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No offense to app devs, but I don't think they represent "the best and the brightest". Those types are working at Google on voice recognition, self-driving car

No offense to app devs, but I don't think they represent "the best and the brightest". Those types are working at Google on voice recognition, self-driving cars. Or they're working on Cisco working on scaling the internet. No offense to Marco, who's probably a better programmer than I, but he always came across to me as a really good product and design guy. Someone who has a knack for UX but can also program. I think working on these "problems" is a good place for him. What gets me is when Facebook starts hiring the best engineers away from Google and Microsoft to go work on Deals and Messages. That Lars Rasmussen built Maps (one of Google's 2 killer apps) and the awe-inspiring, but before it's time Wave, and now is doing who knows what trivial (though I'm sure technically hard) thing at Facebook is a real shame.

tolmasky 16y ago
There's different kinds of best. I think its fair to say that a lot these people are the best when it comes to the scoped problem of consumer apps (and similarly, the Google guys are terrible at this, and they're both important fronts -- I don't think Google could have pulled of the original Mac which is just as important as many of the problems they work on). And as such, I don't feel that because you are "just" a consumer app guy its fair to essentially say stick to these trivialities. Imagine the design sense of some of these guys applied to medical or scientific apps. It would be incredible. I see my father use the most horrific and inefficient web interfaces in the universe to find papers or do gene cutting. Now there's a space waiting to be disrupted with usability.