Comments on: I was an Apple Mac kid https://markstaples.com/2011/10/07/i-was-an-apple-mac-kid/ Software, research, and leadership Mon, 10 Oct 2011 01:46:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 By: Mark https://markstaples.com/2011/10/07/i-was-an-apple-mac-kid/#comment-70 Mon, 10 Oct 2011 01:46:45 +0000 http://www.markstaples.com/?p=223#comment-70 In reply to Michael Norrish.

Maybe Steve did have some partial change-of-heart. Guy Kawasaki says (point 7) that initially for the iPhone, “Apps, Steve decreed, were a bad thing because you never know what they could be doing to your phone.”. Guy says Steve changed his mind on that. But i think that’s the baseline Apple attitude – protect the integrity of the platform by closely controlling what developers can do.

]]> By: Mark https://markstaples.com/2011/10/07/i-was-an-apple-mac-kid/#comment-69 Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:17:43 +0000 http://www.markstaples.com/?p=223#comment-69 Apple’s maniacal control of the platform (and the app market) can simplify some technical and marketing problems for developers. But given the pain I’ve heard of from developers who have tried to get their apps past the gate-keepers, I think Apple has succeeded in spite of their treatment of developers!
I think Woz was the real hero behind the Apple II – the Mac is Jobsian.

]]> By: Michael Norrish https://markstaples.com/2011/10/07/i-was-an-apple-mac-kid/#comment-68 Fri, 07 Oct 2011 09:14:01 +0000 http://www.markstaples.com/?p=223#comment-68 Yet they’ve also done very well out of their iPhone/iPad app store; something that is entirely dependent on the desire of people to write for their platforms. I don’t know if this is despite Apple making life difficult, or whether they’ve managed to have a real change of heart.

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