Re: Wozniak vs Jobs

[toddpw@ugcs.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)]

nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates) writes:

>   And this is the one at Apple who really hated Wozniak's Apple II
>and shafted it in favor of his own pet projects, trying to destroy
>just about everything that he didn't have a big say in the design of.

Don't forget that the Lisa was another project Steve didn't have a big say
in, but he didn't try to destroy it -- he let it destroy itself while forcing
the Mac out the door and saving Apple's ass big time when the PC's overtook
the Apple II.

>   Just so you know the character of the one in charge of Macintosh
>Inc, these days.

And it is that "character" that seems to be saving Apple's ass big time AGAIN.

Jobs' problem is that he promotes "next-great-thing" euphoria, and steps on
everyone's toes trying to get people whipped into a frenzy to produce that
next great thing. He totally ignores the hypocrisy of his position and does
it all over again when the next-next-great-thing comes onto the horizon,
stepping on the toes of the people he was whipping into a frenzy merely
years before.

But I'd say he's learned a little about business from the NeXT saga. However
Apple's board has been stepping up the pressure on him to either name a next
CEO or to stop calling himself an "interim" CEO.

High Tech is so entertaining these days!!

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ ugcs.caltech.edu