I offer a counter to the assumption on page 2 of the article..
Its not User experience in its end-all but reducing R and D costs with right R and D choices that allowed the focus on user experience. Let me explain.
Several universities concentrated on Mach Kernel OS design patterns. Thu,s when SJ left Apple he founded NEXT based upon extending this pattern with an OOP C language as the trade-offs with MACH in the OS do not benefit unless you adapt an OOP language to build the apps sitting on top that Mach Kernel OS and to be blunt C++ is a poor OOP computer language.
So when NEXT was acquired by Apple they had the opportunity to lower R&D costs as the initial R&D costs for this new way had already been paid by NEXT. Apple in its purchase of NEXT was just securing a price level of R&D for the next 20 years by buying the R&D team.
The assumption that Apple started with user experience is somewhat miss-guided and completely wrong.
To give you an idea of that initial R&D investment ..how many decades has GNU Hurd been limping along? Exactly..
Its not User experience in its end-all but reducing R and D costs with right R and D choices that allowed the focus on user experience. Let me explain.
Several universities concentrated on Mach Kernel OS design patterns. Thu,s when SJ left Apple he founded NEXT based upon extending this pattern with an OOP C language as the trade-offs with MACH in the OS do not benefit unless you adapt an OOP language to build the apps sitting on top that Mach Kernel OS and to be blunt C++ is a poor OOP computer language.
So when NEXT was acquired by Apple they had the opportunity to lower R&D costs as the initial R&D costs for this new way had already been paid by NEXT. Apple in its purchase of NEXT was just securing a price level of R&D for the next 20 years by buying the R&D team.
The assumption that Apple started with user experience is somewhat miss-guided and completely wrong.
To give you an idea of that initial R&D investment ..how many decades has GNU Hurd been limping along? Exactly..