> I think that is clearly open to debate. Jobs took the company in the
> direction HE wanted it to go, and has at BEST had mixed results, great
> success with the iMac, nothing special anyplace else, and he did tremendous
> damage. He killed the clone program and the alliance with IBM, and in so
> doing lost droves of developers and caused a half dozen of the most loyal
> companies that supported Apple to fail. Long term Jobs may be seen as the
> person who sent Apple to obscurity trading a loyal base of creative people
> for a fickle consumer user base.
Actually, I think killing the clones was a *good* idea. They would have
simply marginalised Apple the way all the Palm clones are now gobbling
Palm. Rather than increasing market share for all Mac-like things, it was
merely subdividing the market so that *no* company could survive. But to
be honest I did lust after one of those multiprocessor Daystars :-)
Besides, I'm seeing Apples in stores that would never have touched them
before. There's even some Mac stuff in Circuit City, and plenty in CompUSA.
And those Quicksilver G4s are pretty bloody sweet.
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Received on Thu Nov 01 2001 - 20:34:31 GMT