<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/8c270907-ba31-4e3e-b462-890d66c97662/480F1024-80ED-49B4-8535-64D508FFB269/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/30/return-to-sender/" href="http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/30/return-to-sender/" style="font-size: 11px;">pogue.blogs.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/30/return-to-sender/"><H2 class="entry-title">Return to Sender</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/30/return-to-sender/"><P>With predictable frequency, readers send me their ideas for new products, their gripes about existing products, their “why doesn’t someone make…?” brainstorms. I’m not sure what I’m supposed to do with them, but I try to be as supportive as I can. (The really great ones, I feature in this blog.) </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/30/return-to-sender/"><P>Today, for example, someone sent me a copy of a proposal that he had had a mutual friend deliver to Apple CEO Steve Jobs—a proposal for a new Apple product. “I expect no money for this,” he thoughtfully wrote in his cover letter to Mr. Jobs.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/30/return-to-sender/"><P>The proposal was that Apple should create a computer for seniors, which my correspondent feels is an underserved market.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/30/return-to-sender/"><P>That may be true. Maybe this idea is a goldmine waiting to be unearthed. But it seems unrealistic for my reader to feel crushed that Mr. Jobs didn’t embrace his idea.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/30/return-to-sender/"><P>First, because heaven knows how many similar “You know what you should do?” messages Apple (and Palm, and TiVo, and Microsoft, and Google…) must get a week.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/480F1024-80ED-49B4-8535-64D508FFB269/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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