Re: So, I guess that rules out hiding duff code behind animated gif's then...
They learned that lesson very very well. The one about the on-screen cursors and their animation, that is. In the book Revolution in The Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made there is an awesome story about Bill Gates visiting the Apple campus for some demo or other, Microsoft was an early and huge Mac software developer in the 80s, and Bill was absolutely baffled at how the Mac cursor could move without any flicker. Bill kept asking if there was another computer doing the demo in another room, or that they were using special dedicated hardware for it. Jobs just smiled and said, nope it's all in software. Microsoft figured it out in the end, and must have got really good at it. :P
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