Comment by bsenftner
3 months ago
Fuck man, I worked on the original Mac OS back in '83, when all the work was in assembly. Know what happened? Apple happened. That company is fucked up something supreme. The entire premise behind that original graphical UI was never user experience, it was 'the users are idiots, we have to control them'.
We know each and every person who worked on the Mac because of projects like folklore.org. Which one are you?
Besides the sibling comments, if you read books like "Steve Jobs & the Next Big Thing", this point of view is quite detailed there.
Younger readers will find out that modern Apple attitude is quite similar to the early years of the Macintosh being sold to universities.
The be nice and think different phase was only during the time they were about to close doors.
as his user profile indicates: Blake Senftner. I don't see him mentioned on folklore.org, but that doesn't mean he didn't participate in some way.
https://www.quora.com/profile/Blake-Senftner
> Original Macintosh Beta Tester and Mac 3rd Party Developer (‘83-’85)
I was a teen game developer with my own games in Sears & K Mart nationwide for the US, for the Vic-20 and the C-64, and was invited as a representative of the independent games industry. When my involvement was ending, Apple then told me they changed their mind and was not going to support independent games for the Mac at all. But offered to waive that restriction if I paid them $30K and gave them full editorial control over what I published. Nope.
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He worked on a beta as part of the Apple Professional Developer's Program at Harvard.