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Steven Sinofsky has a good Twitter thread about this [1]. He's one of the few people actually qualified to talk about managing platforms and operating systems a
by IBM 9y ago
Steven Sinofsky has a good Twitter thread about this [1]. He's one of the few people actually qualified to talk about managing platforms and operating systems at Apple's scale.
[1] https://twitter.com/stevesi/status/963142502604779520 https://twitter.com/stevesi/status/963142502604779520
- pjmlp 9y agoGiven what he pushed for with Windows 8, and killing WP 7 alongside XNA, I am not so sure.
- IBM 9y agoThe alternative is hearing what web and app developers think Apple should/shouldn't be doing, which Twitter and HN are full of.
- runjake 9y agoIf you keep up with Sinofsky's writings, it seems like he's learned a lot of tough lessons from making some pretty big mistakes and come out the better for it.
- mathattack 9y agoYes. I enjoy his blog and twitter postings, but somehow his book didn't come alive for me.
- hyperrail 9y agoSteven Sinofsky wasn't in charge of Windows Phone when that division decided to have no device upgrade path from WP7 to WP8 (or, for that matter, no upgrade path _or_ application compatibility from WP6.5 to WP7.0). The person in charge of Windows Phone then was Terry Myerson, who had an entirely different reporting chain to Steve Ballmer from Sinofsky's. Myerson was later promoted to run R&D for all Microsoft operating systems in early 2014. (Yes, that means he was also the person responsible for killing Windows on phones most recently, at least for now.) The death of XNA also didn't happen under Sinofsky's watch. XNA came out of the Xbox division and was abandoned by the same division, before it was combined with Windows under Myerson. If anything, Myerson kept XNA alive longer by making sure it was still supported on WP8.0 and WP8.1 when he ran Windows Phone, and by ensuring that Windows continued to fund MonoGame as an open-source successor/replacement for XNA.
- jrs95 9y agoThe death of XNA is pretty disappointing, if they'd invested more in that then Microsoft could have basically made Unity.
- harrygeez 9y agoThe problem isn't in the tech but devs these days are reluctant to write for MSFT platforms, can't blame them though.
- pjmlp 9y agoThanks for the clarification.
- achompas 9y agoSeems to me like a person who has made mistakes and learned from them is exactly the type of person whose opinion matters here.
- thijsvandien 9y agoFor all I know, Sinofsky was responsible for making Windows 7 a major success after the Vista fiasco.
- username223 9y ago> 43/... Someone should do this poor guy a favor and set him up with a blog. Twitter is only slightly worse for writing essays than "yo" (yes, it exists; no, I have no idea whether it's a joke).
- runesoerensen 9y agohttps://medium.learningbyshipping.com/apples-software-problem-and-fixing-it-via-twitter-c941a905ba20 https://medium.learningbyshipping.com/apples-software-proble...
- gboudrias 9y ago> "yo" (yes, it exists; no, I have no idea whether it's a joke) Too many downloads for a joke... Maybe drug dealers use it?
- misterman101 9y agoI used it to coordinate coffee making. Yo the coffee group when you are making coffee, and anyone could yo back to request a cup. Worked great.
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