Re: Wozniak vs Jobs

[regnirps@aol.com (Regnirps)]

Jeff Lemke <lemke@terra.cira.colostate.edu> wrote:

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>And then Apple tried the Lisa, but it was way too expensive and a bit
>sluggish in performance.  And that was it for Apple in business, except
>for desktop publishing.  They did find a niche there with their Macs,
>but it really was a small niche.  It was just enough to save them, I
>think.

>Jeff Lemke

You would have fit right in at Apple all right. The Lisa was not sluggish
compared to anything else that came near. I remember Boeing had an Altos and a
Lisa used for graphical presentation creation. The Lisa was bug free and easy
to use.

You make the classic mistake about the niche. Everybody starts with a niche!
They wasted their most valuable customers, the enthusiasts and early adopters.
If you could go back and compare the sophistication of those macs in DTP to the
IBM PCs in accounting you would be shocked. The PCs were slow cheezy crap with
DOS3.3 or worse and needed any army of support gurus. Remember all those people
who had business cards that said they were the company PC Wizard? MS did EXCELL
for the Mac and it was great, but Apple dropped the ball and let it go out of
play. Some early people did CAD/CAM but again there was no support from Apple.
The great Guy Kowasaki "evangelism" is bunk and anyway, was aimed at very
specific targets. Anybody with a vision that did not match the "next great
thing" got the cold showlder. And I know, I was working in Mac DTS (Developer
Technical Support) in Galactic Central, Cupertino.

Charlie Springer