buzz.vox.com— "Buzz Andersen has written an emotional and truthful announcement of his departure from Apple." - http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/326/saying-goodbye-to-apple
Apr 20, 2007View in Crawl 4
I think everybody comes to the epiphany that this guy came upon, no matter what job you do or what company you work for. This is especially true if you are doing what you love to do. You WILL get jaded by work life and you can't avoid it, but most of us find ways to be content with it eventually.
My friend mom used to work for Apple when they were doing Apple II and she was in Apple II department, Apple went out and hire 100% new programers to create mac and start cutting funds for Apple II department. When Mac Deapart have picnic or party for their milestones Apple II team don't get invited and they were cut off and no programmer from Apple II programming team got promoted to the Mac. She was laid off soon after Mac came out and Apple were discontinue.
Your mom is giving you a biased viewpoint on this. I've read about that situation at the time and it seems that the Apple II and the Mac teams were both a little snotty toward each other. Each team had an executive or two who viewed them as favorites, but the Mac team had the benefit of being a favorite of Steve Jobs and we know how he is when he wants something a certain way. And as I understand it, the programming and skills needed for the Mac project were vastly different than those needed for the Apple II so it stands to reason that the Apple II group would be let go. In the end, the Mac team won out and the resources devoted to the Apple II were released. Companies do that kind of thing all the time. I'm sure your mother wasn't happy about it (rightly so) but I'm not so sure that this is all as insidious as you're making it out to be.
My take: the writing's a little wooden; the writer's a wee bit melodramatic. However, it sounds like he finally realized that what he wanted to do was make Macintosh software, not work for Apple.If that's the case then good luck for him. Large companies are not easy to be in as a visionary unless you have the ear of top management. If the vision he alludes to is worthwhile then it'll work out.That being said, we all suffer from ennui at points in our lives. Let's hope he didn't let that ennui get the best of him...
cvrefugeeApr 21, 2007
Did anybody else think this was a story about some guy who went from Mac to PC?
loudscreamerApr 21, 2007
change the background!!
allenuApr 21, 2007
I think everybody comes to the epiphany that this guy came upon, no matter what job you do or what company you work for. This is especially true if you are doing what you love to do. You WILL get jaded by work life and you can't avoid it, but most of us find ways to be content with it eventually.
zdigglerApr 22, 2007
My friend mom used to work for Apple when they were doing Apple II and she was in Apple II department, Apple went out and hire 100% new programers to create mac and start cutting funds for Apple II department. When Mac Deapart have picnic or party for their milestones Apple II team don't get invited and they were cut off and no programmer from Apple II programming team got promoted to the Mac. She was laid off soon after Mac came out and Apple were discontinue.
inkswampApr 22, 2007
Your mom is giving you a biased viewpoint on this. I've read about that situation at the time and it seems that the Apple II and the Mac teams were both a little snotty toward each other. Each team had an executive or two who viewed them as favorites, but the Mac team had the benefit of being a favorite of Steve Jobs and we know how he is when he wants something a certain way. And as I understand it, the programming and skills needed for the Mac project were vastly different than those needed for the Apple II so it stands to reason that the Apple II group would be let go. In the end, the Mac team won out and the resources devoted to the Apple II were released. Companies do that kind of thing all the time. I'm sure your mother wasn't happy about it (rightly so) but I'm not so sure that this is all as insidious as you're making it out to be.
Closed AccountApr 22, 2007
My take: the writing's a little wooden; the writer's a wee bit melodramatic. However, it sounds like he finally realized that what he wanted to do was make Macintosh software, not work for Apple.If that's the case then good luck for him. Large companies are not easy to be in as a visionary unless you have the ear of top management. If the vision he alludes to is worthwhile then it'll work out.That being said, we all suffer from ennui at points in our lives. Let's hope he didn't let that ennui get the best of him...
szandorApr 22, 2007
That's what your Dad told me last night.
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