Re: Wozniak vs Jobs

[wsmith@NOSPAM.ctron.com (Will Smith)]

On 23 Mar 1998 04:58:54 GMT, toddpw@ugcs.caltech.edu (Todd P.
Whitesel) wrote:

|>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.

...let's not forget that the price for the Lisa was a bit....
..intimdating.  remember, that the Lisa was something that hadn't
been tried before (a computer with a GUI OS!), that Apple leased the
rights to (from Xerox's SmallTalk)...  its price was something in the
order of US $10,000....

|>>   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.

"seems" is the operating word here.  i think that it's BECAUSE of Jobs
that Apple is going to go away soon.  i give it five years (and i'm
being generous).

|>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.

i'll be interested to see if Jobs' association with Gates affects the
development of Rhapsody....  they're SUPPOSED to port it to intel
machines, but i fear it won't happen, lest they step on PunySquishy's
toes-- after such kindness they showed in forking over all that
cash...  <shrug>

|>But I'd say he's learned a little about business from the NeXT saga. 

hehehehe....  not for the better, i think.

|>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.

i doubt Jobs will give up his reign....

|>High Tech is so entertaining these days!!

ain't it, though?  i just wish we could have the entertainment WITHOUT
the hassle involved with Apple's cut on ][-series support....  8\

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William Smith
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