Steve Jobs changed my life.<\/p>\n
Outside of my immediate family, I think I can only say that about him.<\/p>\n
I wanted to contribute to his vision.<\/p>\n
I left graduate school to write Mac software — D2<\/sup> Software’s MacSpin — to contribute to Jobs’ vision.<\/p>\n I followed the siren call of multiprocessor performance and lead a team to create the TokaMac family of Mac accelerators. People could do more on their Macs with my products.<\/p>\n In the height of irony, I joined IBM to lead IBM’s Mac OS licensing technical team. We were successful. Jobs disapproved.<\/p>\n I spent 11 years in IBM Software Group tracking everything Apple did. Apple once suggested that IBM embrace a Cocoa UI in Java. I countered with a vision of a browser based UI. We now call it AJAX. It was the original programming model for the iPhone.<\/p>\n In 2009, I asked to be laid off from IBM. The goodbye severance launched a new embrace of Jobs’ vision; I returned to programming with the iPhone.<\/p>\n I am beyond being a fanboy. People who call me that don’t understand the vision.<\/p>\n I am a contributor.<\/p>\n Thank you Steve for making a place to play and contribute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Steve Jobs changed my life. Outside of my immediate family, I think I can only say that about him. I wanted to contribute to his vision. I left graduate school to write Mac software — D2 Software’s MacSpin — to contribute to Jobs’ vision. I followed the siren call of multiprocessor performance and lead a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ddg","category-ipad","category-iphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ddg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ddg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ddg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ddg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ddg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ddg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ddg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/80"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ddg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ddg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ddg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}