Or one of Cook’s successors bringing back Forstall or Ive (or anybody who shared Job’s vision and goals for Apple).
Not sure if Woz would know what to
do with something like today’s Apple.
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Or one of Cook’s successors bringing back Forstall or Ive (or anybody who shared Job’s vision and goals for Apple).
Not sure if Woz would know what to
do with something like today’s Apple.
I presume you're referring to modernism and the Bauhaus. Clearly modernism is not new. That is obvious.
“Nothing better” does not make Harmony “good”.
[doublepost=1563278727][/doublepost]Presumably there is an alternate timeline where Jobs stayed at Next and became what Apple is today.
OSX and by heirarchy Watch/TV/iOS all are created from an evolution of NeXT's SDK!
Networking
Windowing
Kernel components all began life with NeXT OS>
Uh ok whatever man. Mine turns my components on and off in the correct sequence and even manages to account for my projector’s peculiar double-press power sequence. And it beats the hell out of working three remotes to watch a movie. So, unless you have a better suggestion this isn’t particularly helpful.
I actually worked with or owned two NeXT computers. The first was the original cube that came out in the late 80's. It was owned by my university and was being used in the physics department to run simulations.
That thing was like science fiction. No computer out at the time could hold a candle to it, and the CD drive, though slow, held so much information that it seemed seemingly inexhaustible. The monitor was so big that it felt like my neck would wear out having to move my head back and forth to see the whole thing. (It was about 16.5" diagonal - ha!)
Several years later I purchased a nextstation turbo. It took everything magical about the original cube and just made it faster. At the time I also spent $1400 to buy an additional 450MB hard drive (note the "M"... not a "G").
I loved those machines.
An additional funny story. At that time I was also friends with some Apple engineers. When I told them that I had purchased a NeXT station they were both envious and dismissive.
Envious because they knew (and admitted) that this machine was years ahead of anything else on the market. Dismissive because the writing was already on the wall for NeXT. When I said I hoped NeXT would survive, they said not to worry. The tech was so good that it wouldn't disappear. Just the name. Somebody would purchase it and it would live on.
How right they were.
As an aside, with regard to Woz, he has done amazing things with his life. Things that Jobs never even came close to achieving. But these things all involved directly connecting with people who needed him as a teacher or philanthropist, and not so much things that would turn into money. Jobs accomplished a lot, but from (nearly) first hand knowledge, he was an ******* disinterested in helping anyone who wasn't already successful.* He may have built the world's most successful company, but Woz is the person I'd rather have an army of.
*source: my brother who briefly worked with him to get Apple to contribute to philanthropic causes. It was an almost complete failure.
That thing was like science fiction. No computer out at the time could hold a candle to it, and the CD drive, though slow, held so much information that it seemed seemingly inexhaustible. The monitor was so big that it felt like my neck would wear out having to move my head back and forth to see the whole thing. (It was about 16.5" diagonal - ha!)
Several years later I purchased a nextstation turbo. It took everything magical about the original cube and just made it faster. At the time I also spent $1400 to buy an additional 450MB hard drive (note the "M"... not a "G").
I loved those machines.
An additional funny story. At that time I was also friends with some Apple engineers. When I told them that I had purchased a NeXT station they were both envious and dismissive.
Envious because they knew (and admitted) that this machine was years ahead of anything else on the market. Dismissive because the writing was already on the wall for NeXT. When I said I hoped NeXT would survive, they said not to worry. The tech was so good that it wouldn't disappear. Just the name. Somebody would purchase it and it would live on.
How right they were.
As an aside, with regard to Woz, he has done amazing things with his life. Things that Jobs never even came close to achieving. But these things all involved directly connecting with people who needed him as a teacher or philanthropist, and not so much things that would turn into money. Jobs accomplished a lot, but from (nearly) first hand knowledge, he was an ******* disinterested in helping anyone who wasn't already successful.* He may have built the world's most successful company, but Woz is the person I'd rather have an army of.
*source: my brother who briefly worked with him to get Apple to contribute to philanthropic causes. It was an almost complete failure.
I’d like to clarify that I was by no means belittling Woz’s life achievements with the comments above, although I Allan appreciate it might have read that way.
By “anything like” I entirely meant “in the same category of” not “with the same impact or value”.
Woz is a pretty amazing person. I’m merely saying that I don’t think his goals or direction in life is even remotely compatible with Apple’s, so it’s not likely he’s going to come back to Apple to “save” it even if invited/begged/paid lots to/whatever.
Glad Harmony is working for you. I’ve found them to be tedious and flakey. Just sharing my opinion, same as you.
Again, interested to hear of a better alternative if one is out there. I came across something the other day called "Caavo" that wanted a monthly subscription (lol) so that was a hard pass.
My memory of Jobs includes the fact that he was running Apple into the ground so he got fired by the Board. You think Apple is overpriced today compared to the competition...it was much worse with Jobs during his first stint. Then Jobs founded NeXT, and that company takes a slow path to bankruptcy until it gets saved by Apple as it was dwindling down to nothing. Turns out that Apple saving NeXT from a slow corporate death also saved itself from the same thing. Both Jobs and Apple got lucky.
I remember seeing this back in the day. What was interesting was that the catalog had what we call "high production values." Thick paper, excellent finish, first-class printing and typography and graphics. Almost 2x thicker than a catalog of similar page count would have been. We speculated that it was to give the impression that there was more there than was actually there. Increase the Thud Factor. Drive credibility that NeXT would be a force.
I love high-quality catalogs of products I have an interest in. These days very few companies put the time and effort into such things. It's a simple and satisfying pleasure to pour a cup of coffee and sit down with a good catalog and enjoy the content and all the work put into it.
I saw a Next Cube in 1989 in a lab at UCSF - it was connected to the "internet", which back then allowed research labs to share data and papers. I was unimpressed at the time. It took me awhile to figure out what the "internet" was back then. Sadly, it took AOL to introduce me.
This is great computer history. I came across the 1990 edition of this catalog. Here are a few pictures shared in the spirit of fair use - sharing only a limited number of images. These pictures given an idea of what other NeXT products were featured in the second edition of the catalog.
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