I wonder what Steve would think of the time it takes to apply minor OS upgrades to iPhone and Mac!
Mine apply overnight while I sleep. As long as they don’t mess with my alarm or brick try device, the time doesn’t matter.
Steve wants us to make the Macintosh boot faster
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Re: Steve wants us to make the Macintosh boot faster
#32Re: Steve wants us to make the Macintosh boot faster
#33If there's one thing that I think was revolutionary about Jobs, it was his obsession with quality and user experience. You simply don't find that quality in a lot of tech CEOs. Jobs was willing to burn a load of developer time doing performance tuning. Most other CEOs then and today had an attitude that was more along the line of "We'll just buy more/faster hardware. It's a waste of time to make things faster". A lot…
I think .NET is one of the few projects Microsoft maintains that I admire that feel like they care a lot about quality, you can tell the people working on it are focused on performance and making sure its really well rounded. I would argue that .NET is Microsoft's greatest achievement / work of all time.
.NET has viable competitors. Windows, due to its monopoly, dominates the PC world no matter how bad it is.
Re: Steve wants us to make the Macintosh boot faster
#34Pratchett makes this same point (or has a golem make it for him) in Going Postal.
Re: Steve wants us to make the Macintosh boot faster
#35In the same vein many years later: -- After the original iPad was released, Steve Jobs held a meeting with the MacBook engineering team and demonstrated the difference in wake speed. He woke up a current MacBook (with an Intel chip), which took a few seconds. He then instantly woke up the iPad (with an Apple A-series chip) by pressing the home/power button on and off rapidly. Jobs told the team, "I want you to make t…
I'm confused, doesn't it literally exist now (post-Jobs) that we have Apple silicon on the Mac?
"this" meaning that level of care, not the wake-up speed
Re: Steve wants us to make the Macintosh boot faster
#36In the same vein many years later: -- After the original iPad was released, Steve Jobs held a meeting with the MacBook engineering team and demonstrated the difference in wake speed. He woke up a current MacBook (with an Intel chip), which took a few seconds. He then instantly woke up the iPad (with an Apple A-series chip) by pressing the home/power button on and off rapidly. Jobs told the team, "I want you to make t…
I'm confused, doesn't it literally exist now (post-Jobs) that we have Apple silicon on the Mac?
They mean «this kind of demand/leadership» no longer exists. Not the particular feature of the wake up time.
Re: Steve wants us to make the Macintosh boot faster
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
It also didn't always work. At no point did the MacBook boot nearly as instantly as an iPad. That said, Jobs' obsession with UX was a powerful driving force and your point stands.
Wake from sleep, not boot. I have a MacBook sitting in front of me and I just tested it: It wakes from sleep pretty much instantly.
Was that a hardware or a software improvement?
My Dell laptop running Ubuntu wakes from sleep pretty much instantly.
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#38That's actually the standard model for evaluating transport projects: aggregating small time savings across millions of people.
You basically take those millions of saved hours and multiply them by a government-standard 'value of time' (roughly £15/hr in the UK). That usually makes up the bulk of the benefits, though they also price in things like safety (a prevented death is worth ~£2m), carbon, noise, etc.
IIRC, if you hit a Benefit-Cost Ratio of 2.0 or higher, the project is considered 'high value' and has a good shot at getting executed.
Re: Steve wants us to make the Macintosh boot faster
#39If there's one thing that I think was revolutionary about Jobs, it was his obsession with quality and user experience. You simply don't find that quality in a lot of tech CEOs. Jobs was willing to burn a load of developer time doing performance tuning. Most other CEOs then and today had an attitude that was more along the line of "We'll just buy more/faster hardware. It's a waste of time to make things faster". A lot…
But does it matter? Eventually a bean counter will be in charge of the legacy you built up with this painstakingly acquired good UX and high quality, and take less than a decade to make most of what you spent your life fighting, the new reality.
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Re: Steve wants us to make the Macintosh boot faster
#40If there's one thing that I think was revolutionary about Jobs, it was his obsession with quality and user experience. You simply don't find that quality in a lot of tech CEOs. Jobs was willing to burn a load of developer time doing performance tuning. Most other CEOs then and today had an attitude that was more along the line of "We'll just buy more/faster hardware. It's a waste of time to make things faster". A lot…
Agreed. The "Apple Vision Pro" would have (rightfully so) never been released under Steve Jobs.