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> “Don’t worry about price, just specify the computer’s abilities,” he told the original team leader. At his first retreat with the Macintosh team, he began by writing a maxim on his whiteboard: “Don’t compromise.”

That's Steve Jobs.

The notch is a compromise. The spec Apple needed was "no notch". Forcing developers to embrace a premature design decision based on a feature that they couldn't make happen is hypocritical at best.

If Jobs had come back to life, we would have been blown away by something from Apple by now. At this point, not sure which is more likely to happen.

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https://hbr.org/2012/04/the-real-leadership-lessons-of-steve...

[caio1982]

I hope you don’t mind a slightly off-topic comment here: we should really stop using the if-steve-jobs-were-alive card; we don’t do this with other iconic tech people who have died, do we?

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Maybe we just miss him the most?