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What’s dishonest about wanting a quicker boot time?
Saying it "saves lives"?
That'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…
What companies do this CBA? Deloitte?
Deloitte, KPMG, etc are usually more involved in writing the financial case (how to fund the project).
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I will never claim Jobs was a good neighbor or a Mr. Rogers type. Or even a fun person to work for. But I don’t look up to him for that. Same way I don’t look up to Tiger Woods for who he is as a husband, or Picasso for… well, also poor behavior with women. I want to play for Michael Jordan to be with the best and to be challenged to be my best. Sometimes the thing that makes people excellent in one facet of their li…
I think you're setting up a false choice, but maybe we'll just have to agree to disagree then, because I absolutely, 100% will not be nor work with assholes to accomplish something. The tech world is FULL of genuine nice people who has acomplished remarkable things, and while I do respect people like jobs for what he accomplished, I do not let them skate for the mean or hurtful things they have done.
If 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…
Hm. The one-button mouse? That was part of the design impact - for user experience, it wasn't much of a win. Likewise the faulty power cords and noisy power supplies (no choke on the power cable, because it looks ugly!) How about the soldered-down components and device cases with special screws to keep users from ever opening them? That was not 'for the user', that was more 'walled garden'. In fact, I'm not sure wher…
And then ending with the sanctimonious line about selling. Like you eat off of selling nothing. Go screw in whatever you like just understand your critique comes across as little more than entitled griping against a majority. You're the people he fought against the entire time, people obsessed with their own personal agenda/minutia with no understanding of the overarching mission or who the customer is. This video comes to mind https://youtu.be/oeqPrUmVz-o
Design without an audience in mind is not design. Don't dismiss the work simply because you're not the audience.
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.
https://www.apple.com/environment/
LOL
That'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…
This reminds me of a story I heard about a bus driver who would always pull away from the stop right on schedule even if a regular rider was running up. His calculation was the 30 seconds spent waiting for one rider was an aggregate of many minutes lost by the riders who were on time for their stops. What looked cruel to one was a kindness to many.
A bus can easily carry 50 passengers. 30 seconds times that many is 25 minutes. That's a lot of aggregate time wasted indeed.
Also assuming this 30 seconds delay is not compensated later, it can influence significantly more people than the bus capacity. And if someone misses a connection because of it that's even more time wasted.
I am not sure Jobs was always a great boss, but if that conversation is somewhat true, it would have completely worked for me: - Big boss doesn't just yell at the product manager who then yells at the team leads who then calls "all hands" and unloads her stress on the team - Instead big boss explains his line of thinking and adding some nape of the napkin projections why this improvement actually matters. You might g…
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Jobs was one of the original product managers. He brought the customer perspective right into engineering. Unlike a lot of CEOs, he was willing to do what most product managers aren’t: make hard trade off decisions. He cut losing product lines, made big bets (killing floppy disks) and was deeply technical… I wish my CEO had the guts to make these calls. (More importantly, when he does, I want him to be right!)
>> He cut losing product lines, made big bets (killing floppy disks) and was deeply technical… What history have you been reading? Sure we can find examples of each of these by I can also give you counter examples - big ones - off the top of my head. 1. Did his absolute best (but failed) to cut the Apple II product line, even though it was the only money maker for the company, to support several losing prduct lines.…
That'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…
The value of saving a human life is a huge factor in civil engineering and varies pretty widely in the western world. IIRC it's over 10m USD in the us currently, but only about 6m USD in most of the EU.