* Peter da Silva <pe...@taronga.com> [2007-10-16 23:30]: > On 16-Oct-2007, at 14:09, A. Pagaltzis wrote: >> There’s a difference between making mistaken gut-feel tech >> bets and being careless in putting on a keynote show. Those >> keynotes are prepared and rehearsed as well as any Broadway >> show is. > > But only stuff Steve cares about is going to get fixed. I can't > imagine Steve caring about that kind of detail, Firefox is not > an Apple product or a Microsoft product so it's not on his > radar, the important thing is that it's showing Safari with a > bigger market share.
Q.E.D. for that blog post. > It's like when he did the iPod mini announcement and panned > flash players, and then a year later he came out with a flash > player. He always does that. If he dumps on an idea, you know he doesn't like it. However, if his position turns from "that sort of thing sucks and no one would want it" into "no one has done these well", then you can assume that such a product is in the works at Apple. Until it is finally release, his rhetoric will gradually turn toward specific flaws of existing examples of that kind of product. The iteration of the cycle eventually ends when he gets up on a stage and says "everyone else's sucks so we have done this right." >>> He makes decisions, he's got people to take care of the >>> details. And it works, because he's competing against >>> companies where they don't do that. > >> That's rather too simplistic. I think the reason Apple works >> is because they're the Disneyland of computing. > > That direction is one of those decisions. > > I don't like it. It doesn't work for me. It's lead to decisions > that make Apple's products less attractive to me. I'm with Mac > not because Steve Jobs is making the right decisions all the > time, but because the results of those decisions have produced > a product line that works for me. Not because they Apple cares > about the things that I care about, but because the Mac does > what I need better than the alternatives. By "cares about similar things" I meant they pay attention to aspects of their products that matter to me as a user of products of that kind. At least more so than other companies of their ilk. I think you are saying exactly what I was saying, not finding a contradiction at all. > So... that decision doesn't please everyone. But at least it's > a decision and he's sticking to it. I'd rather he stick to his > decisions, good or bad, than they all be good... because then > even if I have to put up with the bogus ones, at least I have > a reasonable confidence that they'll stick to the ones that > matter to me. Forget it. Apple's an enterprise, maybe not an evil one like Microsoft or (at least the old) IBM, but they're no wellfare organisation and aren't going to care about you or me unless it directly affects their bottom line. That's just reality. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
