The simple answer is that after Jobs brought Scully in, he didn't have the power to do the right thing with the company. But its also the case that people were

The simple answer is that after Jobs brought Scully in, he didn't have the power to do the right thing with the company. But its also the case that people were a lot more ignorant of computers then than they are now. People actually believed that Macs were not as good as windows machines because that's what the teenager at the local computer store told them.