customer demographic and switch to an entirely different customer demographic. Which they successfully pulled off. And they do seem to be giving those people what they want, they just don't want the likes of us.

But, back to the topic, I consider Apple to be an example of a company going public and having an excellent product ruined as a result.