Greg Joswiak replaces Phil Schiller as head of Apple marketing

Re:Greg Joswiak replaces Phil Schiller as head of Apple mark... by doomlaser on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @05:14PM (#24054565)

To that point, QuickDraw is still shipping in MacOS although it's officially deprecated. Pretty impressive for an API that began life in 1979. I will dock it for never supporting more than a 1-bit transparency mask, but Atkinson had left Apple before that became important. I think he quit around the time Jobs was first fired.

He made HyperCard on his own and licensed it to Apple for cash, though he stipulated that they had to release it for free. Unfortunately, HyperCard's biggest legacy is only Myst, and the Tim Berners Lee shout-out.

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Re:Greg Joswiak replaces Phil Schiller as head of Apple mark... by CydeWeys on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @06:23PM (#24055143)

HyperCard has a much bigger legacy than Myst: it inspired how Web browsers work, including the overall navigation look and feel, JavaScript, even the hand pointer! It's one of those super influential things that most people don't know about.

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Re:Greg Joswiak replaces Phil Schiller as head of Apple mark... by JKCalhoun on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @06:59PM (#24055415)

Never mind all the people who started out their programming careers tinkering with Hypercard.

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Re:Greg Joswiak replaces Phil Schiller as head of Apple mark... by CydeWeys on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @10:35AM (#24061231)

Guilty as charged. HyperCard was a super fun environment to play around in and really easy to make simple games in. It was great for luring people deeper into programming.

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Re:Greg Joswiak replaces Phil Schiller as head of Apple mark... by Aloha on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @12:15PM (#24062466)

I think it was removed in 10.15, as its tied to Carbon.

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