Apple's Minimum Viable Product

To be fair - thats what computers were back then. Pretty much just boards. The Apple I was impressive because you didn't have to solder that board together yourself, unlike most other home computers at the time. I don't really agree with the authors premise once you put it under a historical lens

I feel like the 'get something out there' philosophy is so important. When you do, you can use the feedback to revise future plans and features you were planning on implementing, as well as having the ability to pivot with minimum wasted time. Also its not fun to build an elaborate architecture and to have it fail (violating the principle of failing early and often).

That's just not how Apple's first customers saw the product. It wasn't minimally viable, it was absolutely amazing compared to your other options at the time.

I don't really get it: this guy seems to be bashing Jobs in the first paragraph ("I always hate when...") only to come out in his defense in the next paragraph. What is exactly the point of the post? That a company started with a not-so-good-looking but impressive products and over the years with the infuse of billions of dollars they have improved it? I thought that was the normal way to go.

The biggest irony in tech is that Apple started out as the common man's computer company. Then, it morphed into making computers from a functional item into a luxury purchase. Amazing.