John Carmack – Oculus VR CTO and co-creator of the classic games Doom and Quake – wrote a Facebook post yesterday reminiscing about what it was like to work with Steve Jobs, including the time Steve asked him to postpone his wedding …
Carmack had appeared on stage with Steve for a number of keynote presentations, but writes that there was one he didn’t make.
He was also one of the few people in the world to decline a phone call from Steve – albeit accidentally.
Carmack says that his appreciation for Apple started young. Wanting an Apple 2 computer was a ‘defining characteristic’ of his childhood, and his first major purchase as an adult was a NeXT workstation – using that to develop Doom.
Everyone had a chuckle about me “hanging up on Steve Jobs”
He says that one frustrating aspect of working with Steve was the Apple co-founder’s refusal to admit when he was wrong.
Some time after launch, when Doom had begun to make its cultural mark, we heard that Steve had changed his mind and would be happy to have NeXT branding on it, but that ship had sailed.
But the best aspect was Steve’s decisiveness.
The post shares some other experiences that are worth a read.
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