Gregory's ServerSlightly offtopic — am I the only one who's mildly annoyed that Apple, the company that made itself famous by building outstanding computer hardware and software, is now also a bank and a movie studio? Steve must be spinning in his grave so furiously.
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 @grishka Why? Apple can be all of those things. Steve’s Apple has always been about outstanding hardware + software + services; Tim only gave services a promotion to top billing. Steve had iTunes, iTools & .Mac, MobileMe, iAd and an iPhoto printing service. He also literally tried to make a credit card himself back in 2004: https://kensegall.com/2019/05/20/the-ghost-of-apple-card-past/  @dgriffinjones @grishka I feel like those examples under Steve could be grouped into three distinct categories: "digital hub", "enhancing the mac experience", and "developer". So everything felt targeted and purposeful even if the execution was a bit shit. But here it feels more...aimless? Like a high yield savings account or actually running a production studio for feature films and then vying for academy awards. I just find it weird for the brand; it's Colgate Lasagna.  sam henri gold, Colgate Lasagna! That's a neat phrase. It makes me imagine something that looks like a lasagna but is in cold colors and tastes like toothpaste. It's almost like Apple Car... oh wait. @samhenrigold @grishka I’ll admit, the only one it doesn’t work for is Apple TV+. People praised them upon launch for mimicking the HBO strategy of quality-over-quantity, but clearly that was out of necessity of starting from zero, not because they wanted to. They’re shoveling out shows at an incredible pace and some have been real stinkers. Same as anyone else. Григорий, so yeah, the software I'm writing this from, Smithereen, does have a limited scope. I plan to call it complete at some point and then just stop actively developing it. I do have lots of features planned, most of which no one has attempted in a federated social media service before, but it's still a finite number. Like photo albums with tagging. Or global search for users with bloom filters for peer servers (this needs testing in practice). D. Griffin Jones, I feel obliged to point out that your pixel-art profile picture fits pixel-perfectly into my comment layout.   @grishka @samhenrigold hard to say. Many of the mantras he applied at Apple were because he was trying to reform a failing company, ca. 1997. Dramatically simplified line-up and all. By 2011, the company had grown, but the massive growth spurt happened right after his death. So it’s difficult to extrapolate how he would’ve run a 2023 Apple. @grishka @samhenrigold he was also against music subscriptions, for example. He thought music was something you wanted to own; something very personal. But perhaps he would’ve eventually understood, with Spotify’s rise, that this was a very 1960s take for a 2020s world. |
@grishka It's perfectly valid; their services push has definitely hurt UX overall https://stevestreza.com/2020/02/17/ios-adware/