“You know,” he continued, “I’ve been thinking. How many people are going to use this Macintosh? A million? No, more than that. In a few years, I bet five million.… Well, let’s say you can shave ten seconds off of the boot time. Multiply that by five million users and that’s fifty million seconds, every single day. Over a year, that’s probably dozens of lifetimes. So if you make it boot ten seconds faster, you’ve saved over a dozen lives. That’s really worth it, don’t you think?” Over the coming months, they did manage to shave ten seconds off of the boot time. And Jobs wasn’t wrong: Those
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