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My interpretation is, that in Apple's case, Steve getting cancer in the mid 2000's appears to have galvanized him, and by extension the entire company. I just
by watmough 15y ago
My interpretation is, that in Apple's case, Steve getting cancer in the mid 2000's appears to have galvanized him, and by extension the entire company.
I just read through all John Siracusa's OS X reviews, and things really moved fairly slowly for the first few years, then from Tiger on, man, stuff just starts to fire on all cylinders. Think about what else was happening at Apple, the iPad (shelved), the iPhone, the move to Intel, Aperture, the unibodies, the MacBook Air.
It's hard to imagine that this peculiar set of circumstances, that put a guy like Steve Jobs along with a huge cast of incredible hardware and software engineers, in one place, then inspired Steve by showing him his own mortality, could ever happen again.
- gruseom 15y agoInteresting conjecture, but these things must have been in the pipeline for several years. Plus the great run starts with the iPod in 2001.
- watmough 15y agoYes, I wouldn't argue that the iPod shows a vision, but the push on OS X, and other things, from 2004 or so onwards feels in a different league, at least to me, compared to around 2000. Also, look at how slowly OS X improved in the first few releases, and compare that with the way that every single iOS release just hits the ball out of the park. It's like night and day. Something that makes me somewhat uncomfortable, is the relatively lameness of Lion in comparison to what came before. To a small but noticeable proportion of users, including myself, Snow Leopard is more attractive than Lion, and luckily, it should be supported for a while by virtue of being the last 32-bit intel supporting OS X.