Volume 22.01 January 2005

The Offi cial Journal of the

1 Meeting Details PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF MEETING VENUE Wellington Regional Chamber of Commerce Level 9, 109 Featherston Street, Wellington When: Monday 31 January 2005 Time: 7.10 pm till 9.30pm (doors open 6.50pm)

This is our fi rst meeting of 2005 and already change is in the wind. About two weeks ago we discovered that TUANZ were shifting their (e)-vision operation to new premises and combining with the Wellington Regional Chamber of Commerce. We were advisied that we could still meet at the old address for our January meet- ing, however this changed the day prior to this magazine being prepared as all the furniture had been sold and we would have no seats to sit on. The committee is investigatingall our options regarding fi nding a new meeting venue and in the meantime we have accepted the Wellington Chamber of Commerce’s offer to hold our January meeting in their premises. Whether or not this will continue is dependant on whether we can fi nd a more suitable or less expensive venue. The committee has decided to try a new format for our monthly meetings and we will present a number of topics covered in less detail than the previous single topic. This month we will be looking at an iMac G5 from Magnum- Mac, MacWorld announcements, iPod photo, Freeware/Shareware download sites.

Regular Other Group Meetings Dates and venue will be advised once we can confirm meeting venue(s).

Cover Photo: Members of our Kapiti Branch enjoying the Christmas Dinner at the Waikanae Golf Club at the end of last month . Photo: Graeme Moffatt 2 President’s Report

Happy New Second prize of one year’s WelMac Year! membership went to Rob McMillan. Meeting Thanks to everyone who participated in the raffl e, and those who returned their Venue Change unsold tickets. Your support and assis- In case you tance is much appreciated. didn’t see the de- tails, please read the MacWorld Expo Summary notice of meeting on For those who haven’t seen the full the inside cover. TU- details from the MacWorld Expo, here is ANZ is moving out of the (e)-vision cen- a quick summary of the important an- tre, so we have been forced to move the nouncements and new products. Most end of January meeting at short notice. of these should be available in New At present, we don’t know when or Zealand during February or March. where we will be holding subsequent Mac OS X 10.4 (“Tiger”) is on sched- meetings (including the Mac Help Desk ule to ship some time in the fi rst half of and speciality group meetings). We will this year (which probably means April advise everyone as soon as possible, via through June). You may want to factor the E-Mail announcement list and web this into any decisions about the timing site. of purchasing a new computer , as you If anyone has any suggestions for po- won’t get an automatic/cheap upgrade tential meeting venues, please contact a to Tiger if you buy a computer before committee member. Our main require- Tiger is released. ments are cost, convenience of access, The Mac Mini is a new entry-level and access to an Internet connection. For Mac, intended as an alternative to the some meetings it is also useful to have eMac for those who want to use their several computers available. If necessary, own monitor, keyboard and mouse. See we may hold some of our meetings in later in this issue for details. different venues. The iPod Shuffl e is a new entry-level iPod model which uses fl ash memory Christmas Raffl e Winners instead of a hard drive. See later in this The WelMac Christmas 2004 raffl e issue for details. was drawn on Friday 17/12/2004 by See below for iLife ‘05 and iWork. Felicia Elliot (a staff member at Mag- Also in the pipeline from Apple: Final numMac), under supervision of David Cut Express HD. Empson and Graeme Moffatt. There were a lot of new third party First prize of an iPod Mini went to products introduced as well. A good Fay Panckhurst. overview can be found at: 3 http://www.macintouch.com/ iWork mwsf2005products.html This is a new product which is the iLife ‘05 apparent successor to AppleWorks. It The new release of iLife has major includes an updated Keynote and a updates to most of the components. If new application: Pages. iWork should you previously purchased iLife ‘04 or be cheaper than the previously avail- received it with a new computer, you able version of Keynote, but there is will have to buy iLife ‘05 to get the new no upgrade path from AppleWorks or versions. There may be an “up to date” Keynote. programme for very recent purchases: Keynote 2 has many improvements, check with your Mac dealer. including support for dual monitors, All the components have the usual more transitions, animated text and in- claims of performance improvements. teractive and self-play features. iTunes has had a minor update (which Pages is a new word processor, ap- can be downloaded separately): version parently derived from an earlier NeXT 4.7.1 fi xes a security problem and adds product of the same name. For the most support for the iPod Shuffl e. part it is a functional superset of the iPhoto 5 adds a lot more editing AppleWorks word processor, and is able features, but most of them are only to import (but not export) AppleWorks available on a G4 and G5. It also has documents. It can also import and ex- a calendar view (makes it easier to see port Microsoft Word documents. From when photos were taken), more search- the descriptions I’ve seen, Pages may be ing and organising tools, adds support capable enough to simple page layout for working with RAW photos from tasks, more than just word processing. many digital cameras and the ability iWork is not a complete replacement to import movies from cameras (which for AppleWorks: there are no spread- previously had to be done manually or sheet, database, paint or drawing com- using Image Capture). ponents. We can only hope that Apple iMovie HD supports high defini- will eventually extend iWork to include tion video, MPEG-4, 16:9 video and some of these features (particularly the improved editing tools. spreadsheet), as AppleWorks 6 is getting GarageBand 2 has eight-track record- rather long in the tooth! ing, music notation while recording, That’s all, folks! correction for pitch and timing, and the If you wish to contact me, your best ability to create your own loops. option is to send E-Mail to . You could try ring- and wide screen support, simpli- ing me at home (04 475 9755), but I’m fied DVD creation (in conjunction not there very much at the moment, so with iMovie HD) and adds yet more leave a message and I’ll get back to you themes. when I can.

4 Twenty One Years of Age

The Macintosh computer has now of- have already cautioned that both men fi cially come of age as it turned twenty might be mistaken about the impact that one last week. Up until now it has been the iPod and Mac mini might have on the behaving as a spoilt teenager and can industry. In a posting on his blog, Jupi- now genuinely claim adult status. What ter Research analyst Michael Gartenberg does this mean for the future? called Wong Hoo’s comments ‘foolish’. Apple Computer with its recent push ‘Creative doesn’t get it and is going to into digital music with the introduction dismiss Apple to their own peril. … You of the iPod and iTunes Music Store is now can see why [it’s] going to get beat up in seeing its fortunes in the digital world this market pretty bad’.” soaring and this must be good for the Adam C. Engst of the electronic Macintosh platform. It has been recently newsletter tidBits attended the San Fran- reported by Ian Betteridge of the eWeek cisco MacWorld and noted “Apple’s an- magazine that two of Apples largest nouncements of the iPod shuffl e and the competitors have claimed that they are Mac mini mark a sea change in Apple’s unfazed by the success of the iPod and demeanor. You could sense the glee in the likely impact of the new Mac mini. He Steve Jobs’s voice as he introduced the states “It’s a truism about the computer iPod shuffl e by showing fi rst the iPod’s industry that when your competitors market share in 2003 (about 31 percent, are talking in public about how they’re compared to the 62 percent share of the not worried about you, they’re doing a less-expensive fl ash-based MP3 players), lot of worrying about you in private. So and then the iPod’s market share today perhaps Apple should take it as a huge (about 65 percent, compared to the 29 compliment that within the space of a percent share of the flash-based MP3 week, senior executives of both Dell players). and Creative have taken time out of In short, the iPod’s market share their busy schedules to mention how doubled in 2004, almost entirely at the they aren’t concerned by the announce- expense of the fl ash-based MP3 players, ments the company made at this year’s and with the iPod shuffl e, Apple is basi- Macworld Expo in San Francisco. “ cally saying, “The rest of the MP3 player For Creative’s Sim Wong Hoo, the market? We’ll be taking that next.” iPod shuffl e is “a big let down … worse The question now is; how much will than the cheapest Chinese player.” For the Macintosh platform benefi t from all Dell’s Kevin Rollins, the iPod is “a fad” this renewed interst in the Apple brand and the Mac mini poses no threat to the and just how much further will be the company’s 17 percent market share. growth of market share? He goes on to say “Some analysts 5 Mac mini: Flat Cube, or Honey! I Shrunk the Power Mac!

The standard optical drive is a Combo by Glenn Fleishman Drive that reads DVD formats and reads and writes CDs at 16x (CD-RW) and 24x (CD-R). The $500 model includes a 1.25 The latest Macintosh, the Mac mini, GHz PowerPC G4 processor and a 40 GB is hardly bigger than the CDs and DVDs hard drive; the $600 model runs at 1.42 that it plays, but its size is as remarkable GHz with 80 GB of storage. The drives as its tiny price: either $500 or $600, based are relatively slow 4200 rpm 2.5-inch on processor speed and hard disk stor- laptop mechanisms. age. This is the lowest price I can ever Apple Skimps on RAM, Again recall seeing on any Macintosh ever Both configurations ship with just shipped. Even the cheapest CRT-based 256 MB of RAM, which is a bit of a joke iMac was at least $100 more. to run Mac OS X effectively, though that amount is enough to play iTunes, CDs, Apple achieved this price by sticking DVDs, and handle other common home to the PowerPC G4 for its CPU and not duties such as exploring the Web and including a monitor, keyboard, or mouse. checking email. The Mac mini does have a full comple- Build-to-order options include add- ment of entry-level connectors found in ing up to 1 GB of RAM; a SuperDrive the eMac, iMac, and iBook models: 10/ that reads and writes both CDs and 100 Mbps Ethernet, modem, one FireWire DVDs ($100); and AirPort Extreme ($80) 400 port, audio line out, and two USB 2.0 and Bluetooth ($50). The $500 model ports. It also has a DVI connector (with an can also be equipped with an 80 GB included VGA adapter and an optional drive for an extra $50. Apple says RAM S-video/composite adapter available if upgrades and post-purchase wireless needed), a critical addition to the usual modules require an Apple Authorized array to make this unit stand out as a Service Provider, though replacing the home or home entertainment device. The RAM yourself apparently won’t void internal graphics card is an ATI Radeon the Mac mini’s warranty. However, the 9200 with 32 MB of video memory. case isn’t designed to be easily accessed The anodized aluminum and poly- - the opposite of Apple’s iMac G5, where carbonate plastic case, now found across nearly every component can be replaced many Mac models (but rarely both mate- by the owner. rials in one product), measures 2.5 inches cm square). It weighs just 2.9 pounds 6 Apple’s fee for 512 MB of RAM runs The Cube failed in promising a kind not quite double that of similar brand- of design perfection that the manufac- name RAM ($75 versus about $40), but turing process was often unable to meet, their $425 asking price for a single 1 GB and in having a premium price over the DIMM is a pretty steep markup. I’d look simultaneously introduced Power Mac into buying compatible 1 GB RAM else- models that offered more performance, where, paying an Apple dealer to swap expandability, and familiarity. it in for $30 to $50, and then reselling the The Mac mini suffers from none of 256 MB that comes out of the machine. these defects. The 1.25 and 1.42 GHz It’s also possible that we’ll see special processors are more than enough for all case-cracking tools appear shortly. home tasks, and they create much less Not a Squashed Cube heat than the PowerPC G5, making such a small form factor possible. The Mac mini has a number of similar- People who have longed for a Mac ities with the doomed G4 Cube, of which and could neither afford a Power Mac I was a happy buyer and still own (it’s nor wanted the compromise in design about to become a home entertainment and fl exibility of an eMac can now slap console.) I posted a table on my personal either a cheap CRT or an incredibly ex- weblog with a head-to-head comparison pensive digital LCD onto a Mac mini and of specs, and they’re eerily alike. have a perfectly excellent computer.

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7 iPod shuffl e Poised to Sideswipe Portable Music

by Matt Neuburg $30 accessory), it can itself be plugged directly into your Mac (or your PC if you swing that way). It sports a ver- In his Macworld Expo keynote ad- sion of the typical circular iPod Click dress, Steve Jobs announced the long- Wheel controller (without the scrolling rumored newest member of the iPod wheel technology), but, in a strikingly family: a fl ash memory- based version original move designed to cut costs, of the iPod called the iPod shuffl e. it has no display: instead, an LED in- indicator light to show the level of the Flash memory is analogous to RAM; rechargeable battery; the battery, said the advantage is that there are no mov- to play for 12 hours (though we shall ing parts, unlike a regular iPod that have to see how long it lasts in practice) contains a hard drive and is subject to charges directly from the USB port of skipping if shaken (and to expensive your computer, and Apple also sells damage if dropped), making the regu- a $30 power adapter that allows you lar iPod a poor candidate for jogging plug it directly into the wall instead. and other vigorous exercise. The disad- A full charge is said to require about vantage of fl ash memory has tradition- four hours, with two hours enough to ally been the cost, but Apple has chosen get you to 80 percent capacity. an impressive and surprising strategy As one would expect from a member of undercutting the competition on of the iPod family, the iPod shuffl e can price: a 512 MB model is just $100, and play music in MP3, AAC, and Audible a 1 GB model is just $150. formats. It apparently cannot play Physically, the iPod shuffle (the Apple Lossless fi les, but curiously it small initial letter in “shuffl e” is de- can play WAVs, which are completely liberate; perhaps it’s an attempt on uncompressed. You can, of course, drag Apple’s part to make reportage less individual songs from iTunes into your legible) looks like a white cigarette iPod shuffl e, or purchase an album at lighter: it’s a little over three inches the iTunes Store and download it di- long and one inch wide (76 mm by 25 rectly into your iPod shuffl e; but Apple mm), and weighs less than one ounce is also touting the new Autofi ll feature, (28 g). It has a headphone jack at one which lets iTunes create and upload a end and a USB connector at the other random playlist for you, either from (covered by a cap), so although it can specifi c iTunes playlists or from your be used with a dock (available as a entire library. On the iPod shuffl e itself,

8 a large slider lets you toggle between drive by itself costs about $50. playing your tunes sequentially or in Other accessories are advertised at random order; the invitation to live Apple’s site, including an armband - dangerously by listening to unknown the default body attachment is a rather music in an unknown order is a major dorky-looking lanyard that hangs the element of Apple’s explicit consumer iPod around your neck like the Ancient message. (Apple must imagine its cus- Mariner’s albatross - a protective sport tomers have a peculiarly low danger case that will also prevent thieves from threshold.) The iPod shuffl e can also snatching your iPod shuffl e from the accept data fi les, so it doubles as a USB lanyard, and an external battery pack “keychain drive”; a setting in iTunes for two AAA batteries, adding an extra lets you dictate how much of the drive’s 20 hours of playing time. Most of the space is allocated for music and data. accessories are slated for arrival at the Many people at the show commented Apple Store in the coming weeks, but that the USB drive capability of the the iPod shuffl e is available right now, iPod shuffl e made it an easy purchas- with estimated shipping times of 1 to ing decision, given that a 512 MB USB 2 weeks.

9 TidBits iTunes Music Store downloads percent, up from 26.7 percent, from the top 250 million year-ago quarter. January 24, 2005 - 08:34 EST Apple purchased and downloaded more than 250 In the first quarter, Apple shipped million songs from the iTunes Music Store. 1,046,000 Macintosh computers and Apple says iTunes users are now download- 4,580,000 iPods, representing an impres- ing one and a quarter million songs per day, sive 26 percent increase in CPUs and a which is an annual run rate of almost half stunning 525 percent increase in iPods a billion songs per year. In addition, the over the same quarter a year ago, which iTunes Music Store is now available in includes the traditional holiday shopping fi fteen countries, which together represent period running from late November until more than 70 percent of the global music Christmas. The company has now sold over market. “When we launched the iTunes 10 million iPods. Music Store we were hoping to sell a million Microsoft Updates Entourage songs in the fi rst six months -- now we’re Spam Filter selling over a million songs every day, and Microsoft has released Junk E-mail Filter we’ve sold over a quarter billion songs in Update 1 for Microsoft Entourage 2004 via total,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “iTunes the package’s Microsoft AutoUpdate utility is leading the way into the digital music era (if you’ve set it not to check automatically, and together with iPod is changing the way choose Help > Check for Updates from millions of music lovers fi nd and enjoy their any Office 2004 application to launch music.” [ Email this story ] AutoUpdate). The 2.9 MB update includes Apple Posts Highest Ever First more current defi nitions of which email Quarter Profi t messages should be considered junk; since Fresh on the heels of its Macworld Entourage 2004 relies on spam defi nitions Expo product announcements, Apple developed and constantly adjusted by Mi- released its fi rst quarter results for fi scal crosoft, updates are essential to keep the year 2005, with CEO Steve Jobs boasting spam fi lter working. For more information the “highest quarterly revenue and net on using Entourage 2004’s junk mail fi lter, income in Apple’s history.” The quarter see Tom Negrino’s “Take Control of What’s ending 25-Dec-04 gave the company a net New in Entourage 2004” ebook; it includes profi t of $295 million, compared to a net a coupon for $5 off Michael Tsai’s excellent profi t of $63 million in the fi rst quarter a SpamSieve utility if you would prefer to year ago. Revenue was $3.49 billion, up use a Bayesian-based approach to fi ltering 74 percent, and gross margin was 28.5 spam that learns from the mail you actually receive. 10 Continuous Revolution

by Glenn Fleishman that had to pull off many dozens of unique tricks in hardware and soft- ware to work at all. Apple previously Andy Hertzfeld has stories to tell. and even simultaneously suffered Dozens of them. And if you ever notable failures in putting too much owned a 128K Macintosh, aspired to innovation in one box - the Apple III, own one, or admired the work behind the Lisa - and being able to deliver at that extraordinary box, Hertzfeld’s a reasonable price and performance. new book Revolution in the Valley (Don’t flame me, Lisa fans: Steve is a charming and picaresque trip Jobs raided Lisa team members and through his personal experience in innovation to squeeze into the Mac, helping give birth to the Mac. helping to doom the earlier machine. Rich Page screamed during an early tidbitselectro00/ref=nosim/> Mac/Lisa cross-team briefing, “You The book is an outgrowth of Hertz- guys don’t know what you’re doing! feld’s Folklore.org Web site, which he ... The Macintosh is going to destroy started in July 2003 to relate the pieces the Lisa! The Macintosh is going to of the past that have never been told, ruin Apple!” And for you Apple III or at least not told at length. The site fans... what am I saying? There are itself is a demonstration of software no Apple III fans. Although I did he’s developing to let people tell sto- spend some time entering data into ries collectively through recounting an Apple III around 1980, however, it and annotation. Because Folklore.org didn’t give me any profound insight continues to operate on the same ba- into the machine.) sis, if you find errors in the book or Hertzfeld didn’t compile a take issue with Hertzfeld’s interpreta- straightforward narrative for the tion, you can visit the site and com- book, and it shows its roots as anec- ment on the particular anecdote. dotes and short stories on a Web site in two ways: first, it meanders quite Hertzfeld has had an interesting pleasantly around amusing stories, career since leaving Apple after the doubling back into a past that’s al- first Mac shipped in 1984; he also has ready told to extract another nugget. just a handful of scores to settle. Most Second, Hertzfeld used some of the of the time, he comes to praise, not to comments left on his Folklore.org site bury. The book revolves around the to annotate his book, including those nitty gritty of producing a computer that contradict or critique his memory. 11 The book would have benefited from And, surprise, a company founded more of this back-and-forth, actually, by none other than Burrell Smith - a as a number of comments on the Web little firm named Radius - took incred- site are quite pointed, poignant, or ible of advantage of that slot to offer just credulous about the accuracy of advanced graphics cards that helped certain stories. establish the Mac’s early preeminence The Hacker Hero in desktop publishing and illustra- tion. (When I worked at the Kodak The book does have a hero and Center for Creative Imaging in the a villain, and a few lesser good and early 1990s, we had at least a few evil figures. The hero is Burrell Smith, hundred thousand dollars in Radius the hilariously weird hardware ge- cards and monitors.) Hertzfeld notes nius who came up with many of the on his site in response to a comment strangest and most successful ideas of that Smith is now quite private and squeezing more performance out of has been retired from commercial the Macintosh motherboard. He also work since leaving Radius many should earn Mac owners undying love years ago. for trying, unsuccessfully, to insert an Other members of the team have expansion port and upgradable RAM also left the technology realm. Bill into the first Mac. Atkinson, for instance, became a full- Jobs and the Mac’s conceptual time photographer after many years of father Jef Raskin agreed that the intense work. I met Bill in 1991 at the Mac shouldn’t have a slot because Center for Creative Imaging where he it would add cost and complexity. was attending a special design invita- Smith was told by Jobs that “there tional along with John Sculley and a was no way the Mac would even host of designers, photographers, and have a single slot.” But Hertzfeld illustrators. (That’s where I overheard notes that “Burrell was not easily a Kodak employee, while demoing a thwarted... After talking it over with terrible piece of software to John Scul- Brian [Howard], they decided to call it ley, explain how keyboard commands the ‘diagnostic port’ instead of a slot, were better than mouse commands. arguing that it would save money “No,” Sculley said quietly, “they’re during manufacturing if testing de- not.”) Hertzfeld’s picture of Atkin- vices could access the processor bus to son shows him as rather prickly and diagnose manufacturing errors.” But sensitive, although that’s partly be- the engineering manager Rod Holt cause Atkinson’s role in the Lisa was spotted the subterfuge. “That thing’s largely ignored, and he didn’t want to really a slot, right? You’re trying to be pushed to the sidelines again. sneak in a slot!...Well that’s not going Other minor heroes include Bud to happen!” Tribble, who at the time was pursu- Ah, well; we had to wait until the ing a medical degree while writing Macintosh II for a full-fledged slot. 12 memory management software. (Trib- Hertzfeld’s recollection of Raskin ble left Apple, later joined Hertzfeld is as a fun and creative manager with at Eazel, and eventually returned to an imperious and professorial man- Apple a couple of years ago.) ner who helped bond a team together The Manager Villain around a common and unique vision. Without Raskin, as Hertzfeld relates You’re expecting me to say Steve it, the Lisa would have been Apple’s Jobs, right? Wrong. flagship with incremental improve- The villain of the story is Bob ments, rather than revolutionary Belleville, the Mac’s engineering ones. Jobs’s spearheading of the Mac manager for Hertzfeld’s last couple led it to success because he was con- of years at Apple. Hertzfeld seems stantly overriding and micromanag- least fair in presenting a pretty one- ing the project for good or bad - but sided and nasty picture of Belleville. the project received staff, resources, He may have been a poor manager and his laser- beam attention. or out of his depth - I don’t know Steve Jobs ultimately drove Hertz- whether that’s accurate - but he’s the feld to distraction, and also appears as least fleshed-out person in the book. a paper-thin caricature. But that may Everyone else emerges as quirky be the only Steve Jobs that anyone and interesting, even when they’re who works with him gets to know. screaming at Hertzfeld. Belleville is Jobs pushes his staff to work crazy his bete noire, and a nasty cipher. hours, makes last-minute changes, Also interesting is that Jef Raskin and pursues insane technical deci- appears quite positively in the book. sions. When Smith shows a blowup Raskin has spent a lot of time since of the blueprint of the latest mother- leaving Apple well before the Mac board layout, Jobs says, “That part’s shipped trying to prevent Apple and really pretty... but look at the memory others from erasing his name from chips. That’s ugly. The lines are too the history books as the conceptual close together.” When an engineer originator of the Macintosh’s core points out that no one will see the concepts. Raskin deserves to be board, Jobs replies, “I’m gonna see it! placed front and center as the person I want it to be as beautiful as possible, who pulled together ideas that he even if it’s inside the box. A great car- had been writing about and lectur- penter isn’t going to use lousy wood ing about since the 1960s into a single for the back of a cabinet, even though project with funding. The fact that nobody’s going to see it.” (It’s clear Jobs stripped him of control and his Jobs was never a carpenter.) He makes role, and that the ultimate Macintosh the team design a pretty board, and has significant differences from what when it doesn’t work, they revert his general vision and specific hard- back to the functional design. ware choices were, shouldn’t lessen More typically, Jobs pursues dead the appreciation of his role. 13 ends, such as an Alps-designed 3.5 making it fast and slick; and Switcher, inch floppy disk drive; fortunately the original context-changing tool for cooler heads at Apple maintained a running multiple programs at once on back channel to Sony (who provided the Mac. the final 3.5 inch drives), which in- I remember the excitement of volved sometimes hiding a Japanese owning my first Macintosh Plus, and engineer in a closet in an Apple build- remember buying an upgrade toolkit ing when Jobs unexpectedly popped with more RAM (static strip, long by. Allen screwdriver, and case cracker) On the other hand, Jobs does make - and then seeing the glory of the sig- a number of key decisions along the natures on the inside of the case as development process that make the I put in a whopping four megabytes Mac what it was, from case design to of RAM. aspects of its performance. The man I can’t say that Hertzfeld doesn’t couldn’t stop poking, but he did bring have an ego, but most of the stories out the best in his engineers, a trait he tells are about other people. He that he has apparently retained to doesn’t put himself front and center this day. except in some of the most painful Hertzfeld describes how he and a incidents, which typically involve few other key Apple people had din- Steve Jobs either demanding some- ner with Jobs after Sculley organized thing of him or putting him in a po- the board coup that removed virtually sition where other people are asking all of Jobs’s control of the company, him not to listen to Jobs, his nominal despite being the titular chairman of uber-boss. the board. It’s the most human picture Hertzfeld ends the story before of Jobs in the book. And it’s clear from joining Radius, helping to found the story that Jobs was never going to General Magic, and then being back be in a position to be fired by anyone with many original Apple developers ever again. at Eazel. We don’t quite know how Bill Gates also comes across as a the last 20 years treated him because villain, appearing frequently in the the universal interest in Apple doesn’t guise of Coyote, twisting words and necessary extend to those other firms. using his magic bag of tricks to seize And perhaps the statute of limitations patents and ideas. on telling the blunt truth (as he sees Hertzfeld’s Journey it) extends back 20 years. It was exciting to read Hertzfeld’s first-person accounts of develop- ing the software for Thunderscan, a scanner-head replacement for the ImageWriter’s print head built by a company that needed his help in 14 Trade Directory

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