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It's not who they passed on the way up, it's the fact that they did it in 12 years starting from when their company was 60 days from bankruptcy after spending t
by mwfunk 13y ago
It's not who they passed on the way up, it's the fact that they did it in 12 years starting from when their company was 60 days from bankruptcy after spending the preceding decade in a seemingly endless death spiral with no future. Do you not remember Apple in 1996? Blackberry right now looks positively bursting with potential by comparison.
- soperj 13y agoBlackberry isn't getting a big influx of cash & business software from a competitor.
- Tyrannosaurs 13y agoAnd with good reason. Bill Gates didn't do that as some sort of goodwill gesture, he did it because he felt it was right for MS.
- BugBrother 13y agoHuh? Wasn't the money put into Apple part of a deal after Microsoft was found with source code for Quicktime getting into their own video software? The "Microsoft believes in Apple" from that might be more Job's reality distortion field. :-)
- Tyrannosaurs 13y agoOooo, I didn't know that. But going back to the original point, if that's true you could say that Apple was in a slightly better state than it might have appeared (in that it had leverage over MS that it could use that might not have been obvious at the time) but I don't think it significantly undermines the idea that Jobs did a fairly remarkable job in turning Apple around. After all, MS and many other companies had far more resources than Apple even with the settlement and none of them had the same level of success Apple enjoyed during that period (or since).