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Apple executives on the Mac at 30
- Someone 13y ago"“Every company that made computers when we started the Mac, they’re all gone,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing" A later sentence makes it clear he talks of desktop PCs. A nice sound bite, but is it true? The first counterexample I thought of is Sony, but they left the market and returned, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony#Electronics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony#Electronics. HP, on the other hand, I would call a valid counterexample. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_series_80 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_series_80 certainly is PC-like, and was released in January 1980, so HP was making desktop computers when Apple "started the Mac", even if we take that to be in 1979 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh#Development_and_introduction http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh#Development_and_intro... shows that the project started in 1979) Anybody know of clearer counterexamples?