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And meanwhile, it's all happening... My day two thoughts about Apple have evolved a little from yesterday, but in the same direction. The new MacBook is cool but now that I realize it is actually less powerful than the current MacBook Air, I'm less interested. I already have an iPad, so... this doesn't solve any problems for me.
From esr: Why I won't mourn Mozilla. "By failing to defend and support Eich, the Mozilla Foundation wronged a man who had every right to expect that he, too, would be judged by his work alone. They abandoned the hacker way and trashed their own legitimacy. It was a completely unforced error." I don't know to what extent Mozilla's decline is attributable to this - perhaps Google's Chrome is more responsible - but it definitely didn't help.
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I've been coding on something cool, it's a lot of fun. A rickety quick-and-dirty mechanism is slowly being torn down and replaced by a solid structure, layer by layer. Not earth shattering but quite satisfying. Teaching the zeros and ones to dance :)
I think Apple have stumbled badly with launching the Edition watches. For people to pay luxury prices, there has to be significant brand appeal and differentiation. When you buy a Maserati it has a golden brand, and it looks and feels differently from other cars. The Apple brand doesn't stand for luxury, and the Watch Edition is functionality identical to a $350 Watch Sport. Perhaps Apple should create a new brand entirely for luxury products, like Toyota did with Lexus, and Nokia did with Vertu. Sell them in different ways, and have different stores or market them via existing luxury retailers. I'm actually surprised that Angela Ahrendts didn't see this coming. Or maybe she did, but was overruled by Tim Cook and Jony Ive? Neither have ever launched a luxury brand before.
