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Pretty tortured analogy made worse by the fact that Apple is on every metric a more successful company after Steve Jobs.
by threeseed 2y ago
Pretty tortured analogy made worse by the fact that Apple is on every metric a more successful company after Steve Jobs.
- SoftTalker 2y agoThey are also a company that exists outside of history books thanks to Steve Jobs.
- xnx 2y agoThey might be referring to the early 1990's Apple, before Steve Jobs came back.
- ggm 2y agoThe one experientially almost nobody in the cohort today experienced.
- jvanderbot 2y agoI wasn't a consumer back then but I absolutely know the analogy and followed the logic.
- ggm 2y agoYes it's a compelling analogy. I just find it striking this event is closer to the end of the Vietnam war 22 years before Job's return to Apple in 1997, than the 27 years from 97 to today. There are almost certainly HN readers who weren't alive in 97, and yet the Jobs story works much as "It became necessary to destroy the town to save it" vietnam era quotes work: they're part of the culture now. I doubt we have many 13 year old HN people but it won't be long before there's a cohort here who lived entirely in a post Jobs world.
- kaonwarb 2y agoSome things that matter can't be measured.
- danielmarkbruce 2y agoSeriously. A very wise man once said as much.