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Au contraire, Steve Jobs responded to a mail asking him if the Mac was dead with "You couldn't be more wrong." and a "Stay tuned" type phrase (can't seem to fin
by aditya42 16y ago
Au contraire, Steve Jobs responded to a mail asking him if the Mac was dead with "You couldn't be more wrong." and a "Stay tuned" type phrase (can't seem to find the link right now).
I haven't gone through these slides thoroughly because I'm done with Microsoft peddling vapourware and getting our hopes up (coughCouriercough) only to sack the entire team (or whatever they did recently), but whatever I saw showed me a tighter integration with using the cloud as storage. The problem here is that Microsoft is trying to make a faster, leaner and better looking truck (to borrow Jobs' description) because it has lost the mobile game; at least for now. They're trying to maintain the status quo, but nothing in the last 10 years has shown me anything that tells me they will succeed. I don't believe in their ability to execute.
- josefresco 16y agoSorry but Jobs had similar things to say about the latest iPhone leading us all to believe something huge was coming. All we got however was an updated iPhone with a few new but under-whelming features. The moral is I wouldn't read much into what Job's says as he'll always be touting his next announcement as "huge" even if it's not. The first iPod, iPhone and iPad were game changers, the subsequent updates were not. The only revolutionary place that OSX can go is the way of the marketplace/app store and I don't see that happening anytime soon.
- tvon 16y agoIf OSX 10.7 is as well received as the iPhone 4 then OSX will do just fine. Not every update needs to be revolutionary.
- nickelplate 16y agoJobs only said there was no chance Google would leapfrog them, and that WWDC would not disappoint (which it didn't). No one expected iPhone 4 to be more of a game changer than the first iPhone.