Comment by philistine

3 months ago

We know each and every person who worked on the Mac because of projects like folklore.org. Which one are you?

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pjmlp  3 months ago

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.

AceJohnny2  3 months ago

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.

  • bsenftner  3 months ago

    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.

    • entropicdrifter  3 months ago

      It's wild how fast Apple pivoted from Woz just wanting to make a PC anyone could write and play their own video games on to "Nah we want full control of every last bit, fuck your indie games".

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