No. Convergence isn’t magic. It’s a workaday high-tech development practice. Netscape’s engineers did bug convergence. It’s also what Don and I were doing during our last few days at Eazel, right up until the morning they fired the majority of the staff. Everybody in professional software development does convergence. So, converging a bug list toward zero can’t be the elusive ingredient necessary for making excellent products. The appeal of the iPhone wasn’t the result of piling up a bunch of features early on in our project development schedule, opening the requisite number of bugs to track
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