Month: March 2021

The reality distortion field and Mac OS X

The reality distortion field and Mac OS X

I’m one of the few people that don’t believe in the Steve Jobs reality distortion field. While I believe there is some magic involved, there are three factors at play:

  • Apple makes some really great products (and bad ones too)
  • People are cynical about big companies and believe that if
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When would Mac OS X ship?

When would Mac OS X ship?

In a normal company, milestones have dates assigned to them and ship dates are public knowledge, at least internally.

Not so at Apple. We can guess the ship date based on when our planned completion date is. But this is software. It’s perennially late, so you just never know.

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