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Have you any references to the Development and Commercialization he didn't excel at? I know of Kay by name, but not his life story.
by pbowyer 9y ago
Have you any references to the Development and Commercialization he didn't excel at? I know of Kay by name, but not his life story.
- username223 9y agoHe was a Xerox PARC guy back in the Smalltalk days, when they developed incredibly expensive systems that never really sold. In the 2000s, he was still griping about how everything was worse than PARC in the 1970s. I haven't paid much attention to him since then.
- pixelrevision 9y agoSee Apple. They took a lot of the inventions there and brought them to market.
- noblethrasher 9y agoWell, in a few of his presentations, he talks about the difference between invention, which is what PARC did, and innovation, which is what companies like Apple do.