Does Apple Matter?

Is the provocative subject on SiliconValley.Com's Roundtable, the on line version of the San Jose Mercury News. The Roundtable, moderated by Knight-Ridder Newspapers' John Murrell, is a closed, all-week chat among former Apple CEO Gil Amelio (not until Wednesday), former Apple Products Division President Jean-Louis Gassee (now BE, Inc. CEO), former Apple Senior Product Manager Mark Gonzales, former Apple Macintosh Program Manager Jef Raskin, Shawn King of The Mac Show, Monish Bhatia of MacNN and other tech consultants and members of the press. You can't chime in but it's pretty interesting reading. Check it out.