@blacklight No. I'm calling this out. It wasn't lost. It takes TIME and a MANDATE.

They made it right because they were give a huge amount of time to do very little. Even despite constraints we still do marvelously well when given the time to do those things.

If you want software like this? Stop pushing for new things and start polishing what we have to a MIRROR finish. Slow down and do it, but in that case don't expect a new iPhone every year.

Past people weren't smarter they had more *time*