Dear All MUG Friends —
Yes, "Dear All MUG Friends." (How weird!) I feel a little "strange" here, seeing I don't post all that often. Oh well, for those of you who do Twitter or Facebook, you might have sniffed me out there. But it is true that the Beijing Macintosh User Group has come — and gone.
No long explanations: just the fact that Apple is not the kind of revolutionary Apple that it once used to be. We used to run the group with fervor that would, honestly, make North Korea's rich-in-revolutionary-language propaganda seem like stuff from the average toddler. We were so rich in our Mac ideology — so to speak — that we just simply drove the group into a dead end. There was mass, excess bureaucracy and it just drove itself into a hole.
I hereby resign not only from the Beijing Macintosh User Group, but also from the Apple User Group Regional Liaison for East Asia. I want at least a month or two off everything — especially MUG things — to let me rethink. Don't exclude the likeliness that I'll be back. I don't give up, but I also don't plough down dead corridors.
I'll still be on my 10th, 12th, 14th and 15th Macs, surfing the Web. I'll also be on Twitter ( @DavidFeng ) and Facebook. And I'll probably, if this list allows, still remain on board. It's been a good-and-somewhat-odd 6 years. I still remember fondly those beginnings... and all the friendship, online and offline. "BeiMac" may have belonged to the past but the friendship will stay. :-)
Respectfully,
David Feng