We'll have fun. It's fitting that Year One began with a story of a friend, Marc Canter, who was doing something heroic. And it's equally fitting that Year Two begins with another friend having fun and winning. At a Living Videotext party in 1985 at the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, Guy Kawasaki, Apple's chief evangelist, handed me a piece of paper, a handwritten list of feature requests and bugfixes for our then-current Macintosh outliner, ThinkTank 512. I recognized the requests.
Every software product has a list of common features and fixes that every user wants.
As the product gets old the mantras get old. Coming soooon now. So I can tell when someone is really using the product. There's no way to snow the lead developer of a product you claim to be using. The note was from Jean-Louis Gassee, the new Apple executive that John Sculley had imported from Apple France.