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Comment Re: Time to go back to the drawing board (Score 3, Insightful) 92

Apple has never been capable of a clean rewrite. The culture there isn't capable of 'inventing' something that big, and NIH is the holy gospel. They tried to write a new preemptive multitasking OS to replace the hoary old pascal-based MacOS when MacOS 9 was growing long in the tooth. Pink/Taligent was a disaster. They failed so badly that Jobs had to come back and take over with the Unix derived workalike from NeXT, which notably was developed OUTSIDE the Apple fogzone.

It's really a pity they didn't go with BeOS instead. That was some fresh new design, again from people who had escaped the Apple fogzone.

Comment Re: My disclosure (Score 1) 445

I think I know why the Mac is foundering. All the most slavish and loopy people who used to worship the Mac have switched over to Tesla.

The cultishness is amazing. With Apple you were a 'hater' who likes 'IBM' computers. With Tesla, you're a 'shorter.' An Emmanuel Goldstein projected up on the screen for the 2 minute hate.

Comment Re: Skewed framing (Score 1) 445

For awhile I worked for a company that had one division that was a tier 1 supplier to General Motors. A new CEO of the overall company was put into place, and he discovered the whole kickback scheme that the head of Automotive was engaging in with GM. Head of Automotive got canned. The rest of Automotive 'flipped out' because that was apparently how you do business with GM.

I'm so glad I don't work there anymore. My job was in a test lab evaluating parts for, yes, GM, and it really didn't seem like honest work. Totally irrelevant tests to be 'by the book' and hiding glaring flaws. At least none were safety issues, thank goodness.

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