David Braben: a Steve Jobs of video gaming industry?
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NO NO NO ....
I'm not even going to say what I think about Jobs as it would be disrespectful of the dead, but in no way is DB anything like him, thank god.
I'm not even going to say what I think about Jobs as it would be disrespectful of the dead, but in no way is DB anything like him, thank god.
Shall we not get into an apple bashing thread... Concentrate on the positives (i.e. DB and ED) and not the negatives.
If i was DB i'd be insulted. Jobs was a troll who stifled at least a generation of innovation.
I actually suspect the rest of the team, who are working solely on ED, are coming up with most of the ideas and design decisions. DB is a bit of a jack of all trades now, seeing as he's running the show. I'm sure he keeps his hand in, but I reckon the Sandros and the Mikes and the Michaels (and the others - I don't mean to miss them out but they don't post here as much so I can't remember their names
) are actually contributing much more "essence" to the game than DB. Again, I'm not dissing him - his job is just mainly something else now... so it does seem a little bit sycophantic when people keep putting him up on a pedestal to worship. It's like worshipping Jobs and ignoring Woz, to keep with the topic of the thread. Close the thread then, because Apple bashing is the only intelligent reply.
Wow baskila, please don't derange this thread even further, we can guess your preferences here
There is a fine distinction between not liking someone and acknowledging someone's achievements.
Even if I do not like how Mr. Jobs behaved on a personal level one can not ignore the fact that he built a global enterprise out of a garage company and was able to stand up against something like Microsoft years on end.
And still, even if Elite Dangerous is quite a nice game, you just can't compare the two people. They are both star systems apart in what they do/did, who they are/were and what they have achieved.
There is a fine distinction between not liking someone and acknowledging someone's achievements.
Even if I do not like how Mr. Jobs behaved on a personal level one can not ignore the fact that he built a global enterprise out of a garage company and was able to stand up against something like Microsoft years on end.
And still, even if Elite Dangerous is quite a nice game, you just can't compare the two people. They are both star systems apart in what they do/did, who they are/were and what they have achieved.
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Wow baskila, please don't derange this thread even further, we can guess your preferences here
There is a fine distinction between not liking someone and acknowledging someone's achievements.
Even if I do not like how Mr. Jobs behaved on a personal level one can not ignore the fact that he built a global enterprise out of a garage company and was able to stand up against something like Microsoft years on end.
He wasn't. Microsoft was very interested in survival of Apple as sole competition (when in fact it didn't compete for same market place) to get Department of Justice off their case, because Microsoft without sweat destroyed any competition it had during nineties and early 21th century...with not so legal methods. They invested 200M in cash when Apple was grasping at straws, and developed Microsoft Office for Mac platform at their own expense, even knowing they won't get money back.
As human beings I can compare them at level do I like such behavior or not. I don't like Steve. I was long time torn about this, but more I learn about his actual characteristics (not PR soup we were given for last years he was alive), more I see that anything I despise in Apple in last years came from him actually. There's really no competition.
OK guys and gals - I think we get the gist of this thread. It's going to be the same thing repeated so it's getting closed. Not any one persons fault but it's not productive.
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