Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Steve, 1999, in reply to James George,
matching their keyboard to the drapes
not a metaphor?
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Hard News: Steve, 1999, in reply to Russell Brown,
One of the best Macs ever. I sold mine to Chris Bourke, who used it to write his Crowded House book.
However I seriously don't recommend trying to use one to lay out a photo-intensive house of the year magazine. Not a fond memory.
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Hard News: Steve, 1999, in reply to Peter Darlington,
And the market works
Apple also had a lot to learn about the business side of their industry from Microsoft and others.
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Hard News: Steve, 1999, in reply to Russell Brown,
Apple's industry design process has always started deeper than that
Jobs insisted that design was deeper than the product's skin. Mind you, the degree of control that sometimes involves has annoyed legions.
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Hard News: 2011: The Year Of What?, in reply to Paul Campbell,
could have been worse #zune
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Hard News: Steve, 1999, in reply to Paul Campbell,
The one thing that Apple does and everyone is really jealous of is simply "high gross margins" they sell stuff at higher prices
A triumph of leading with design and having faith that people wiill pay for a better product experience. Jobs talked about taking the time to honour the design process properly, which hardly any of Apple's competitors did.
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Hard News: Steve, 1999, in reply to Paul Campbell,
real graphical displays
Hard to credit how revolutionary that was until you see the crowd response during the original Macintosh launch - and realise that the pixelly big type scrolling across the screen is what they're raving about. Sure helps if you remember what monochrome command line interfaces were like; must mystify the young just like the wifi demo in Russell's story.
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Hard News: 2011: The Year Of What?, in reply to Paul Campbell,
I'll let you have that one :)
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Hard News: 2011: The Year Of What?, in reply to Paul Campbell,
to be fair the "i" more likely stands for "a vowel different from 'e' just to make us different"
no.
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Joe Wylie,
any representation on your part can be handily dismissed as "playing politics"
unless it is done properly - say, by a well-briefed party leader or senior MP as part of a coherent and planned campaign