Letters to the Editor
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Why Herself is Not The Early Adopter Type
In the early days of Apple, the programmers designed one of their computers with X amount of memory. One of Jobs' people, or Jobs, himself came in and said, "No, no, no. We only need X/2 memory." The engineers shrugged and wrote a simple programmatic switch to hide that memory. Then, just before shipping, Jobs or one of his suits came in and said, "We need X amount of memory. Everyone panic!" (Startups love creating havoc with engineers.) The engineers removed the switch and went out for beers. Genius!
You can bet that when someone comes along and makes Jobs a sweet offer, there's a little switch that will get flipped, engineers will have beers, and the next iPhone buyers will get all of Google's services.
That's why I'm not an early adopter.