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Re:Teaching Apple Cyberdog 1.0 new tricks (featuring OpenDoc) by tambourine_man on Sunday October 15, 2023 @08:49PM (#37894802)
The famous rant that Jobs responds to was regarding OpenDoc vs Java.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oeqPrUmVz-o

It was a different world, one that the CEO of Apple would respond to any question whatsoever, an open mic in a small theater.

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Re:Teaching Apple Cyberdog 1.0 new tricks (featuring OpenDoc) by throwaway45467 on Sunday October 15, 2023 @08:55PM (#37894828)
Minor correction —- Jobs was a living legend at that point, but wasn’t CEO again, yet.

Not sure that it was a different world in the way you mean. Back then, as today, leaders of leading tech giants wouldn’t be in that setting taking questions from developers. It was a different Apple; one whose prospect of survival was in question, which needed developers not to abandon the platform, and needed employees not to abandon the company.

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Re:Teaching Apple Cyberdog 1.0 new tricks (featuring OpenDoc) by tambourine_man on Sunday October 15, 2023 @09:16PM (#37894934)
You’re right, not even iCEO yet.

But it was certainly a different Apple. Can you imagine Cook, Federighi or Ternus on a theater taking any random question? I’d love that, but it’s not going to happen.

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