Tweed was expected to put on successfully that most mysterious of products: the show that people want.
Tweed is a fictional character in a 1969 novel called Siam Miami.
Steve Jobs is a real person. Running Apple, he has successfully created a series of that most mysterious of products: the thing that people want.
The Hot New Thing.
The iMac, the iPod, the IPhone, the IPad.
Three days ago, millions of people were tearing their hair because neither Apple nor AT&T could keep up with the stampede to buy a new iPhone 4 -- before it's actually available.
It says here that Apple had a public relations disaster.
Actually, they had a product people wanted to pay for so badly -- before it was available -- that they crashed computer systems.
You and I should have such disasters.