Re: Apple, Jobs, and the irony of it

[Declan MacLeod <declan_macleoid@now-munged-for-your-protection.hotmail.com>]

In article <20030817041138.21828.00000588@mb-m07.aol.com>,
 supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:

> Remember back in 1983-1984.  Steve Jobs at
> Apple and his obsession with the anti-IBM
> crusade.  Remeber the 1984 commercial with
> the hammer being thrown at "Big Brother" and
> the intro of the Mac.
> 
> Remember when Jobs pitted the Mac division
> against the Apple II division because he felt
> the Apple II represented the old school of
> thought like IBM.
> 
> Now it is 2003 and things have turned come
> back full circle.  Now IBM is the savior of
> Apple.  Funny how in the latest issue of PC
> Magazine is a two page advertisement for
> the G5 Mac extolling the virtues of the G5,
> bragging about how IBM designed it based
> on their Power4 architecture.
> 
> Hmm.  Now IBM is the good guy.
> 

Better still, I remember seeing Steve Jobs and Bill Gates together on 
stage, with Steve saying something to the effect of, "Together, Apple 
and Microsoft can beat IBM."

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