On 16-Oct-2007, at 14:09, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
There’s a difference between making mistaken gut-feel tech
bets and being careless in putting on a keynote show. Those
keynotes are prepared and rehearsed as well as any Broadway
show is.
But only stuff Steve cares about is going to get fixed. I can't
imagine Steve caring about that kind of detail, Firefox is not an
Apple product or a Microsoft product so it's not on his radar, the
important thing is that it's showing Safari with a bigger market
share. It's like when he did the iPod mini announcement and panned
flash players, and then a year later he came out with a flash player.
He makes decisions, he's got people to take care of the
details. And it works, because he's competing against companies
where they don't do that.
That's rather too simplistic. I think the reason Apple works is
because they're the Disneyland of computing.
That direction is one of those decisions.
I don't like it. It doesn't work for me. It's lead to decisions that
make Apple's products less attractive to me. I'm with Mac not because
Steve Jobs is making the right decisions all the time, but because
the results of those decisions have produced a product line that
works for me. Not because they Apple cares about the things that I
care about, but because the Mac does what I need better than the
alternatives.
So... that decision doesn't please everyone. But at least it's a
decision and he's sticking to it. I'd rather he stick to his
decisions, good or bad, than they all be good... because then even if
I have to put up with the bogus ones, at least I have a reasonable
confidence that they'll stick to the ones that matter to me.
