Comment by JKCalhoun
7 hours ago
And yet when Jobs returned to Apple he blew up ATG (the Advanced Technology Group) that gave us Quicktime, etc. He also shutdown Apple's research library (and gave all the books to Stanford, I believe).
He seemed to have little patience for "scientists" — preferred engineers that shipped shit.
I think that at best he saw research as expensive, at worst he saw it as elitist.
"real artists ship" - Jobs
Wasn't Apple burning money when he joined?
And yet, he went to Xerox PARC and copied their research.
He also didn’t seem to have an issue borrowing Unix, which obviously has a rich history of research and academia.
Indeed, however many people are too young to remember that he looked down into UNIX, as a bunch of greybeards without taste.
"Why We Have to Make UNIX Invisible."
https://www.usenix.org/blog/vault-steve-jobs-keynotes-1987-u...
"That time I had Steve Jobs keynote at Unix Expo"
> They said a Unix weenie was code for software engineers who hated what we were doing to Unix (the operating system we licensed)—putting a graphical user interface on it to dumb it down for grandmothers. They heckled Steve about his efforts to destroy it. His nightmare would be to speak to a crowd of them.
From https://web.archive.org/web/20180628214613/https://www.cake....
The value proposition NeXT found on UNIX, was the same as Microsoft (after they let go of Xenix, thanks to MS-DOS golden goose deal with IBM), a means to an end, the market of companies and universities that wanted something with UNIX in the box.
"NeXT marketing strategy video (1991)"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRBIH0CA7ZU
Note that he wasn't at Apple when A/UX and MkLinux efforts took place.