I see your point. I think they're incompetent at both marketing and user retention. And the fact that so much of their payroll goes to inept C-suite executives didn't help either.
How so? I find Mozilla more willing to keep a project longer than Google. Not that that's not a very low bar, out that you can't criticise Mozilla for it.
He absolutely admits when he's wrong (as soon as he realizes anyway). I think it's part of his "no bullshit" value extending to himself.
His outbursts were always with good reason. But you don't need to belittle and scorn people to enforce values in a community. You don't need to be an ass. He was, and attracted people like him, and now it's darn near impossible to turn that culture around. At last not until a lot of the assholes like Ted retire.
You're right. It was released almost at the same time as the 1st gen iPod touch, and that iPod ran the same OS as the iPhone (then named iPhone OS). I thought the iPod touch came before, it didn't. The iPod classic was significantly different from the iPhone.
Linus has good values, by he's also a toxic asshole that surrounded himself with other toxic assholes. And that's why both immoral people and nice people eventually get shown the door / leave the Linux project.
I see your point. I think they're incompetent at both marketing and user retention. And the fact that so much of their payroll goes to inept C-suite executives didn't help either.