Gassée is a former Apple exec who led the Mac team
Wasn't he fired from Apple?
edit: A quick wiki lookup indicates that he was "forced out" at Apple. The article also reminded me of the issues he had when Apple made some changes to Macs in the late 90's that made it difficult to dual-boot BeOS which caused difficulties for Gassée (nevermind the whole issue of Amelio choosing to acuire NeXT over Be).
I think there is just as much reason for Gassée to hold a grudge against Apple as to be "invested" in Apple.
(of course his argument may be wrong/right on other grounds, but I don't think it's certain that any allegiance to Apple really plays into the argument at this point)
I'm sure he left for "personal reasons" :-) But more seriously yes he left in 1990 per Wikipedia. I disliked his marketing claims of 'firsts' for Apple things that were shipping on the Amiga but certainly respected what he tried to achieve with BeOS.
Well, either way you look at it, it's hard to imagine that Gassée is unbiased and objective. That doesn't mean he's wrong, but it does mean that you need to read it differently. Rather than accept the text as objective reality, you should view it as a perspective on reality that a former Apple executive who was forced to resign is willing to say publicly about Apple's relationship to the firing of Steven Sinofsky at Microsoft (while conveniently not mentioning Apple's firing of Scott Forstall). That is an incredibly shaky foundation to build an opinion on, is it not?
I have yet to encounter an unbiased and objective commentator. I think he's wrong about this, but not because of his history with Apple. Actually I think your whole mindset here is totally backwards. You don't need a reason to not listen to someone on some topic, you just need to not have a reason to listen to them. I don't know why we should think Gassee has any particular insight into Microsoft today.
@meanJim: You've been hall-banned for almost a year... Just thought you need to know!
> meanJim 7 minutes ago | link [dead] [-] [collapse whole thread]
> He gives a quick little mention "We’ll give a quick but deep hat tip to its ferocious and now deposed champion, Scott Forstall, and leave the discussion of his own exit for a future Monday Note."
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Gassée is a former Apple exec who led the Mac team
Wasn't he fired from Apple?
edit: A quick wiki lookup indicates that he was "forced out" at Apple. The article also reminded me of the issues he had when Apple made some changes to Macs in the late 90's that made it difficult to dual-boot BeOS which caused difficulties for Gassée (nevermind the whole issue of Amelio choosing to acuire NeXT over Be).
I think there is just as much reason for Gassée to hold a grudge against Apple as to be "invested" in Apple.
(of course his argument may be wrong/right on other grounds, but I don't think it's certain that any allegiance to Apple really plays into the argument at this point)
I'm sure he left for "personal reasons" :-) But more seriously yes he left in 1990 per Wikipedia. I disliked his marketing claims of 'firsts' for Apple things that were shipping on the Amiga but certainly respected what he tried to achieve with BeOS.
Well, either way you look at it, it's hard to imagine that Gassée is unbiased and objective. That doesn't mean he's wrong, but it does mean that you need to read it differently. Rather than accept the text as objective reality, you should view it as a perspective on reality that a former Apple executive who was forced to resign is willing to say publicly about Apple's relationship to the firing of Steven Sinofsky at Microsoft (while conveniently not mentioning Apple's firing of Scott Forstall). That is an incredibly shaky foundation to build an opinion on, is it not?
I have yet to encounter an unbiased and objective commentator. I think he's wrong about this, but not because of his history with Apple. Actually I think your whole mindset here is totally backwards. You don't need a reason to not listen to someone on some topic, you just need to not have a reason to listen to them. I don't know why we should think Gassee has any particular insight into Microsoft today.
@meanJim: You've been hall-banned for almost a year... Just thought you need to know!
> meanJim 7 minutes ago | link [dead] [-] [collapse whole thread]
> He gives a quick little mention "We’ll give a quick but deep hat tip to its ferocious and now deposed champion, Scott Forstall, and leave the discussion of his own exit for a future Monday Note."