George Harrison dies, and Apple posts his mug on the home page for a
week. Jef Raskin dies, and not a word on the page. Where are your
priorities, Cupertino?

Joe

In article <1109724063.733483.220060@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups .com>,
jc.news******.com wrote:

> George Harrison dies, and Apple posts his mug on the home page for a
> week. Jef Raskin dies, and not a word on the page. Where are your
> priorities, Cupertino?
>
> Joe

Jef's role in the design of Macintosh has been debated... while he
initiated the project, his vision of the Mac was very different than
what was released-- no mouse, no icons, no graphical user interface... a
very low price point.... not even a 680x0 CPU. He DID coin the name, but
that's about his only lasting influence on the Mac.

His ideas were eventually reflected in the Canon Cat... a computer that
went nowhere on the market.

Fairly early on, he was replaced by Steve Jobs-- and little love was
lost between them. (Raskin was quoted as saying re. Jobs "He would have
made a good king of France").

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Alan Zisman wrote:
> In article <1109724063.733483.220060@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups .com>,
> jc.news******.com wrote:
>
> > George Harrison dies, and Apple posts his mug on the home page for
a
> > week. Jef Raskin dies, and not a word on the page. Where are your
> > priorities, Cupertino?
> >
> > Joe
>
> Jef's role in the design of Macintosh has been debated... while he
> initiated the project, his vision of the Mac was very different than
> what was released-- no mouse, no icons, no graphical user
interface... a
> very low price point.... not even a 680x0 CPU. He DID coin the name,
but
> that's about his only lasting influence on the Mac.
>
> His ideas were eventually reflected in the Canon Cat... a computer
that
> went nowhere on the market.
>
> Fairly early on, he was replaced by Steve Jobs-- and little love was
> lost between them. (Raskin was quoted as saying re. Jobs "He would
have
> made a good king of France").

Most of us are aware of these fine points (my old company owned a CCAT
prototype in the early 90's, where it sat collecting dust with a
Fortune 32:16). But Jef did initiate the project, regardless of what
the final product had eventually morphed into. To use a crude
metaphor, the laws of physics have settled into a form different from
that after the Big Bang. But where would they be without the Big Bang?


Joe