What
about OpenDoc? Yeah. Yeah?
What about it?
It's dead, right?
It's dead, right? Well,
me say something that's sort of generic. I know some of you spend a lot of time working on stuff that we put a bullet in the head of. I apologize.
I feel your pain.
But
Apple
suffered for several years
from no from lousy engineering management. I I have to say it. And there were people
that were going off in 18 different directions,
doing arguably interesting things in each one of them. Good engineers,
lousy management.
And
what happened was you look at the farm that's been created with all these different animals going in different directions,
and it doesn't add up. The
total is less than the sum of the parts.
And so we had to decide
what are the fundamental directions we're going in and what makes sense and what doesn't. And there were a bunch of things that didn't.
And microcosmically,
they might have made sense, macrocosmically,
they made no sense.
And, you know, the hardest thing is, when you think about focusing, right, you think, well, focusing is
saying yes, no.
Focusing is about saying no.
Focusing is about saying no. And you've got to say no, no, no. And when you say no, you piss off people. And they go talk to the San Jose Mercury and they write a shitty article about you. You know? And it's really a pisser
because
you you want to be nice, you don't want to tell the San Jose Mercury the person that's telling you this, you know, just was asked to leave or this or that or this or that. So you take the lumps and Apple has been taking their share of lumps for the last six months in a very unfair way
and it's been taking them, you know,
like an
adult and I'm proud of that.
And there's more to come, I'm sure. There's more to come. Mean, some of these I read these articles about some of these people that have left. I know some of these people. They haven't done anything in seven years. And they leave and it's like
the company is going to fall apart the next day.
And so
I think there'll be stories like that that come and go, but focus is about saying no.
And the result of that focus
is going to be some really great products where the total is much greater than the sum of the parts.
And
OpenDoc, I mean, was for putting a bullet in the head of OpenDoc. A, didn't think it was great technology, but B, it didn't fit.
The rest of the world isn't going to use OpenDoc.
And
I think as a container strategy, there's some stuff in the Java space that's much better.
Even And the OpenDoc guys were basically trying to rewrite the whole thing in Java anyway
and which was a restart.
So it didn't make sense.