David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)

I'm glad the iPhone exists.

It's not that it doesn't go both ways, but Apple wants it only one way.

And I think...

That is a mistake.

And it's a mistake that was avoidable.

And A, that's disappointing.

Certainly disappointing for me.

I've literally spent 20 years evangelizing this shit, right?

I've spent so much money buying Apple hardware, excusing a bunch of things they've done over the years.

And then for what?

For the fact that you wanted 30% of something that I created in the most unreasonable way possible, couldn't we have found a better way to do this?

I think they're going to get forced to do a better way.

But did you also have to go through the indignity of having a criminal contempt?

charge against you getting referred to prosecution.

It just seems so beneath Apple, but it also seems so in line with what happens to huge companies who are run by, quote unquote, professional managers rather than founders and unreasonable people.

This is why the disappointment is all greater because we had such high aspirations and expectations to Apple that they were the shining, uh,

city on the hill.

And they were guiding the industry in a million positive ways.

I think, as we talked about earlier, hardware is exciting again, in large part because Apple bought PA Semi and pursued a against all odds mission to get ARM up to the level it is today.

And we have these incredible M chips now because of it.