I continue to be flabbergasted that so many otherwise savvy observers believe that a random assortment of software annoyances constitutes a crisis at Apple. Articles like this could have been, and were, written at any time in the past fifteen years.
Both Kirk and Janeway were much less by-the-book. They had no compunction against violating the prime directive, making unscrupulous alliances, seducing young ensigns, or reading the Constitution to a planet of Nazis (or something like that) if they felt it furthered their (usually noble if misguided) goals.
At the end of the day, Apple has always delivered far superior tools, frameworks, and ecosystem (development-wise). That to me says a lot more than how friendly the staff is.
>San Francisco is well known for its transformations, the most recent one fueled by tech money that has seemingly scrubbed much of the city clean.
Well if this is to be taken literally, it's laughable. San Francisco's thoroughfares are littered with garbage, the city smells like piss, and its public transportation is third world at best. I can't imagine what SF was like before the latest "transformation"!
Hate to be a downer, but I wasn't impressed with Star Fox even at the time as an 8 year old boy. Clearly a case where the technology had not yet caught up to the ambition.
That said, I've always been fascinated by the idea of cartridges as expansion cards. When your medium is a bulky plastic box plugging directly into the guts of the machine, you can do some crazy things.