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Apple was NeXT but not anymore. All the NeXT people were pushed out. Turns out, most of the work was being done by the NeXT people. Probably when Scott Forstall gets stabbed in the back by Tim Cook, that was the end of the NeXT era of Apple.

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Craig Federighi is still there, right? He had a lot to do with bringing together NeXT frameworks and enterprise database interfaces. If Tim Cook's successor is truly engineering oriented then we might see them work together to get the old buggy going forward again.

According to his Wikipedia, Craig Federighi left Apple in 1999 for Ariba, and then returned to Apple in 2009, after Snow Leopard.

We all know that Snow Leopard is considered by many to be the peak of OS X, and Craig returned afterwards. Coincidence?

It's batshit that people still talk like apple is lost technically when apple silicon has absolutely crushed, airpods are the default headphone of the world, and macbooks are the best overall package available at all price points. And why? because they arent interested in VR and the glass aesthetic is kind of janky? Absolutely minor issues.

The software isn't so good these days, even while the hardware has been the best in the world. Now that the guy responsible for the hardware will be CEO, maybe quality will come back to software too.

Apple fans live in a bubble, crushed what?

Apple doesn't do servers, they decided to get out of that market.

Apple decided it doesn't care about workstation market any longer.

The desktop market worldwide is about 10%.

The mobile devices market worldwide is about 30%.

Sure it crushed, in the few countries where Apple rules like North America.

Apple detractors also live in a bubble. Apple was always after profit share not market share. They have 20% market share for mobile devices globally, which is still the highest among all the brands. But their profit share is an estimated 80%. How’s that not crushing it? Btw they don’t have to be in every product market under the sun. It’s a bizarre observation. Getting out of the businesses where they don’t have margins perfectly makes sense.

20% of the market doesn't last forever, eventually those people are gone from planet Earth.

Ferrari isn't crushing it, regardless how you sell their profits over the car industry.

Apple wants to be the Ferrari from computers, which cuts their growth opportunities.

Last time someone cared to measure they owned 98% of the $1,000+ PC market. If that number ever slips you should offer your services to them.

If you dont think apple silicon and rosetta rollout was a massively successful and high difficulty technical accomplishment I dont really know what to tell you. Just look at the windows ecosystems attempts to roll out arm devices. I can still use my 900 dollar m1 macbook air for almost anything and I have a desktop computer with 128gigs of memory and a 5090. And the battery lasts for days to the point I barely think of charging it. And my m5pro work laptop is just basically a perfect device. I think I use enough platforms to be a fair judge. I also detect the sloppiness in some of the software, im just saying in comparison its a pretty minor issue and theyre still executing way above the alternatives.

Apple has been doing it since the Power PC days, hardly news.

As did Alpha with Windows NT x86 executables.

It was impressive back in the 1990's.

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