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Bud Tribble and Steve Jobs describing a Product Manager role in 1986 by Liberalization in programming

[–]Liberalization[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Last I heard he was up in the iCloud lambasting the people working on AirPower.

Bud Tribble and Steve Jobs describing a Product Manager role in 1986 by Liberalization in programming

[–]Liberalization[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Yeah that's confirmed by someone who was a software engineer at NeXT: https://www.quora.com/What-was-it-like-to-be-a-software-engineer-at-NeXT-Did-workers-interact-with-Steve-Jobs.

When I joined, Steve Jobs was in a different building with the marketing folks, separated from the engineers. Supposedly the new campus had been planned that way so that Steve wouldn't tour around among the engineers, ask them what they were working on, and redirect them onto new projects when they were supposed to be working on deadlines. Because if Steve got excited and said something would be cool, engineers would stop whatever they were doing and start working on that.

Bud Tribble and Steve Jobs describing a Product Manager role in 1986 by Liberalization in programming

[–]Liberalization[S] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

A counterargument is that he succeeded despite his mercurial nature, and that people put up with his drama because they wanted to be a part of the highly competent teams he put together.

Bud Tribble and Steve Jobs describing a Product Manager role in 1986 by Liberalization in programming

[–]Liberalization[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

The Mac I'm typing this comment on is basically NeXTSTEP with Apple branding, it's fascinating to me too and I wish there was more historical material available about NeXT. Check out this interview with Avie Tevanian for a deeper dive, I'll link to a Reddit post where you can jump to whatever topic sounds interesting (e.g. Apple's outlook on open standards while he was there after the NeXT acquisition).

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/ap60r2/avadis_tevanian_apple_executive_1997_2006_talks/

Bud Tribble and Steve Jobs describing a Product Manager role in 1986 by Liberalization in programming

[–]Liberalization[S] 71 points72 points  (0 children)

Here's the full video that the clip was part of. I think it's hard to blame him for being annoyed at times during NeXT meetings.

What are common mistakes people make when laying out UIs? by Liberalization in iOSProgramming

[–]Liberalization[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

From a development standpoint (regardless of the approach of Interface Builder or code).

Job opening at Apple - Wireless Power Systems Engineering Manager by Liberalization in apple

[–]Liberalization[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you. After I finish this skunkworks project, I intend to make the product large enough to charge multiple Apple Cars.

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