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Friday, September 12, 2003

Ex-Apple employee: Apple a "massive failure"
In an Apple Computer History Weblog posting, ex-Apple executive Michael Mace says that Apple, as a whole, was a "massive failure" because the company's goal was "to transform the world by setting people free from bad computer design and stifling corporate dictates," he writes. "'The Computer for the Rest of Us,' we promised. Today 'the rest of us' are a tiny personal computing clique. The company is the eccentric elderly uncle of the computer industry -- still interesting, still beloved, but no longer truly powerful. No longer dangerous." Mace argues, correctly, that while Apple pioneered the GUI on PCs, it stopped innovating after that and has been plying the same old GUI ever since. I've said this time and again about Mac OS X: It's pretty, but it's the same old desktop metaphor (Windows XP, meanwhile, offers true GUI innovation with its task-based GUI, but Mace curiously doesn't acknowledge that). The dispicable Wired Magazine has a write-up about the posting, and they talked to Mace about it. "It's not like [the people at Apple] were losers," he said. "But all together, as a group, they really had trouble getting stuff done. It's interesting that so many bright people got together and failed to succeed."

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