About values....

> On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 11:28 PM Stephane Ducasse <[hidden email]>
> wrote:
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>> https://youtu.be/keCwRdbwNQY
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>> I would love to have $ to market Pharo but I like this talk
>>
>> Stef
>>
>
> Let's be sincere here, there would have been no Apple without Steve.
>
> Ironically even Steve was not aware of his massive importance. When he was
> asked about Windows share on the OS market and what hope MacOS has battling
> a Goliath that Microsoft is , Steve said that there could be no competition
> and no hope other than increasing the shared from 3% at the time to 5%  the
> next 5 years.
>
> MacOS increased its share to 10% instead and when everyone predicted that
> macs are no longer the focus of the company, Apple smelled the roses and saw
> that maybe OS market is not as hopeless as they initially thought. As a
> result we had the 5k iMac , a computer that costed at its release as much it
> costed to get the monitor alone  and then the iMac pro.
>
> Truth is that known really knows the market, not even Steve, none can really
> predict it and none can really manipulate it. Its made for humans by humans
> and so its influenced by the chaos that is called human emotion.
>
> However I agree with Steve.
>
> If you have to choose between 1 billion dollars or the ability to greatly
> inspire people, you will be foolish to pick the first.
>
> Personally I think a big obstacle for Pharo is not money but this part.
>
> If one opens Pharo without knowing anything about it , his first reaction
> will be "so what ?".
>
> Why ?
>
> Because there is no obvious thing to inspire.
>
> Pharo ability to inspire requires a deep introduction to the language and
> considerably experience till you get at least the basics.
>
> This is our greatest weakness.
>
> We have prioritized coder productivity and we have sacrificed smooth
> learning curve. Meaning there is a lot of friction to be introduced to Pharo
> but once you do and learn the basics its easy to fall in love with the whole
> ideology that Pharo is.
>
> Frankly Pharo has improved this already, Squeak was a mess and Pharo did a
> lot of clean up. Unfortunately smooth learning curve is a secondary priority
> and this will be growing issue the more complex Pharo becomes and let's face
> it Pharo is a very complex environment already.
>
> So sorry Stef , you know I don't have an issue admiring when you are correct
> but in this one you are very wrong.
>
> Python had no money at all, actually I am willing to bet it had less than
> Pharo, but Python offered this super smooth learning curve and it now
> dominates the programming field.
>
> Ironically I think Pharo would have been a far better choice in this field.
>
> Why ?
>
> - The language is much easier and simpler
>
> - We got a much better VM with far higher performance
>
> - We have a proper IDE that is fully open source, free and only one, instead
> of a thousand variants of the same thing
>
> etc.
>
> Also as the video implied it does not matter how much money you throw at
> marketing. Many companies throw a ton of money and they get close to nothing
> in return.
>
> It's extremely hard to buy inspiration, you either have it , or you don't.
>
> Ironically I am writting this lines on my iMac using Windows. I am a Windows
> hater but I got to admit, Microsoft seems to finally get the message, not
> only the open sourced .NET which make a huge part of Windows they also made
> Windows 10 far more stable , slick and well designed. Windows 10 may become
> the only version of Windows I manage to like.
>
> I am sure it's not because they throw more money to it. More like they throw
> more brains to it.