I certainly hope so, for Apple's sake (or at least .Mac's sake). Apparently there are a lot of pissed of people that say they will not renew. I personally haven't had too many problems though.
Unfortunately, it seems to be the standard now for people to bitch and moan before they know the whole story, or whenever they feel they have been shafted by Apple (remember the whole Quartz Extreme debacle). Then when they find out that things aren't quite as bad as they thought the would be...
From what I've heard, the G3 is alive and well, and will continue to be in the iBooks for a while. I'll have to admit though, that the 12" PB looks ALOT like my new iBook!
I love how fast the back arrow is. It seems that Apple got the caching speed to be bearable. Every other browser I've used on OS X has been pretty slow when hitting the back button. And believe me, I do it alot ;)