You greatly underestimate the level of senior executive talent at Apple. I've met seven of Apple's senior VPs, and there are several people there who could run the company quite well. They wouldn't have Steve's panache of course, but when it comes to making decisions of what products and features to go with, Steve's not the only person at Apple who can do that right.
One thing that people don't realize about Steve, is that he's done an amazing job of recruitment. Tim Cook is probably probably the best operations exec in the world. Ron Johnson took Apple retail from a standing start to a billion in revenues in less time than any other retail operation in history. Eddy Cue made Apple the biggest music retailer in the world. Sina Tamadon basically took over the pro video market from Avid, and the list goes on.
You are mistaken. Apple's got a world-class VLSI design team, including among others, the lead designer of the DEC Alpha. (He was running PA Semi when Apple acquired them.)
-jcr
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The "OMG I must invest in Apple right now!" moment was when they introduced the iPod Nano.
For me it was the day that Apple announced they were buying NeXT. If Amelio had picked Be instead, then Apple, Be, and NeXT would all have vanished almost a decade ago.
The cat names are getting a bit tiresome, IMHO. I'd like to see the last cat name be "Panzer", which would segue into world war two hardware, so we could have releases with names like "Mustang", "Corsair", and "Garand".
Yeah, Apple's pretty flexible about hours, as long as you get to whatever meetings you've agreed to attend and you hit your target dates for deliverables. I know people there who work noon to midnight, 6 AM to 3PM, and so on. People on the same development team tend to shoot for mostly overlapping hours.
It's pretty amazing to be able to do that kind of work knowing that Stalin will have your whole family killed if you don't succeed. What a hellacious amount of pressure.
After last year's embarrassing decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize for Wishful Thinking and Teleprompter Reading, it's good to see them give the prize to someone who actually deserves recognition again.
Actually, I'd love to see them revive the "MacPaint" and "MacDraw" names. They could issue an equivalent to Photoshop and bundle it with iLife, or even publish the code as a developer sample project like they do with TextEdit.
I heard they're not even going to port FCP to Cocoa.
That's probably true, but it doesn't mean what you think it does. Apple owns the pro video and film editing business. They're not going to give that up. That being said, a "port" of FCP to Cocoa doesn't make any sense. What would make sense is a full rewrite, using Cocoa, Core Image, Core Video, and Core Animation.
More like, individuals pursuing their own goals will do a better job of allocating resources than a pack of bureaucrats trying to manage the economy. Your characterization of the free market as some kind of miracle betrays your own ignorance.
Any other plane would already have access to that information from the air traffic control system. An iPhone app isn't going to be the thing that enables a suicidal terrorist to succeed.
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You greatly underestimate the level of senior executive talent at Apple. I've met seven of Apple's senior VPs, and there are several people there who could run the company quite well. They wouldn't have Steve's panache of course, but when it comes to making decisions of what products and features to go with, Steve's not the only person at Apple who can do that right.
One thing that people don't realize about Steve, is that he's done an amazing job of recruitment. Tim Cook is probably probably the best operations exec in the world. Ron Johnson took Apple retail from a standing start to a billion in revenues in less time than any other retail operation in history. Eddy Cue made Apple the biggest music retailer in the world. Sina Tamadon basically took over the pro video market from Avid, and the list goes on.
-jcr
But they do no chip design.
You are mistaken. Apple's got a world-class VLSI design team, including among others, the lead designer of the DEC Alpha. (He was running PA Semi when Apple acquired them.)
-jcr
The "OMG I must invest in Apple right now!" moment was when they introduced the iPod Nano.
For me it was the day that Apple announced they were buying NeXT. If Amelio had picked Be instead, then Apple, Be, and NeXT would all have vanished almost a decade ago.
-jcr
The cat names are getting a bit tiresome, IMHO. I'd like to see the last cat name be "Panzer", which would segue into world war two hardware, so we could have releases with names like "Mustang", "Corsair", and "Garand".
-jcr
Yeah, Apple's pretty flexible about hours, as long as you get to whatever meetings you've agreed to attend and you hit your target dates for deliverables. I know people there who work noon to midnight, 6 AM to 3PM, and so on. People on the same development team tend to shoot for mostly overlapping hours.
-jcr
And as we speak, some promoter is trying to figure out how to sue NASA for fifty one years of back royalties.
-jcr
They're just made of a more fragile material.
It's not very fragile.
-jcr
USSR economy "failing so badly" is propaganda.
Ask anyone who lived there.
GDP of USSR
GDP is a pretty slippery number, because it includes activities that aren't productive. You can't eat nuclear missiles, can you?
-jcr
Look, privatized fire departments don't work.
That will be news to these people.
They don't make economic sense.
Oh, really?
From a quick glance at their ten-year chart and their market valuation, I'd have to conclude that you don't know what you're talking about.
-jcr
Ask any real estate agent about it.
-jcr
>I sometimes think how the world would work if there weren't the internet we know of today.
We'd have an internet based on some protocol other than TCP/IP.
-jcr
It's pretty amazing to be able to do that kind of work knowing that Stalin will have your whole family killed if you don't succeed. What a hellacious amount of pressure.
-jcr
>Why the hell is this moderated as Troll?
Obama has a lot of fans, and sometimes they get mod points. Don't sweat it.
-jcr
After last year's embarrassing decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize for Wishful Thinking and Teleprompter Reading, it's good to see them give the prize to someone who actually deserves recognition again.
-jcr
We elect professionals to do that job
The Soviets had "professionals" to do that, too. Didn't work out too well.
-jcr
Actually, I'd love to see them revive the "MacPaint" and "MacDraw" names. They could issue an equivalent to Photoshop and bundle it with iLife, or even publish the code as a developer sample project like they do with TextEdit.
-jcr
I heard they're not even going to port FCP to Cocoa.
That's probably true, but it doesn't mean what you think it does. Apple owns the pro video and film editing business. They're not going to give that up. That being said, a "port" of FCP to Cocoa doesn't make any sense. What would make sense is a full rewrite, using Cocoa, Core Image, Core Video, and Core Animation.
-jcr
If Microsoft buys Adobe, then Apple would go ahead and develop replacements for Photoshop and Illustrator.
-jcr
>And they are wrong.
And you're the superman who can do a better job of deciding what people need than they can themselves, eh?
Friedrich Hayek coined a term for that attitude of yours. He called it "the Fatal Conceit".
-jcr
More like, individuals pursuing their own goals will do a better job of allocating resources than a pack of bureaucrats trying to manage the economy. Your characterization of the free market as some kind of miracle betrays your own ignorance.
-jcr
The last thing I want to see is an efficient government. In the words of Will Rogers, "Thank heaven we don't get all the government we pay for."
-jcr
You can buy them and fly them, but the feds will make you prove that they're not carrying any ordnance.
-jcr
Any other plane would already have access to that information from the air traffic control system. An iPhone app isn't going to be the thing that enables a suicidal terrorist to succeed.
-jcr
Leave the signs as they are, and refund that money to the taxpayers.
-jcr
You should pay anyone a price that's mutually agreeable to you both.
-jcr