Re: Cocoa's Popularity
Re: Cocoa's Popularity
- Subject: Re: Cocoa's Popularity
- From: Mike <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 01:07:17 -0800
I don't have a problem with the CEO or manager being tough on
employees. I think it's great. I have been the same way with a lot of
people i managed in the past. And i have been hated for it. But it
gets the job done. Jobs has done a wonderful job turning the company
and the hardware side of things around. No doubt about it. I worked
at Apple in 1996-1997 and was there in the darkest days of the
company - when 7000 people were laid off. It was terrible. Steve
saved Apple, no doubt about it.
What i have trouble with is the CEO being hard on *the customers*. OS
X has great potential if it is refined a bit. But in it's current
incarnation in many ways, it's a step *backwards* from the Classic
MacOS. Even many of the mac's original software engineers have said
so.
If Apple "fixes" the problems with OS X, and let's hope it will, the
sky's the limit.
-m
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I can't help feeling that Steve's attitudes are being propagated
throughout the company. In fact, an Apple employee who shall remain
nameless described the company as "Stalinist" WRT how it's changed
since Steve came back to the helm.
A few other adjectives would better apply: "profitable", "extant",
"respected".
Remember when every time Apple was mentioned in the press, it was
prefixed with "Struggling computer maker"? I thought Apple had
maybe renamed itself... I also remember the pre-Steve years, every
day wondering not *when* my favorite company was going to be
dismembered, but by whom. Jobs took a company that was in ruins,
with vultures and journalists circling overhead, and turned it
around 1800. Yes, the person who did that would have had to have
been both tough and smart.
However, the author of this remark also doesn't remember his or her
history, either. Stalin was an absolute butcher who killed
*millions* of his own people during an extended reign of terror that
people in the US can't even imagine. Don't compare a tough
entrepreneur (a vegetarian, as I recall!) with Stalin, please!
Michael
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