“As predicted, Apple now worth more than Google” and other links…
Valleywag.com: “…we drew scathing remarks from the commenters. One called it ‘the dumbest thing you’ve ever written.’ But the iPhone is an even bigger hit than the most fervent Macheads might have predicted.”
Dave Winer in July 2008 on Apple
Scripting News for 7/16/2008: “Somehow for some reason buying into the Apple culture has been something I’ve resisted, where some people embrace. I won’t wait in a line, or oooh and ahhh at a Stevenote. I just don’t like the smarmy marketing attitude of Apple, he’s kind of like the teacher’s pet in music class, pretending that he’s a connoisseur — I see flaws and bugs everywhere. Fix the bugs and STFU about how great the product is. Sorry. I want to use Apple’s products the same way I use a Canon camera, as a product I respect, but if they ever start screwing around the way Apple does, I’d switch to a Nikon or whatever. Problem is there is no Nikon or whatever in PCs and iPods. All the other products suck. Hugely. Apple’s just suck a bit less. Not a huge accomplishment for an industry, imho.” Bashing Apple might be an “old” subject but at least it’s a change of subject off the Twitter bandwagon.
“Dealing With Bad Apples”
Jeff Atwood: “How do we identify problem personnel? It’s not difficult as you might think. I had a friend of mine once describe someone on his team as—and this is a direct quote—“a cancer”. At the point which you, or anyone else on your team, are using words like cancer to describe a teammate, you have a serious project pathology. You don’t have to be friends with everyone on your team, although it certainly helps, but a level of basic personal and professional respect is mandatory for any team to function normally.”
My problem with Jeff’s article is that he does not consider—not even in passing—that there can problem personnel working on the Death Star—a team building a weapon to blow up entire planets. You would hope that someone on that team would be a cancer to the Sith. I don’t work for the team who built the Washington Mutual Cards website, but I can guarantee Jeff that I would be the “cancer” constantly complaining about why password length is damn short on this site. I don’t work for the team at Cingular/AT&T that disabled the ability to delete a message while it is playing “accidentally” gouging millions of minutes from millions of customers. I don’t work for the team at Apple with the snooty and secret explanation as to why cut/copy and paste is not available on the iPhone. I can go on and on about this. In fact, my article from 2000 “An IT Fundamentalist Speaks” goes on and on about this…
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