Time to bring back the clones? I think banning them was one of the dumbest decisions Apple ever made.
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Replying to @wataruen
certainly it'd be nice to be able to run OS X on competitively priced hardware. but Apple's ability to offer and maintain quality software is also in very steep decline.
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Replying to @interfluidity
Allowing the clones would have resulted in a much larger user base, leading to a larger developer and application base, and giving more incentive to maintain their OS.
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Replying to @wataruen
that’s plausible! but given the poor quality even of Apple’s iOS apps, which they should have every incentive to maintain, i am skeptical. it’s not a sophisticated economic argument, but i think when they lost Jobs, they lost the asshole obsessive that was their secret sauce.
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Replying to @interfluidity @wataruen
more likely, they have asshole obsessives having engineers constantly working on the next big profitable flavor of the week, with arbitrary deadlines
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Replying to @stephenjudkins @wataruen
maybe so. all the churn in on-again, off-again auto stuff fits the thesis. but though they may be assholes and they may be obsessives, they are not asshole obsessive over managing the tradeoffs between simplicity, quality, and functionality in the way Jobs was. they get it wrong.
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Replying to @interfluidity @wataruen
No disagreement there. I suspect there's a problem, though, when market salaries for engineers start to reach $1M/year. Once it's enough to retire to Portland or a farm somewhere or whatever after working for 10 years, why keep working for a $1B company you don't care about?
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Especially since everything I've heard through the grapevine is that Apple isn't as great a place to work these days, and there's no really inspiring mission anymore, and all your non-techie friends have been priced out....
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Replying to @stephenjudkins @wataruen
i believe it. socially the bay area is dystoptian (though of course physically it is lovely). and apple, the one SV behemoth i have an emotional attachment to, is in a dark age.
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Replying to @interfluidity @wataruen
The weather and scenery are quite lovely, and parts of SF, Berkeley, and Oakland are great. But when I've visited Silicon Valley I'm stunned that the urban form is charmless strip mall sprawl, except everything is expensive and generic mid-century ranch homes go for $1M
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$2M not $1M
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