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“The Mac user interface was a 10-year monopoly,” says Jobs. “Who ended up running the company? Sales guys. At the critical juncture in the late ’80s, when they
by roc 13y ago
“The Mac user interface was a 10-year monopoly,” says Jobs. “Who ended up running the company? Sales guys. At the critical juncture in the late ’80s, when they should have gone for market share, they went for profits. They made obscene profits for several years. And their products became mediocre. And then their monopoly ended with Windows 95. They behaved like a monopoly, and it came back to bite them, which always happens.”
- michaelpinto 13y agoYou know, maybe Google is the best thing that happened to Apple if you think about. If the iPhone owned the world it would make Apple very lazy which over the long run would be terrible.
- sinnerswing 13y agonic try but.. Cook+Ive+Schiller,Cue,etc. >>> Ballmer.
- scarmig 13y agoTalk about damning with faint praise.
- ZeroGravitas 13y agoNot in total profit earned they're not. He beat Steve jobs too.
- signalsignal 13y agoSteve Jobs big plan was to sell a computer for under a thousands dollars, given that macs used to cost over two thousand dollars in the "monopoly" years. And it was not only accomplished on the Mac platform when he returned to the company, but also on the mobile platform by releasing a computer less than five-hundred dollars with the iPad accomplishing Bill Gate's vision with Origami(1). 1) http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/08/origami_umpc_clunker/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/08/origami_umpc_clunker...