webwielder2

>The tech industry generally speaking is hardly a model for good corporate governance

I’d love to know what industry is!

I've always gotten the impression that Microsoft was from the beginning more of a business enterprise than an engineering one. Gates and Allen wrote BASIC for the Altair, and then made it big by buying QDOS after Gary Kildall was out of the office when IBM came by for a meeting. Doesn't really compare with the revolutions of the Apple II and Macintosh.

I'd like to see a similar feature on our extermination of the Native Americans.

5. They live in the US.

The suggestion of metal detectors is laughable. You’d need to put one at the entrance of everyone’s home for that to be remotely effective. The solution is to ban guns, full stop. And then slowly start to address the rotten national psyche that has led to where we are today.

That’s a pretty dumb thing to say given all the excellent books written by younger people.

How about people get guaranteed certain rights and services by the government so we don’t have to worry about whether someone’s an employee or contractor?

I think what bothers me about all these Jony Ive articles is that they rarely differentiate between Ive the designer, Ive the art director, and Ive the product manager. Similarly, they fail to differentiate between whether something was good or bad based on its aesthetics, functionality, or market reception. In these articles, Ive is just functioning as a stand-in for Apple, as Jobs did before him. It betrays a lack of understanding of how companies (and design) actually work on the part of pundits and journalists.

It’s interesting to me how well-reported this seems, or maybe how it seems informed by ensuing decades of literature rather than being reported in the moment. Apple’s mythos, Jobs’s showmanship, and the importance of Xerox PARC and Apple’s deal with Xerox were all established lore very early on. I guess it’s just bias on my part that it seems like things would have been less clear or known at the time.

Losing only 5% market share 2 years after early 1980s IBM enters said market seems pretty good to me, actually.

Figma/Sketch don't use the box model. They are modeled after illustration programs. In fact Sketch IS an illustration program that like Photoshop before it got pressed into UI duty.

What are you entirely happy about?

But the giant self-promotional sidebar assures us that the content on the site is well-written, so you must be mistaken.

Google has indeed been much more successful at shipping vaporware.

Why must they have? Part of what distinguished the Mac GUI from PARC’s is the former’s refinement, elegance, and whimsy, contributed in large part by Kare.

You've described why Acorn may have had better technology than Apple but not why they are more important.

NeXT was an unintentional Apple skunkworks.

The article is literally about Apple's Echo competitor.

Just like the fabricated Bloomberg stories about Super Micro before it.

My great aunt Ethel uses a computer to forward chain emails. That doesn't make her any more qualified to be cyber-security minister.

The Verge are Google/Android fanboys at heart. Unclear to me how they got the iVerge moniker besides giving good scores to Apple’s objectively good devices.

Apple Final Cut and Motion

What's wrong with iTunes?

Here are some videos featured on the "Multimedia CD-ROM Starter Kit" that came with our Apple CD-ROM drive:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d38FTdo6_eE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkVeUejPo6k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDZegeNXkho

Apple attention to detail and build quality wins again.

Is that headline supposed to intentionally sound like the setup to a sci-fi horror movie?

This is not really an internal video, it’s a video made on campus by some employees. It reflects the rudderlessness and low morale of the company at the time, as it pursued a new strategy seemingly at odds with its values led by a complete nonentity of a new CEO.

I guess people will be nostalgic over just about anything.

I think both of those sentences are untrue.