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No, Apple has a proud tradition of firing talented people, running the company into the ground, then rehiring the same people via acquisition.

• elpakal 5y ago
  Um, > running the company into the ground how so?
  • Mountain_Skies 5y ago
    By putting the former head of Pepsi in charge, letting him push out Jobs, and then putting the company in such a dire financial situation that when they rehired Jobs, he had to go to Microsoft for a bailout.
    • temp8964 5y ago
      Jobs hired that guy to be CEO.
      • ethbr0 5y ago
        Jobs hired Sculley as CEO, then disagreed with him, attempted to have the board kick him out, instead had the board turn against Jobs himself, was stripped of his roles, and quit.
  • acchow 5y ago
    They were running Apple to the ground in the 80s and then kicked Steve Jobs out in 1985. Jobs starter Next which was acquired by Apple in 1997, bringing Jobs back home. Hence gp’s comment about Apple’s long history of doing this…
    • Clubber 5y ago
      I'm not sure doing it once counts as a tradition or long history, but zinger I guess.
      • ethbr0 5y ago
        "Since 1985!"