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I'm probably in the minority that always hated the NeXT aesthetics. I was very worried when Apple bought them and was rooting for BeOS at the time. Thankfully t
by tambourine_man 5y ago
I'm probably in the minority that always hated the NeXT aesthetics. I was very worried when Apple bought them and was rooting for BeOS at the time. Thankfully they eventually went on very different direction with Aqua.
The HighRes versions on this site, however, are exquisite
- CyberRabbi 5y agoIf they bought Be they could not have bought NeXT since Gassée and Jobs were mortal enemies.
- tambourine_man 5y agoSure, it was undoubtably a much better choice all in all. Even Gassée would admit it himself. He's been pretty kind on Steve, on written word at least, over the last couple of decades.
- CyberRabbi 5y agoRight, I should have said that Jobs had extreme contempt toward Gassée.
- tambourine_man 5y agoAnd Gassée was hardly alone on being a target of Jobs's contempt :)
- CyberRabbi 5y agoI don’t know to what extent that is true but I do know that Jobs contempt of Gassée was not irrational, that is it was reasonably expected given Gassée’s actions toward him.
- tambourine_man 5y agoOh really? I'd like to know more about that soup opera if you have links handy.
- CyberRabbi 5y agoGassée testified to Scully and the board against Jobs, betraying Jobs’ trust and accusing him of planning a coup in the company. This is what got him ejected from Apple. Shortly after Gassée took over Jobs’s role as head of the Macintosh project. Jobs considered Gassée “evil” at least in 97 and probably until his death: https://allaboutstevejobs.com/bio/key_people/jean-louis_gassee https://allaboutstevejobs.com/bio/key_people/jean-louis_gass...
- tambourine_man 5y agoNice, thanks
- peatmoss 5y agoTechnologically speaking, I feel that OS X was a better choice (a more robust and developed platform). Qualitatively speaking, I loved everything about using BeOS—how snappy it was and the way applications felt like they could be thin extensions to the filesystem. However, as someone whose youth involved waaaay too many hours tweaking files called .fvwmrc, I knew that looks are important, but skin deep. Hard to say which aesthetic I preferred. BeOS’s stock blue background, golden yellow tabs, and simple icons always made me feel “happy” even if they didn’t feel as staid and sophisticated as NeXT.
- tambourine_man 5y agoYeah, NeXT was way more mature. Based on BSD, after all, what else can you say. And the GUI dev tools were second to none. But to the end user, the look and feel of BeOS hasn't been matched still.
- 0des 5y agoI had 3 simultaneously rotating 3d teapots on an early pentium.. Man I thought we had peaked as a society when I saw that, on my own machine!