Re: Wozniak vs Jobs

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

GR1071 (gr1071@aol.com) wrote:

: >: Hmmm, I know it will cost me an arm and a leg, but *I* think that $teve has
: >: deserved a few credits despite the fact he ripped off "our" Steve and killed
: >: the A//.

: >How do you figure? He left Apple in '85, before there was a Mac Plus even.
: >Apple IIs were still going strong then.

: The magazine prose at that point in time used the phrase that the Apple II was
: a "cash cow for the Mac." Monies made on Apple II sales were being diverted
: into Macintosh development not into the Apple II.

Where do you think any company gets money for fielding new products? Hint:
they don't pull it out of their asses, nor do they have a genie who grants
wishes for money out of nowhere. I imagine everyone but militant Apple II
users/Apple Inc. haters understand that revenue from existing products
fuel development and marketing of new products.
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