Morale of the story: So rather than support access, we should buy stocks? ;)
On Jun 8, 3:43 pm, Chris Adamson <[email protected]> wrote: > Two things that people don't often correctly perceive about Apple is > how it has deliberately kept head-count down, and how it focuses very > narrowly. Jobs is quoted in a 2008 Fortune interview <http:// > money.cnn.com/galleries/2008/fortune/0803/gallery.jobsqna.fortune/ > 6.html> about focus: > > "People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus > on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the > hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. > I'm actually as proud of many of the things we haven't done as the > things we have done." > > Now it's tragic when they de-focus on something you care about, like > the gradual neglect of Java over the last 5 years or so. Honestly, I > was in pain yesterday, reading about the Final Cut Pro guys on stage > showing off rinky-dink iMovie for iPhone. But the results speak for > themselves, don't they?. And so do the counter-examples: if this had > been the philosophy of Sun in the 2000's, maybe we wouldn't have had > any Project Darkstars or Project Looking Glasses, but maybe Sun would > still exist. > > The reason that Apple is now the number two US company in terms of > market capitalization is a perception of growth potential, and they're > betting heavily on where they can grow, which is their iPhone OS > devices. As a Mac owner, I'd like to see them fricking fix Snow > Leopard already. As the owner of a few dozen shares, I get why > they're throwing all their effort into iPhone/iPad. > > One last anecdote, to illustrate how they shift resources. Two years > ago, I used a paid support incident to get help writing a web radio > client with Core Audio (this is back before I had any idea what the > hell I was doing with CA, or how anything in the C-based Core > Foundation library worked). I got an initial response, and then > nothing for like two months. I met up with the ADC support engineer > at WWDC, and he apologized, saying that he and many other > _support_engineers_ had been pulled off of support and added to the > iPhone OS dev team to get iPhone 2.0 (the first one to support third- > party apps) out the door. [Small world, BTW: this guy is now my co- > author on the long-overdue Core Audio book] So that should tell you > something about Apple's tight staffing, and their willingness to put > all resources in one bucket. > > And it should be a reminder to not use a paid ADC support incident in > the Spring. But silly me, I did another one this Spring, to get help > with background install and startup of daemon processes, and after an > initial ack from a support engineer... total silence. Bet you he's > been cranking on iOS 4 all this time. > > --Chris > > On Jun 7, 8:13 pm, Michael Neale <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I remember back to the old "no java 6 for OS-X ZOMG !" days fondly. > > But it seems OS-X isn't being neglected by apple for java so much as > > just in general. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
