Parker OrtolaniMar 22
"We're the last people in this business who give a shit about making great computers.": https://parkerortolani.blog/2026/03/21/were-the-last-people-in.html
"We're the last people in this business who give a shit about making great computers."

I already shared this clip on X and Bluesky earlier today, but I wanted to say a little bit more about it. I think that this newly discovered footage of Steve Jobs congratulating Apple employees at an outdoor all-hands meeting at the Infinite Loop campus following MacWorld New York in 1999 is some of the most important that exists of him. It’s awfully rare footage, not just because it’s an internal meeting but because it shows a behind the scenes look at life at Apple in those early days of his return.

Show threadThomas Reed

@parkerortolani @talkingmoose I remember all the mismanagement and poor decisions at Apple in the last years before Steve Jobs came back. I actually started to think about what I would do for work if Apple went out of business. I knew Macintosh computers very well, but I couldn’t go work in IT for Windows machines, because I’d never used them. I will always be grateful to Steve Jobs for saving the company.

Unfortunately, I see a lot of mismanagement and poor decision making creeping back in these days. I worry about what will happen to Apple in the years ahead, and I’m thankful that my career no longer depends on Apple.

Mar 22 at 7:11pmWeb