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Being fired at that time was the best thing that could happen both to Apple and Jobs. If it didn't happen, our business mythology today would full of tales abo

Being fired at that time was the best thing that could happen both to Apple and Jobs. If it didn't happen, our business mythology today would full of tales about Jobs, the lose cannon that destroyed apple with his megalomanic and narcissistic ego. The Steve from the Second Advent of Jobs was a dramatically improved version of him, seasoned in no small part by this "humilliation".

signatoremo 3y ago
> Being fired at that time was the best thing that could happen both to Apple and Jobs. Easy to say in hindsight. Canion, who was worshipped by the GP, also got fired by Compaq but never bounced back. Or may be that’s a testament to Jobs’s ability to learn and adapt. > the lose cannon that destroyed apple with his megalomanic and narcissistic ego. I doubt it. Apple was Jobs’s number one priority, even to the detriment of its employees, including himself. He literally worked until his death. He has been labeled many things. Apple destroyer wouldn’t be one.
- smackeyacky 3y ago
  It's true Canion got fired by the board of Compaq, but before that he ran the company such that it was the fastest to a billion in revenue in history. Nobody wants to remember the boring business IBM compatible market but not only did Compaq make the first 386 (redefining what a PC was) they also got the other manufacturers to rally around things like the EISA bus which abruptly stopped IBM's dominance of the PC standard and made a truly open market that not only swallowed PCs, but took the minicomputer industry out at as well and everything you have on your desktop and server room is still rooted in those seminal Compaq products. It was Eckhard Pfieffer who eventually screwed the pooch and put Compaq into HPs grasp. If Canion had been allowed to flesh out his strategy for lower cost PCs that might never have happened. Apple was always a 10% of the market sideshow until they made the iPhone.

signatoremo 3y ago

> Being fired at that time was the best thing that could happen both to Apple and Jobs. Easy to say in hindsight. Canion, who was worshipped by the GP, also got fired by Compaq but never bounced back. Or may be that’s a testament to Jobs’s ability to learn and adapt. > the lose cannon that destroyed apple with his megalomanic and narcissistic ego. I doubt it. Apple was Jobs’s number one priority, even to the detriment of its employees, including himself. He literally worked until his death. He has been labeled many things. Apple destroyer wouldn’t be one.

smackeyacky 3y ago
It's true Canion got fired by the board of Compaq, but before that he ran the company such that it was the fastest to a billion in revenue in history. Nobody wants to remember the boring business IBM compatible market but not only did Compaq make the first 386 (redefining what a PC was) they also got the other manufacturers to rally around things like the EISA bus which abruptly stopped IBM's dominance of the PC standard and made a truly open market that not only swallowed PCs, but took the minicomputer industry out at as well and everything you have on your desktop and server room is still rooted in those seminal Compaq products. It was Eckhard Pfieffer who eventually screwed the pooch and put Compaq into HPs grasp. If Canion had been allowed to flesh out his strategy for lower cost PCs that might never have happened. Apple was always a 10% of the market sideshow until they made the iPhone.