Re: The Achilles Heel Of Secure Boot: Certificate Revocation

On Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:33:18 -0700, Dave Yeo wrote:

> Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, 19 Jul 2026 13:36:56 -0700, Dave Yeo wrote:
>>
>>> This was before he got the boot. Other quotes I remember, roughly,
>>> "users don't need colour" and "users don't need expandability" in
>>> between him saying "Apple II forever"
>>
>> But the Apple II had both colour and expandability.
>
> Which was some of the reasons Jobs wanted to move away from the II
> series.

But he was partly responsible for creating that line in the first
place.

When did he change his mind and start to think of computers more as
appliances rather than actual computing machines? That would have been
after his visit to Xerox PARC.

>>> Pretty sure he was behind crippling the //GS as well as with the
>>> fastest 65816 available it was a better Mac then the Mac. Colour,
>>> expandable, lots of bug fixes when MacOS was ported to it, ADB for
>>> connectivity, though Mac got that pretty quick. Not to mention a
>>> huge catalog of software.
>>
>> Also more expensive than a Mac, from what I gather.
>
> Only due to Apple's choice.

One of the things about clean-slate designs, like the early
Macintoshes, is that they can be cheaper to make than something that
has to carry around a lot of backward-compatibility baggage. That
could have been a factor -- an unavoidable one.