Hi Jeff, see below... On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Jeff Reynolds <j...@siphonophore.com>wrote:
> I agree with Kevin, luck is a part of it, but Jobs was able to create his > own luck by both sheer will and also knowing the true basics of design as > the points to start from applying that fantastic will. > BINGO. Why don't more companies understand this as well? Design can be a huge differentiator in just about any industry. > I had to laugh at Kevin's mention of the demos. i saw his second public > demo of the next cube while a grad student at UC Berkeley. I went to see > Jobs and the cube but never even thought i would ever even think about > wanting one -- at $10K, that was a fortune to me at the time. I remember these demos. Michael Dell called and asked if I could get a NeXT cube for him (we did a bunch of work together in the early Dell days). I pulled some strings and got one for him-- but only after playing for hours with it and the 'gorgeous' 4 bit grayscale interface. That interface 'affected' the future of GUID's for sometime. The design was also quite well done-- it was by frog design. I also remembering purchasing one of the very first Mac128's and dragging it into Compaq, back when there were only 50 people there. Rod Canion, a co-founder, couldn't understand why I would drag a Mac to work when there were plenty of 'really fine' Compaq portable luggables available. As a design professor of mine used to say, "If you don't see it, I can't teach it to you!" It's nice to see RunRev place such an emphasis on design in their products. Bravo. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
