> Just the idea that a Danish web consultant could hack together something that became popular and which then allowed him to literally retire and become a racing driver before he hit 30 should inspire us all.
While being successful in all those aspects, DHH is still very active in the development of the framework. He is currently also the CTO at Basecamp. Not really what I would consider being retired.
Also he didn't get rich at least to begin with off Rails as such, which is free open source but off Basecamp which as he is fond of pointing out charges customers money in the old fashioned way. (As opposed to raising VC.)
I have a vague memory of reading an article by him shortly after he got the investment from Jeff Bezos when he spoke in terms of being "retired" (sadly ungoogleable now because "david heinmeyer hansson retired" just gives lots of hits for motor-racing). Of course things change, and he is definitely working now, although his working life seems to consist of very well paid, powerful, interesting and part-time positions, so I think the point stands :)
Am i the only one thinking that Steve Jobs would have refused most of the things that were introduced this morning? Apple sure has changed over the years.
Maybe not. Does it matter? Steve Jobs, brilliant though he was, has been dead for a while now, and shows every indication of staying that way into the indefinite future. While that doesn't necessarily mean he has been unable to stay up on the last few years' worth of change and innovation in the mobile space, it does mean that whatever unique insights he's been able to derive from same are not in a place where they can do Apple's designers and engineers much good.
Steve was fantastic at saying no. He said no to the app store multiple times. He said no to almost everything that ended up being Apple staples. I'm not sure it's fair to give him so much credit.
Yeah, I don't think that all that junk added to Messages would have been added under Steve Jobs. Not that I think that's a bad thing, but it's definitely a notable departure away from clean and simple and minimal to something that is much, much more complicated and glitzy.
Why build a first party messaging app if most people aren't going to use it? For people who just want to send plain text messages the UI is pretty much identical. Text box, type, send.
Did you miss the part where they indicated that Messages was the most used app on iOS? Why would they abandon that experience for their customers and leave it up to a 3rd party to control?
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