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Solution: hire them and include as an improved system setting. Obviously people want this.

by ypeterholmes 11y ago

pbhjpbhj 11y ago
Isn't the Apple way to invite them in to talk about their software intimating a buyout then incorporate the software features and sideline the other company? Just from a misremembered story I can't pull up from memory about Steve Jobs interactions with a music/audio software company in the earlier days of Apple.
- Steko 11y ago
  No, you misremembered it. Apple set up a meeting with Panic (makers of Audion) but they had to cancel because they were trying to get bought out by Aol. Apple ended up buying competitor SoundJam to use as the basis of iTunes and then still offered to hire the Audion devs but they declined. https://www.panic.com/extras/audionstory/ https://www.panic.com/extras/audionstory/ If you're looking for 10-15 year old story where Apple famously ate someone's lunch then Sherlock/Watson and Konfabulator/Dashboard are some of the more prominent examples but those are fairly obvious directions for OS makers to fill.
  - pbhjpbhj 11y ago
    Cool, thanks will revisit when I've chance to mitigate against misremembering again in the future ... I think it was parts such as: >"We also seem to remember Jobs painted us a vibrant (but genuinely honest) picture of how he viewed Audion fairing against iTunes: "It's like you guys are a little push-cart going down the railroad tracks, and we're a giant steam engine about to run you down." // That gave me the impression that stuck with me. Thanks for the sourced correction.
MBCook 11y ago
After they stuck a middle finger in Apple's face in public? Surely Apple already has people who are smart enough to do this. They have some of the most color accurate screens in the world and worked really hard on that kind of thing there's no way they don't have people who would know how to do this.

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Solution: hire them and include as an improved system setting. Obviously people want this.

by ypeterholmes 11y ago

Solution: hire them and include as an improved system setting. Obviously people want this.

pbhjpbhj 11y ago
Isn't the Apple way to invite them in to talk about their software intimating a buyout then incorporate the software features and sideline the other company? Just from a misremembered story I can't pull up from memory about Steve Jobs interactions with a music/audio software company in the earlier days of Apple.
- Steko 11y ago
  No, you misremembered it. Apple set up a meeting with Panic (makers of Audion) but they had to cancel because they were trying to get bought out by Aol. Apple ended up buying competitor SoundJam to use as the basis of iTunes and then still offered to hire the Audion devs but they declined. https://www.panic.com/extras/audionstory/ https://www.panic.com/extras/audionstory/ If you're looking for 10-15 year old story where Apple famously ate someone's lunch then Sherlock/Watson and Konfabulator/Dashboard are some of the more prominent examples but those are fairly obvious directions for OS makers to fill.
  - pbhjpbhj 11y ago
    Cool, thanks will revisit when I've chance to mitigate against misremembering again in the future ... I think it was parts such as: >"We also seem to remember Jobs painted us a vibrant (but genuinely honest) picture of how he viewed Audion fairing against iTunes: "It's like you guys are a little push-cart going down the railroad tracks, and we're a giant steam engine about to run you down." // That gave me the impression that stuck with me. Thanks for the sourced correction.
MBCook 11y ago
After they stuck a middle finger in Apple's face in public? Surely Apple already has people who are smart enough to do this. They have some of the most color accurate screens in the world and worked really hard on that kind of thing there's no way they don't have people who would know how to do this.