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Woz nailed it. Also, nevermind the bands for a moment. I had a digital Timex watch in the 1980s that was more responsive than the iWatch. Form eclipses funct
by tslug 11y ago
Woz nailed it.
Also, nevermind the bands for a moment. I had a digital Timex watch in the 1980s that was more responsive than the iWatch. Form eclipses function now. That wasn't a thing that happened in his day.
Back then, when you got an Apple ][+, you got schematics, port assignments, ROM and DOS listings. It was truly your computer, and no piece of it would ever need be a mystery. It was a computer that made love to developers.
Look at how OSX is developed now. It's getting iOSified. It's not open source. You can find random processes firing up on it like Wifi_Agent or kernel_task that take meaningful chunks of CPU time, but they don't really give you the tools to easily analyze what's going on anymore. The firmware, OS, and hardware have become opaque.
That was all Steve Jobs' influence. That and the iPhone.
I got rid of my phone years ago. It's annoying. I use my computer for communication. I am a developer, but Apple doesn't give much of a hoot about us. The Mac App Store is dead. XCode is really unpleasant. Whatever they're doing in VR now, they're not playing well with others.
I would like to think if Wozniak were running the show, that he just wouldn't have allowed things to head this developer- and computer-hostile direction.