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- From: ulim@coli.uni-sb.de (Ulrich Mayring)
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- Subject: Re: Jack Tramiel
- Date: 15 Apr 1996 23:40:16 +0200
- Organization: Computational Linguistics Dept., U Saarbruecken
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- lucifer@mpx.com.au (Max Devlin) writes:
-
- >Steve Jobs was reponsible for the LISA, forerunner of the MAC. It was
- >a financial disaster, non-seller and demoralised staff working on the
- >IIe. The best thing he did was bring in Scully from Pepsi and the
- >best thing Scully did was kick out Jobs. He had no idea how to run a
- >mature Billion dollar company.
-
- Well, Steve Jobs also was responsible for the Mac, without him the Mac
- would not be here today. And he began pushing the Mac, when he realized
- the Lisa wasn't better, only twice as expensive to produce.
-
- Other than that, I'd agree with your assessment. Steve Jobs is a
- visionary, but I'm not sure about his capabilities to run a company. Then
- again, I'm not sure about mine either, so what do I know ;-)
-
- There's a good book about Jobs out there, by a guy called Jeffrey S.
- Young.
-
- Ulrich
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