Has Steve an ego problem?
Has Steve an ego problem?
Sunday, July 15, 2001<
- In the latest edition of Brand eins, there is an article about 7 things to remember when you plan a revolution. One of the 7 things is "Stay away from the media". The argument is that the reality the media communicates is wrong in some fundamental ways.
So, is Mac OS X really a matter of Steve´s ego? Nat thinks so. I don´t. Steve is a business man. Mac OS X has only very little resemblance to what NeXTStep was all about. The thing about NeXTStep was not the UNIX kernel. It was the OO Framework. Cocoa. The fact that Steve actually backed off his plan to force everyone to rewrite their apps for Mac OS X and created Carbon (which is in fact a port of QuickTime from Windows to NeXTStep
) shows that his ego is not tied to products. I think Steve relies havily on other people in his judgement of products. In all but one regard: design. He may have a good eye for good design, but I bet that all technical decisions are based on other peoples calls.
- Testimonial: Powermac G4 Cubes are great. I´ve three of them running 24/7 as servers, even at 35 Celsius. No glitches yet, no heat related shut downs as reported everywhere. The only problem: in Mac OS X you can´t turn off the behaviour that the machine goes to sleep when you accidentally touch the power button.
- A lot has changed. I will also return to the custom of posting great pictures to this site. Here is one from my trip to Seattle:
