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gnarlouseyesterday at 7:52 PM2 repliesview on HN

One of my claude code projects was going to be "theghostofsteve", a social media platform where people post things they love and hate about appleOS things. Likes/Dislikes would be "genius/it's shit". And in all likelihood, the platform would surface that most users think "it's shit."

The platform would aggregate by major/minor version, and you could see in totality whether the current version of macOS/iOS would make Steve proud of miserable.

Ultimately I decided against it, for defamation/cease-and-desist reasons, and not wanting to find out. But it needs to exist.


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yklyesterday at 8:10 PM

Wouldn’t “insanely great”/“it’s shit” be more Steve than “genius”/“it’s shit”?

Joel_Mckaytoday at 1:15 AM

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were a team, and Jobs would regularly tell people their work was "shit" if it didn't make sense.

Apple traditionally burned out its talent, and is no longer structured to follow Jobs original vision. There is a lot of goodwill with the users, but just like Sony/HP/IBM/Microsoft/Sun it can't last forever. The process-people entrench themselves, and ruin everything... just as Jobs predicted. =3