Steve Perlman

Steve Perlman appears in We almost had a smartphone in the 90s. Why did it fail? through the calendar-function story at General Magic. The episode says a bounded calendar expanded first back to year one and then toward the beginning of astronomical time after feedback.

The page’s role is source-scoped: Perlman is not profiled broadly, but the calendar episode makes Feature Creep concrete. A small feature became oversized because the team lacked hard product constraints and a clear decision about what the Sony Magic Link actually needed to ship.

Connections

• General Magic and Sony Magic Link - company and product context.
• Feature Creep, Clear Customer Definition, and Constraint-Driven Product Discipline - concepts illustrated by the calendar story.