Jim Edwards, writing for Business Insider, brings together a story from The New York Times on Apple and agism with an anecdote about the engineer who got OS X to run on a PC:

“Bertrand walks in, watches the PC boot up, and says to JK, ‘How long would it take you to get this running on a (Sony) Vaio?’ JK replies, ‘Not long’ and Bertrand says, ‘Two weeks? Three?’

“JK said more like two hours. Three hours, tops.

“Bertrand tells JK to go to Fry’s (the famous West Coast computer chain) and buy the top of the line, most expensive Vaio they have. So off JK, Max and I go to Frys. We return to Apple less than an hour later. By 7:30 that evening, the Vaio is running the Mac OS. [My husband disputes my memory of this and says that Matt Watson bought the Vaio. Maybe Matt will chime in.]

“The next morning, Steve Jobs is on a plane to Japan to meet with the President of Sony.”

The tweet at the end of the story tells it all:

Wonder if Apple will finally give me callback on that genius bar interview.

I hope Apple does give JK a call back. He’s earned it, I think. And if his skills have fallen off, my guess is, he’d be happy to train up, and more than capable.