Re:Macintosh Startup Sound History [video]
by reaperducer on Friday June 15, 2018 @02:46PM
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I agree, new macs are moving toward all polish and no humanity, just a clean sterile machine.
There's a reason for that. Tim Cook is a bean counter, not a technologist, and not an artist.
Steve Jobs was a technologist, and a wannabe artist.
"The goal was never to beat the competition, or to make a lot of money; it was to do the greatest thing possible, or even a little greater. Steve often reinforced the artistic theme; for example, he took the entire team on a field trip in the spring of 1982 to the Louis Comfort Tiffany museum, because Tiffany was an artist who learned how to mass produce his work."
There's a reason for that. Tim Cook is a bean counter, not a technologist, and not an artist.
Steve Jobs was a technologist, and a wannabe artist.
"The goal was never to beat the competition, or to make a lot of money; it was to do the greatest thing possible, or even a little greater. Steve often reinforced the artistic theme; for example, he took the entire team on a field trip in the spring of 1982 to the Louis Comfort Tiffany museum, because Tiffany was an artist who learned how to mass produce his work."
Source: https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...