design

Well it was almost two years ago I wrote about waiting for the Apple phone. (right here) Now it's announced, and the furor has subsided, so let's see how good my predictions were.

I often like to complain about Windows. As a longtime Apple programmer I can't help it. Growing up and growing old with this industry I've just seen too many ripoffs perpetrated by Redmond. I think that corporations get an imprint from their founders, and that imprint, those patterns of working and behaving stay with them for a long time. Many times they persist even after the founders have long since left the scene.