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In your rush to attach the pejorative label of "bully" to Jobs, you've missed the point of the story. The developer made a tool which let Jobs rapidly iterate
by waterlesscloud 11y ago
In your rush to attach the pejorative label of "bully" to Jobs, you've missed the point of the story.
The developer made a tool which let Jobs rapidly iterate through a number of ideas until he saw what he liked. There's no reason to believe he knew what he wanted until he could experiment in a low-friction manner for himself. That's what the dev gave him.
- blackbeard 11y agoThis. You can't iterate through something without parameters and do the same. Look what happened to me: http://i.imgur.com/rCHiZyR.jpg http://i.imgur.com/rCHiZyR.jpg
- normloman 11y agoNo, you missed my point. Why does it matter what Steve Jobs liked? The tweaks in this story seemed to stem from Job's personal preference, and not any usability concerns.
- TheOtherHobbes 11y agoThe personal preferences of Jobs were possibly the single biggest contributor to making Apple the most successful consumer technology company in history. No one is going to argue he wasn't a rampaging narcissistic asshole. Even so - it makes no sense at all to ignore how much he steered the look and feel of Apple products, and of late 20th/early 21st century design in general. He was the only person working in computing with a consistent interest in design. Microsoft and IBM had zero interest, DEC had a minor interest in making nice-looking minis and mainframes, and the 8/16 bit micros often had some product design applied to the casing. No one else was thinking about software and GUI aesthetics at all.