The MacinthropePretty sure Jobs would have killed this “futuristic” product by now. (Like he did with OpenDoc and Newton.) Sometimes being a CEO means knowing when to say “No”.
https://9to5mac.com/2026/04/23/john-ternus-explains-what-he-thinks-of-apple-vision-pro/
Jochen Wolters@macinthrope I never quite understood what the exact motivation was for Jobs to shut down OpenDoc. The fundamental concept of a shared canvas for different types of content with exchangeable editors and viewers for each content type always intrigued me. Compared to that concept, the established pattern of having different _applications_ for different content types feels simply like the computing stone age.
The “business publishing" package RagTime used the same paradigm, and it's mind-blowing.
@jochenwolters I think he saw people moving towards the web for sharing live data and “compound interactive documents”. OpenDoc was an interesting framework, but the paradigm was too forward looking and the UI was too messy (everything is a document, drag in stationary to create a frame, menus changing out from under you when clicking on an item, etc.).
Fabien@macinthrope Jobs killed newton and all because the company was dying. Current Apple money has so much money they’d be stupid to not try/keep riskier bets.