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What about OpenDoc?

Yeah.

What about it?

I don't know.

It's dead, right?

Huh?

It's dead, right?

I don't know.

I spent a lot of time working on it.

Yeah.

I'm sad.

Well, you know, let me say something that's sort of generic.

I know some of you spent a lot of time working on stuff that we put a bullet in the head of.

I apologize.

I feel your pain.

But Apple suffered for several years from lousy engineering management.

I have to say it.

And there were people that were going off in 18 different directions, doing arguably interesting things in each one of them.

Good engineers.

Lousy management.

And what happened was you look at the farm that's been created with all these different animals going in different directions, and it doesn't add up.

The total is less than the sum of the parts.

And so we had to decide what are the fundamental directions we're going in and what makes sense and what doesn't.

And there were a bunch of things that didn't.

and microcosmically they might have made sense, macrocosmically they made no sense.

And, you know, the hardest thing is, when you think about focusing, right, you think, well, focusing is saying yes,

no. Focusing is about saying no. Focusing is about saying no. And you've got to say no,

no, no, no. And when you say no, you piss off people.

And they go talk to the San Jose Mercury and they write a shitty article about you.

You know?

And it's really a pisser.

because you want to be nice.

You don't want to tell the San Jose Mercury, the person that's telling you this,

you know, just was asked to leave or this or that or this or that.

So you take the lumps.

And Apple's been taking their share of lumps for the last six months in a very unfair way.

And it's been taking them, you know, like an adult.

And I'm proud of that.

And there's more to come, I'm sure.

There's more to come.

I mean, some of these, I read these articles about some of these people that have left.

I know some of these people.

They haven't done anything in seven years.

And, you know, they leave and it's like, you know, it's like the company's going to fall apart the next day.

And so, you know, I think there'll be stories like that that come and go.

But focus is about saying no.

And the result of

that focus is going to be some really great products where the total is much greater than the sum of the parts.

And OpenDoc, I mean, I was for putting a bullet in the head of OpenDoc.

A, I didn't think it was great technology, but B, it didn't fit the rest of the world isn't going to use OpenDoc.

And I think as a container strategy, there's some stuff in the Java space that's much better.

And even the OpenDoc guys were basically trying to rewrite the whole thing in Java anyway, which was a restart.

So it didn't make sense.

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Vocabulário e dicas de fala para esta lição

Esta aula de conversação usa o vídeo “"Focusing is about saying no" - Steve Jobs”. As palavras que mais se repetem: Opendoc, focusing, sense, directions. Este vídeo tem 55 frases e 528 palavras para praticar shadowing. A fala dura 2:59. O falante fala em ritmo natural, cerca de 177 palavras por minuto, próximo de uma conversa do dia a dia. 85% das palavras estão entre as 3.000 mais comuns do inglês; vale a pena estudar o restante antes de começar.

Vocabulário principal deste vídeo

12 palavras do vídeo que vale a pena aprender, com pronúncia e significado:

Palavra	Pronúncia	Significado
bullet substantivo	/ˈbʊlɪt/	bala, projéctil
lump substantivo	/lʌmp/	pelota, saliência
suffer verbo	/ˈsʌfɚ/	sofrer
fundamental adjetivo	/ˌfʌn.dəˈmɛn.təl/	fundamental
unfair adjetivo	/ʌnˈfɛɚ/	injusto
apologize verbo	/əˈpɑləˌd͡ʒaɪz/	desculpar-se, apologizar
generic adjetivo	/dʒɪˈnɛɹ.ɪk/	genérico
container substantivo	/kənˈteɪ.nəɹ/	recipiente
arguably advérbio	/ˈɑɹɡjuəbli/	provavelmente, discutivelmente
restart verbo	/ˈɹiːˌstɑɹt/	recomeçar
lousy adjetivo	/ˈlaʊ.zi/	péssimo, horrível
rewrite verbo	/ɹiˈɹaɪt/	reescrever, reformular

Phrasal verbs que você vai ouvir

Palavra	Significado
fall apart verbo	cair aos pedaços

Gramática neste vídeo

As estruturas que o falante mais usa, com as palavras exatas do vídeo:

Estrutura	No vídeo
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — uma ação que começou antes e continua	Apple's been taking · it's been taking
Present perfect have/has + particípio passado — uma ação passada que ainda importa agora	that's been created · have left · haven't done
Voz passiva be + particípio passado — o foco está no que acontece, não em quem faz	been created · was asked

Pronúncia para ficar de olho

O falante usa 17 contrações e formas reduzidas, como didn't, don't, I'm. Diga-as na forma curta, do jeito que você ouve.

Palavras longas — acerte a sílaba tônica: fundamental /ˌfʌn.dəˈmɛn.təl/, apologize /əˈpɑləˌd͡ʒaɪz/

Sons difíceis para falantes de português:

Consoante final — sem acrescentar um “i” depois: bullet /ˈbʊlɪt/, lump /lʌmp/, generic /dʒɪˈnɛɹ.ɪk/, restart /ˈɹiːˌstɑɹt/, rewrite /ɹiˈɹaɪt/

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O que é a Técnica de Shadowing?

Shadowing é uma técnica de aprendizado de idiomas com base científica, originalmente desenvolvida para o treinamento de intérpretes profissionais. O método é simples, mas poderoso: você ouve áudio em inglês nativo e repete imediatamente em voz alta — como uma sombra seguindo o falante com 1-2 segundos de atraso. Pesquisas mostram melhora significativa na precisão da pronúncia, entonação, ritmo, sons conectados, compreensão auditiva e fluência na fala.

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