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by sprafa 7y ago
Steve thought of it as The Beatles model - the team should bring out the best in everyone around them. Look at how many people pushed back on him and made great things happen - the iTunes on Windows. The App Store on iOS. Etc etc
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by sprafa 7y ago
Considering all that I’ve had done, it might be hard to tamper him down. He might (wild speculation incoming) have thought of himself as equal to Steve and maybe he didn’t take it well to keep reporting to someone else. I mean he still spea
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by sprafa 7y ago
iOS had a ton of mistakes, not just trade offs. I understand that yeah, I didn’t figure them out myself, but just looking at the Nielsen Norman usability studies you could see there was a lot to be improved on (and they did, to their credit
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by sprafa 7y ago
Yep! I think it’s a fantastic machine that looks great. Same with the screen.
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by sprafa 7y ago
Do you think they don’t?
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by sprafa 7y ago
If we weren’t hacking into Yandex, I’d be asking for new chiefs at the intelligence agencies who would. What the heck of the point of an agency if you’re not gathering intelligence?
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by sprafa 7y ago
From Daring Fireball speculation his move to Chief Design Officer was already a move for him to be distanced from day to day design. Sort of a soft firing already, but by moving him up.
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by sprafa 7y ago
Assuming the market valuation of this I worth a cent. Which... it probably isn’t.
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by sprafa 7y ago
As much as we can man-myth the man, he’s got one of the best design teams on the planet around him. Unless they all leave (and even if they do, they could replace them all with the second best design team in the world quickly as all industr
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by sprafa 7y ago
They’ve done enormous changes since 7 to improve it. 7 was absurd - buttons looked like simple text everywhere. I always had to toggle on a function where buttons became underlined so I could use the thing. There was huge criticism even in
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by sprafa 7y ago
I think it’s fine they made it this way but they still should have kept the ACTUAL Pro line - ie a more versatile machine. The new MacBook Pro’s just don’t cut it as much for professional applications as they used to (at least in my field o
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by sprafa 7y ago
What’s wrong with the new Mac?
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by sprafa 7y ago
That speaker was GORGEOUS though.
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by sprafa 7y ago
The Mac Pro makes sense in a media production environment for very specific reasons. I work in filmmaking and motion design and you would sell your mother for that machine.
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by sprafa 7y ago
That seems radical. You really think Ive is going? He’s been there for decades.
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by sprafa 7y ago
One can hope, but I’m sure his decisions were not based off design quirkiness entirely. Apple must have a department that shows people want thinner and thinner laptops and that’s what they aim for. Right?
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by sprafa 7y ago
Controversial opinion: Microsoft is making better hardware design decisions and better hardware design overall than Apple atm. It’s the software which continues to be the issue for me.
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by sprafa 7y ago
I have nothing but pure unadulterated love for my iPhone SE. I can’t imagine myself with a bigger phone and I’m just waiting for them to make a similar new model. Sometimes I wonder if they will though. I feel the same way about pre Touch B
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by sprafa 7y ago
You’ve worked/met him?
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by sprafa 7y ago
I suppose hiring people like this (and this is he one we hear about they could have hired 20-30 people without anyone noticing) is a way to shortcut such R&D
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by sprafa 7y ago
What’s wrong with Firefox?
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by sprafa 7y ago
Yeah pretty much. It’s fascinating why he hasn’t arrived at the same conclusion. The man has his strengths but the actual nuts and bolts of running a company day to day does not appear to be his sharpest edge. Surely even he can see that, s
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by sprafa 7y ago
True, particularly about double click, but is YouTube really a well managed acquisition? It seems to be a victim of Google’s schizo approach to product in the sense that every 12 months it seems to be following a new strategy or launching a
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by sprafa 7y ago
Hahah I did not know that. What I meant was lots of third world military and militia types use technicals, that’s all.
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by sprafa 7y ago
It was an article on hacker news. I cba to find it but will link if I do. Of course it’s important to provide sources.
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by sprafa 7y ago
Essentially some of best acquisitions in recent history (although I’d say FB has done better but they had their evil ways). Pretty much the opposite of Google.
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by sprafa 7y ago
Musk as the CEO of anything has been less than great. At PayPal e was forced out, at Tesla <no comment take your own conclusions> and at SpaceX my understand is he is at arm’s length and has someone else administer the company - which
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by sprafa 7y ago
It’s not really limited to terrorists, is it? I mean in the popular imagination but essentially technicals are actually great for a lot of rough terrain variable condition combat. But yeah I understand it’s a big deal in the popular imagina
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by sprafa 7y ago
I see so I was mistaken about that. I still don’t understand why people don’t see that it would be trivial for a major bank (or now that Bitcoin has grown, a government) to look into making enough computational power they would destroy it.
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by sprafa 7y ago
I saw him in person in london and he was asked about Bitcoin. As the last sentence of his answer he said and I’m paraphrasing: “If you’re asking about the idea of apolitical money [in relation to Bitcoin] I think that’s a fantasy”. I’ll try

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