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Hence Apple narrative is around Steve Jobs - great product manager, great marketing person, decisive; company elevating ordinary ('oldish' tech) to extraordinar

• ajkjk 4y ago
  Apple's narrative, and what Steve Jobs got, was that to get a real hit it's not enough to ship a thing, it has to also be good. Figma did the same thing. Figma is so incredibly better than what it was replacing, it was obvious how successful it would be to anyone who used it.
  • achow 4y ago
    True but this argument is non sequitur. Figma as mentioned earlier executed beautifully, no doubt. But the blog narrative is somehow projecting that Figma had vision of WebGL vis-a-vis browser based graphic tools, which I know is not really true and somewhat akin to history is being written by victor. Instead, Dylan & I talked about the transition from Desktop to Web 2.0, and whether now was the right time to bring graphic design to the cloud. John Lilly & I had discussed a hypothesis about this while I was at Greylock, and it was one where I had come to have conviction. The basic premise was that the combination of Web 2.0, Social, and Mobile had finally created the possibility of building truly useful and user-friendly collaborative software in the cloud... This is also disrespectful to the pioneers - nary a word was wasted on people who came before Figma on browser as well as desktop. I wish there was atleast one line dedicated to 'Sketch' software - early version of Figma UI was copy-paste of Sketch one.