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Apple loses father of Mac OS X Bertrand Serlet

• rch 16y ago
  I'd be interested to hear him speak about how product-focused development affects engineering decisions.
• nfg 16y ago
  Other discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2359112 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2359112
• npalli 16y ago
  Sertlet’s departure may indicate a diminishing role for Apple’s desktop operating system as the iOS, the operating system for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, becomes a larger focus Looks like Scott Forstall is the new king. Mac engineering being a legacy line within the company.
  • edge17 16y ago
    "may indicate" usually means "lets wildly speculate without evidence"
  • msbarnett 16y ago
    The fact that a lot of of Serlet's work also appears in iOS renders that line of reasoning largely unintelligible.
• farlington 16y ago
  No disrespect to Bertrand Serlet, but I thought Avie Tevanian was the 'father of Mac OS X'
  • Zev 16y ago
    Avie was responsible for a lot of the Darwin code. Bertrand for a lot of the Aqua and AppKit code from when it was still NeXT Workspace. He also ran the OS X team after Avie left Apple up until today.