waffle

I’m not much for the newspeak line of reasoning that any time you’ve done something, it’s spoiled for everyone else going forward, so therefore you can’t copy it, but if you don’t do it, then you suck. But sometimes sheer distance sets some things into perspective.

19 years apart, voice email:

• 1990: Steve Jobs demos NeXT’s “Interpersonal Computing” (skip to 03:15).
• 2009: A new feature in Office 2010 is sticking voice clips inside the chrome.