‘Steve Jobs secretly began planning to move Apple off of the Motorola/IBM PowerPC chip and to adopt instead Intel’s. This would not be a simple task: it was akin to writing a new operating system’.
Is it? Is that what it’s like? Is it very similar to writing a new operating system, moving your platform from one CPU to another? I guess he wanted to show off his technical chops, say ‘look at me - I know about stuff!’ Not really that similar. Both are difficult tasks - I will give him that - but is that great writing? You found another thing that’s difficult? ‘It is akin to pushing a large rock up a hill’ - also difficult.
Of John Rubenstein, he says, ‘He eventually went to work for Palm.’ Did he? Was he, like, a janitor for them? He just went to work for Palm? Maybe, y’know, helping out in the technology department or something? He wasn’t, like, their CEO or something?
