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"Pink" also brought us Dylan, Kaleida and Taligent. The old Mac team was pretty core to General Magic w/ IBM, Motorola and AT&T as partners. A lot of it was pre
by ci5er 6y ago
"Pink" also brought us Dylan, Kaleida and Taligent. The old Mac team was pretty core to General Magic w/ IBM, Motorola and AT&T as partners. A lot of it was pretty good! But it suffered from a top-down "from on high" market introduction, and somehow never got traction. Which is too bad. (General Magic's mobile agent model also had some unfortunate dynamic security effects when an agent "traveled to a 'bad neighborhood' to compute on the results of a query, it wasn't allowed back into the gated-community good neighborhoods to deliver results. Large distributed systems got pretty unusable pretty fast. Unfortunate - because I liked the vision - and some super-smart people worked on it - and I was surprised they didn't catch that early on)
- scarface74 6y agoIsn’t that the point? “Smart People” had free reign and couldn’t ship.
- ci5er 6y agoThey could ship ... but to whom? Marketing and market timing and product-market fit. (Ref: why didn't Smalltalk take over the world)
- scarface74 6y agoThat still kind of making my point. The right product at the wrong time is the wrong product. Post 1997 Apple, there was Jobs, Cook, Schiller, Ive and Forstall among others that actually focused on shipping products instead of letting the “smart people” run wild. All indications is that they balanced each other out as leaders.
- ci5er 6y agoTrue. But I don't think it is just that.