Well. Give me 1 Billion euros and let us bet. :)
On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 5:19 PM, Dimitris Chloupis <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 11:28 PM Stephane Ducasse <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> https://youtu.be/keCwRdbwNQY >> >> I would love to have $ to market Pharo but I like this talk >> >> Stef >> > > Let's be sincere here, there would have been no Apple without Steve. > > Ironically even Steve was not aware of his massive importance. When he was > asked about Windows share on the OS market and what hope MacOS has battling > a Goliath that Microsoft is , Steve said that there could be no competition > and no hope other than increasing the shared from 3% at the time to 5% the > next 5 years. > > MacOS increased its share to 10% instead and when everyone predicted that > macs are no longer the focus of the company, Apple smelled the roses and saw > that maybe OS market is not as hopeless as they initially thought. As a > result we had the 5k iMac , a computer that costed at its release as much it > costed to get the monitor alone and then the iMac pro. > > Truth is that known really knows the market, not even Steve, none can really > predict it and none can really manipulate it. Its made for humans by humans > and so its influenced by the chaos that is called human emotion. > > However I agree with Steve. > > If you have to choose between 1 billion dollars or the ability to greatly > inspire people, you will be foolish to pick the first. > > Personally I think a big obstacle for Pharo is not money but this part. > > If one opens Pharo without knowing anything about it , his first reaction > will be "so what ?". > > Why ? > > Because there is no obvious thing to inspire. > > Pharo ability to inspire requires a deep introduction to the language and > considerably experience till you get at least the basics. > > This is our greatest weakness. > > We have prioritized coder productivity and we have sacrificed smooth > learning curve. Meaning there is a lot of friction to be introduced to Pharo > but once you do and learn the basics its easy to fall in love with the whole > ideology that Pharo is. > > Frankly Pharo has improved this already, Squeak was a mess and Pharo did a > lot of clean up. Unfortunately smooth learning curve is a secondary priority > and this will be growing issue the more complex Pharo becomes and let's face > it Pharo is a very complex environment already. > > So sorry Stef , you know I don't have an issue admiring when you are correct > but in this one you are very wrong. > > Python had no money at all, actually I am willing to bet it had less than > Pharo, but Python offered this super smooth learning curve and it now > dominates the programming field. > > Ironically I think Pharo would have been a far better choice in this field. > > Why ? > > - The language is much easier and simpler > > - We got a much better VM with far higher performance > > - We have a proper IDE that is fully open source, free and only one, instead > of a thousand variants of the same thing > > etc. > > Also as the video implied it does not matter how much money you throw at > marketing. Many companies throw a ton of money and they get close to nothing > in return. > > It's extremely hard to buy inspiration, you either have it , or you don't. > > Ironically I am writting this lines on my iMac using Windows. I am a Windows > hater but I got to admit, Microsoft seems to finally get the message, not > only the open sourced .NET which make a huge part of Windows they also made > Windows 10 far more stable , slick and well designed. Windows 10 may become > the only version of Windows I manage to like. > > I am sure it's not because they throw more money to it. More like they throw > more brains to it.
