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And then you can hear the sucking void of silence of a response from the crowd and a few months later an sdk was out.
by Marazan 10y ago
And then you can hear the sucking void of silence of a response from the crowd and a few months later an sdk was out.
- dave2000 10y agoWell he changed his mind more often and quickly than you can say "magical thinking". Still, better to seem certain when speaking to investors, developers and other get-rich-quick types.
- danudey 10y agoOn the other hand: it's okay to be wrong if you can admit that you're wrong, it's okay to change your mind, and, of course, circumstances can change.
- ZeroGravitas 10y agoIt was a crowd of Apple Mac OS X developers though, with a great deal of expertise in Obj-C, not the web, so it shouldn't be taken as an objective verdict on whether it was a good strategy or not.
- dzhiurgis 10y agoI think it was inevitable. And probably planned for a second release too. Not that web APIs were lacking, but purely from performance perspective. By then, web was designed for 2GHz/2Gb desktop, not a 200MHz cpu from a dvd player.