▲ 663 ▼ [Opinion] Apple CEO Tim Cook's Legacy Is Dull Products And Spineless Capitulation (karlbode.com) submitted 1 month ago by GolfFoxtrotLima@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world 142 comments fedilink hide all child comments cross-posted from: https://lemmus.org/post/25140646
[–] JiveTurkey@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (2 children) Engineers made the OS good. Steve didn't do shit. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] obvs@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago Well that's not correct. Engineers are great at developing a product. But having someone at the end who's using the product and insisting on consistency because he's anal-retentive and a pain in the ass will mean the product is consistent with the evaluator's goals. macOS used to have a lot of underlying features that worked consistently no matter which app you were using, and Apple destroyed that. Either Jobs was having an effect, or it's a damned strange coincidence that the severe reduction in consistency in macOS started just at the point that he died. permalink fedilink source parent [–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago Yeah, Apple were doing so great with their engineers until 1997, and then Jobs came back and ruined things. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] obvs@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago Well that's not correct. Engineers are great at developing a product. But having someone at the end who's using the product and insisting on consistency because he's anal-retentive and a pain in the ass will mean the product is consistent with the evaluator's goals. macOS used to have a lot of underlying features that worked consistently no matter which app you were using, and Apple destroyed that. Either Jobs was having an effect, or it's a damned strange coincidence that the severe reduction in consistency in macOS started just at the point that he died. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago Yeah, Apple were doing so great with their engineers until 1997, and then Jobs came back and ruined things. permalink fedilink source parent