Daring FireballMar 5
Steve 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
Steve Jobs in 2007, on Apple’s Pursuit of PC Market Share: ‘We Just Can’t Ship Junk’

Link to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U37Ds3RvyoM

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Show threaddmitriid

@daringfireball

> 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

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Show threadDelricMar 6

@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.

https://www.folklore.org/Diagnostic_Port.html

Folklore.org: Diagnostic Port

Show threadDelricMar 6

@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

Design Considerations for an Anthropophilic Computer

Show threaddmitriidMar 6

@delric @daringfireball

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.