Why did they change this forum area

Question

From what I see here and from what I read in the rumors columns, Apple is making wholesale changes in everything.  The old forum was very easy for me to use and I could find what I needed and ask questions and get answers.  Things here are far less intuitive.
Is there any way we can get them to go back to the old ways?  I really know the answer before I ask it.  From what I've seen Steve Jobs has a vision of what things should be.  Sometimes he is right and at other times he is not.  But right or wrong, he is the autocrat and the customers are made to like it.  Or what?  I really cannot imagine going back to the Windows world and I don't find the Linux world with a many ready made profession applications as I find in Apple or even Windows.  Gimp is a great product.  But it still doesn't touch Photoshop (even Elements) or Aperture or Lightroom.  I don't see those apps on Linux. 
I know this sounds like heresy, but if you had heard about some of the things I've heard about Lion, many of you would (will) shudder.  It is like they are taking my 24" iMac with 8 GB of RAM and TBs of hard drive and making it into a large model iPad.  I love the iPad.  But it doesn't do the jobs I need to do nor for the jobs it does, does it do as well.  Someday, I see the world of iPad and the full size Mac merging.  But they aren't there yet, but they are treating it as if they had.  We ARE NOT in a POST PC (a Mac is also a Personal Computer just not a Windoz computer) world.  We are moving there. 

Answer 1

I've compared the iPad 2 to the Kindle and the Nook.  I have two daughters and each have one of them.  They are very impressive and the eInk is quite impressive.  If I needed to read in natural light more, I would be dependant on eInk.  But that is not the case.  I use a lot of apps, and btw, none of the apps I've installed are games - I don't have the time or energy for gaming.  I work a very complicated schedule and I found an iPhone / iPad add that keeps track of it very well so I can tell what days I work two months from now when setting up the next doctor's appointment.  My Banks and my credit card companies have very nice applications for managing these as well as Pay Pal.  Applications that let me play my favorite radio stations on my iPad or iPhone.  Accordance bible program which is by far the best Bible study program and research tool out there works very well on the iPad and with some crowding on the iPhone.  the reduced capability iWorks (Numbers and Pages) that let me do certain work on my iPad.  Has been very valuable.  Applications which help me find the next bus in a city and find its expected arrival time at a particular stop.  These are only a quick list of the things I like the most that I have here.  Android is a challenge but for now, Android suffers from versions.  Many people cannot load the latest version of Android because of details of the hardware platform they have.  I remember those days with Windows on non-IBM hardware very painfully.  Linus also suffers that problem too because some of the big PC makers (HP in particular) sell hardware that took so many shortcuts that drivers for Linux are not available.  Android is something to watch and some people are quite happy with it.  The disadvantage it has is that without the control Apple exerts on what can be loaded on non-jail broken iOS devices, malware can creep in even more easily.  But Android itself isn't currently offering EInk as far as I know.
I expect the EInk devices will move in time into the tablet market.  It is an obvious move.  But the investment to do that and the low success rate from a number of courageous companies is daunting.  The only explanation I have for Apple's dominance is that they were the fastest to the market and their products do seem to work as advertised with a few well advertised missteps.