[JKCalhoun]

I like this story about Jobs because it also points out what a bullshitter he appears to have been.

These engineers aren't ignorant—I'm sure they saw the disconnect between the number of accumulated seconds saved and actual human lives somehow being saved. Somehow Jobs thought he could pull one over on them though with this "logic", ha ha.

[santoshalper]

Bullshitting, inspiring, and marketing are just three different words for the same thing.

[JKCalhoun]

A couple of those can be honest though?

[lostlogin]

What’s dishonest about wanting a quicker boot time?

[JKCalhoun]

Saying it "saves lives"?

[lostlogin]

Saying 'it saves life' might sound less dramatic. Using a corporate windows machine certianly feels like self harming, and if I was at a low ebb, it could potentially be fatal.

[array_key_first]

It probably doesn't save lives, except maybe in some extreme scenarios. But it does save life. Time, the most precious resource, even more precious than money.

[mannyv]

It's actually not bullshit. Saving time is worth it. People use that metric when sitting in traffic...why not use it for computer response time?

How many decades have been wasted in Windows waiting for updates?

[JKCalhoun]

Saving time is not bullshit, equating it to "saving lives" is.