Casssééééeee Apple

Voilà une interview intéressante : celle de Steve Wozniak, le co-fondateur d'Apple avec l'autre Steve, vous savez, le mégalomane qui adore faire des conférences de presse ou tout le monde l'applaudit parce qu'il sort de nouveaux trucs super design à acheter. Je vous conseille de la lire en entier, mais j'ai collé ici le passage le plus croustillant.

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Do you think that is at all similar to the computer industry, where engineers develop a product and someone else sets the price?

            

It's very much like that, but sometimes the engineers are - yeah, no, I think it's very similar, very similar. Sometimes the engineers are true artists and really care what they're doing, doing a really great job. Although, I don't know how much I can even say that because the big companies, Microsoft, Apple and AOL, they tend to turn out the crappiest products, you know, software-wise. The ones that have the most bugs, the most items that are supposedly in there but don't work. The most things that are left out because they aren't finished. The most things that are inconsistent with the way they did their last program. I get the worst, worst software almost always from Apple.

             

You think so?

             

Oh yeah. I get third-party stuff and it's almost always just better, cleaner and more understandable. It works better and does what you'd expect instead of, you know, buggy things or not what you expect.

             

What's an example?

             

I couldn't give you an example. It happens just all the time. Over and over and over.

             

Is OS X is problematic in that way?

             

I don't even call it a problem; it's just something you learn to work around. It's like, there was such a cleaner, good approach to it and they did this stupid thing. But remember, the people who wrote the OS X weren't the people who developed the Lisa and Macintosh. Those guys are gone. "