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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, October 25 2012 @ 04:54 PM EDT |
The only thing is that the quality engineering was done by
others for Apple, and the core software (based on FreeBSD
code) was also done by someone else for Apple. All Apple did
was the specification, the UI, the marketing and the
branding.
When Apple did hardware themselves, they didn't make a very
good job of it- Apple III, Lisa, Mac were downright lousy in
terms of reliability, and even their best product, the Apple
II, wasn't very reliable compared to its competitors.
Similarly when Apple tried writing their own OS - OS/9 it
was a lousy, bug ridden, lousy performing rubbish. Only when
they used FreeBSD were they able to deliver a decent
operating system - OSX and iOS.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Tyro on Thursday, October 25 2012 @ 07:32 PM EDT |
When Apple was weak, it didn't do much evil. And Jobs was fanatical about
technical elegance and quality (even if he didn't always get things right).
Now Apple is powerful, and Jobs is gone. I think the new CEO is trying to carry
on Jobs policies *AS HE UNDERSTANDS THEM*. I'd be really surprised if he had
EITHER the vision or the passion of Jobs. But he knows that Jobs didn't like
certain companies infringing on what he saw as Apple's turf.
So I don't think that Apple is any worse than it was. It's just strong enough
than any injustice now hurts a lot more people, or hurts people a lot worse.
And it seems to have lost its virtues, though that has yet to be proven. Suing
people was never a virtue when done by Apple. It was a sin of arrogance that
was tolerated by people because so many other features of Apple were appreciated
by so many people. And when Apple was weak it didn't do it very often, and
usually others could see that it had good cause (even if not justice) on it's
side.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- Spinmeisters - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, October 25 2012 @ 07:54 PM EDT
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