Re:What was it like to be a software engineer at NeXT?
by tobr on Monday July 23, 2018 @04:24AM
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It's an unreliable keyboard, but I'm not sure it's worse than e.g. the hockey puck mouse, the G4 Cube or "antennagate".
Re:What was it like to be a software engineer at NeXT?
by scruffyherder on Monday July 23, 2018 @08:10AM
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Hockey puck was something people could (and did) replace. Especially if you wanted 2 mice buttons for OS X.
G4 cube at least worked, although it was far too expensive. No doubt Steve was wanting another cube and it was purely "art".
Re:What was it like to be a software engineer at NeXT?
by scarface74 on Monday July 23, 2018 @09:09AM
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AntennaGate was way overblown. The GSM iPhone 4 was sold for four years without a redesign. The unreliable keyboard - yeah that's a real issue.
Re:What was it like to be a software engineer at NeXT?
by enitihas on Monday July 23, 2018 @05:12AM
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Well, he would say that the users are using them wrong. Precedent: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2010/jun/25/ipho...
It's well known that Jobs wasn't perfect, but he did have vision and an amazing capability to develop and sell products.
I wonder what he'd say to the current MacBook team for example? Broken keyboard and problems with overheating?
Apple is seriously lacking vision these days and it shows. This time Steve is not around to save them like he did after NeXT.