Re: Folklore

["N.N. Thayer" <nnthayer@hotmail.com>]

On Oct 7, 1:37 pm, Michael Kent <mich...@syndicomm.remove.this.com>
wrote:
> limtc <thyech...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Maybe in the past he is. But don't forget he is the one who turns
> > Apple back from a dying company to a great media empire.
>
> True.  But it's also true he was the one most responsible for turning
> Apple into a dying company to start with.

While the neglect and hostility toward the Apple II was bigger than
one man, Jobs certainly appears to have been the principal.  Here was
a machine that defied his expectations year after year, eclipsing the
three consecutive flops that were financed with its ever-increasing
revenue.  It boggles the mind to think that not one executive at Apple
looked at the situation and thought, hmm, perhaps we should focus our
resources on evolving the one thing of ours that people are actually
buying.  (Or, if someone did, the momentum from Jobs et al nullified
it.)  The company's treatment of the Apple II after 1979 was an utter
disgrace, fueled by FUD regarding what consumers wanted and what the
machine's real capabilities were; folklore.org has an article on the
Apple II Mouse Card and the MousePaint GUI that makes me seethe every
time I read it.