{"id":15651,"date":"2016-08-24T14:39:06","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T18:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=15651"},"modified":"2016-08-24T15:20:33","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T19:20:33","slug":"steve-jobs-on-graphics-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/24\/steve-jobs-on-graphics-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Jobs on Graphics Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/talkshow.im\/show\/xwCPFwLlSOWhJRGy\">John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/talkshow.im\/show\/xwCPFwLlSOWhJRGy\"><p>We were talking about scrolling performance, and how the iPhone 4 had to draw 4x the pixels to get 2x the resolution, and still do it smoothly. This, at a time when Android scrolling performance was just awful. I asked him how Apple could be so far ahead. He said &ldquo;John, nobody else gives a shit.&rdquo;<\/p><p>The other interesting tidbit from that conversation was that I said something to the effect of &ldquo;You guys have been working on graphics performance ever since 2001&rdquo; or something like that, alluding to Mac OS X 10.0.<\/p><p>He immediately jumped back at me with &ldquo;No, we&rsquo;ve been killing ourselves over graphics since 1989.&rdquo; Alluding to NeXTstep 1.0.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Gruber: We were talking about scrolling performance, and how the iPhone 4 had to draw 4x the pixels to get 2x the resolution, and still do it smoothly. This, at a time when Android scrolling performance was just awful. I asked him how Apple could be so far ahead. He said &ldquo;John, nobody else [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[248,295,31,396,138,178,83,173],"class_list":["post-15651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-android","tag-history","tag-ios","tag-iphone4","tag-optimization","tag-quartz","tag-retina","tag-stevejobs"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15651"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15654,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15651\/revisions\/15654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}