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> It was all Politics. And this has trickled down since.
by m33k44 6y ago
> It was all Politics.
And this has trickled down since.
- kristopolous 6y agoSure. Apple had the Sculley/Spindler/Amelio era and Microsoft had the Ballmer era. These things are recoverable if they get addressed in time. (Then there's the SGIs, Yahoos and SUNs of the world - coasting for years into oblivion; the Radioshack/A&P Grocery model. I don't think Intel is in that camp though.)
- ksec 6y ago>Apple had the Sculley/Spindler/Amelio era and Microsoft had the Ballmer era I would actually argue those two had strategy problem rather than execution. And those two had comparatively little politics / power play involved. Intel has both, and politics.
- kristopolous 6y agoI have to disagree. The politics and power play of the kicking out of Jobs is famous, kind of the textbook case. Woz even quit over it. The mantle passing to ballmer came at the objection of many major stock holders but some tiny cabal of gates et al overrode it. For years there were protests and threats that people would sell off millions if they didn't can him. There was substantial slippage and he lost all support and bounced, like Lee Iacocca except without any glory days