Re: Apple lion/xcode (2 cents)
Re: Apple lion/xcode (2 cents)
- Subject: Re: Apple lion/xcode (2 cents)
- From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:19:47 -0700
On Mar 13, 2012, at 10:44 AM, Alexandra Beebe wrote: Questions are is there anyone on the list that actually works for apple?
Yes, there are several Apple employees on the list, such as Joar and Greg. If you like you can search the list archives for @apple.com emails. There are probably a lot more that lurk, because a very easy way to get in trouble at Apple is to say the wrong thing in a public forum (it happened to me many times.) Is there anyone that works for apple that can make decisions?
On the list? Probably not. Can we not start a dialog with a decision maker and try to get the issues resolved instead of flooding my inbox with fighting and complaining. Or is everyone wasting there time because there are no decision makers on the list?
Apple (and I speak as someone who worked there for 15 years) is not very good at listening to outsiders. It’s a blessing and a curse — it makes them capable of wild innovation (“If I’d asked people what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse” —Fake Henry Ford) but it means that when they make mistakes it can be very hard to convince them to change.
I’ve been around long enough to see many cycles of complaints about changes, all the way back to people screaming about System 7 and how the colors were garish and you couldn’t turn off MultiFinder and it needed an exorbitant 2MB of RAM.
Personally I think Xcode 4 is a big step forward, and its current bugginess is the kind of thing that happens after major rewrites like this. I’m sure it’ll get better. People yelling on mailing lists isn’t going to fix anything, though.
—Jens |
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