Dave Plummer

I think they rewrote it because it's different than the old taskbar.

And somebody was tasked with, you've got to deliver this set of functionality.

And if I cut out putting it on the left and the top and the right and two rows of tabs and all the other cool features, I can deliver it four months sooner.

And I'm not saying that's the right decision, but I'm guessing that might be the kind of thing that motivates it.

And they're on such a different release schedule now.

It used to be

you won't see much craftsmanship unless somebody owns a component for a long time and it settles to a point that then you can work on and polish it.

Right.

But if it's always churning and the UI is changing every release, it's never going to get that level of polish.

Right.

They've tried that, right?

Google, yeah.

Okay, but how do you respond to the Steve Jobs aspect of giving you customization implies that we couldn't figure out the right answer for you?

Or maybe there is no right answer and all four answers are equally right.

I have no idea.

So that was a piece of software that I wrote at home again.

And what happened was I was out with my wife, and I think it was a Sunday afternoon.

We're driving around.

This is 1993, and we're living in our apartment.

And we're just seeing what the housing market is like out there.