Daring FireballSteve Jobs in 2007, on Apple’s Pursuit of PC Market Share: ‘We Just Can’t Ship Junk’
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/03/05/steve-jobs-we-just-cant-ship-junk
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/03/05/steve-jobs-we-just-cant-ship-junk
Thomas Brand@daringfireball I was waiting for @gruber to link to this.
Dr. Juande Santander-Vela@daringfireball «Steve Jobs would have loved the MacBook Neo. Everything about it, right down to the fact that Apple is responsible for the silicon.»
And he would have hated Tahoe with a passion. The MobileMe team must be imagining what kind of roasting Jobs would have for the team responsible for Tahoe.
dmitriid> Steve Jobs would have loved the MacBook Neo. Everything about it, right down to the fact that
it ships with two USB ports one of which is an unlabeled USB 2.0 in 2026, 18 years after the introduction of USB 3.0.
And that it ships with no TouchID
Delric@dmitriid @daringfireball Which doesn’t negate his point whatsoever. I know you’re not very familiar with Apple, but Jobs didn’t like expansion slots, either. The DIY flexibility you’re looking for is a different emphasis than the appliance computing emphasis.
@dmitriid @daringfireball and if you want a better understanding of the type of computer Jobs and Raskin set out to make, it’s outlined very clearly by Raskin here:
https://web.stanford.edu/dept/SUL/sites/mac/primary/docs/bom/anthrophilic.html
Oh, I remember this now. Thank you for linking the articles!
I'm thinking that Jobs probably would insist on either one port or two identical ports. And require that all models have TouchID.
But that's pure speculation of course.
Darcy Kishida@daringfireball SO miss Mr. Jobs . . .
@daringfireball Fusion Drive was junk, shipped a year after Jobs. Sigh
Peter N Lewis@daringfireball “Steve Jobs would have loved the MacBook Neo” - right up until he turned it on…
Ian WilliamsonIan Williamson (@[email protected])
People keep pulling out the Steve Jobs quote “We don't know how to make a $500 computer that's not a piece of junk” but he said that in 2008. The $500 MacBook Neo (with educational discount) is equivalent to around $330 in 2008 dollars! Even without the educational discount that’s still sub €400!