Thoughts
There’s like a 2012 Gruber article I found on HN where Gruber is rebutting someone that’s claiming that Apple’s stock price will surely
decline now that Jobs is dead because Apple isn’t an “open” company.
I feel like Apple fans deserve to act a little smug, because in 2012 Gruber and Snell were defending Apple when Apple was not the most valuable company in the world and a lot of people expected it to start floundering any minute. And a lot of the arguments are the same. Gruber has a comment about Linux on the desktop not being successful. But a lot of the tone is different today because Apple has been so successful. (They may be complaining about the lack of third party App stores, but they’re insisting that Apple will lose to Android because of it—not calling for regulation like today.)
=> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5303418
In 100 years Apple v Windows v Linux will be like Greece v Rome v Egypt; it’s going to be wild to watch the power shift, not over decades, but over the course of a couple of paragraphs in a textbook.