(Audience) What about OpenDoc?
What about OpenDoc?
Yeah
What about it?
It's dead right? It's dead right?
Yeah
Well... you know... let me say something
as this is sort of generic.
I know some of you spent a lot of time working
on stuff that we put a bullet in the head of.
I apologize.
I feel your pain but
Apple suffered for several years from lousy engineering management
I have to say it and there were people
that were going off in eighteen
different directions doing arguably
interesting things in each one of them.
Good engineers. Lousy management. And what happened was you look at the farm that's
been created with all these different
animals going in different directions
and it doesn't add up the total is less
than the sum of the parts.
And so we had to decide
what are the fundamental
directions we're going in and what makes
sense and what doesn't and there were a
bunch of things that didn't and
microcosmically they might have made
sense macrocosmically they made no sense.
And you know the hardest thing is... when
you think about focusing right? You think
well focusing is is saying yes!
No.
Focusing... is about saying no.
Focusing is about saying no.
and you've got to say
no no no no and you say no you piss off
people and they go talk to the San Jose
Mercury and they write a shitty article
about you. You know? And it's really a
pisser because you want to be nice you
don't want to tell the San Jose Mercury
the person is telling you this you know
just was asked to leave or this or that
is that so you take the lumps and Apple
has been taking their share of lumps for
the last six months in a very unfair way
and it's been taking them you know?
...like an adult and I'm proud of that
and there's more to come I'm sure.
There's more coming. Some of these I
read these articles about some of these
people that have left I know some of
these people, they have done it in
seven years and you know they leave and
it's like you know it it's like the
company's going to fall apart the next
day and and so you know I think there'll
be stories like that they come and go
but focus is about saying no and the
result of that focus is going to be some
really great products where the total is
much greater than the sum of the parts.
And OpenDoc... I mean I was for putting a
bullet in the head of OpenDoc...
A- I didn't think is great technology but 
B- it didn't fit the rest of the world
isn't going to use OpenDoc and I think
as a container strategy there's some
stuff in the Java space that's much
better
and even the OpenDoc guys were
basically trying to rewrite the whole
thing in Java anyway and which was a
restart so... it didn't make sense.
