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Subject: Re: Steve Jobs versus his child
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Date: Tue, 8-Oct-85 00:58:38 EDT
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> >> Any comments on the Steve Jobs fiasco?  Personally, I'm rooting for
> >> Jobs.  If Apple has become a big dumb company, its good employees
> >> should be ENCOURAGED to go off and form startup(s), where they can do
> >> good things for society instead of battling petty departmental
> >> politics.  In recent Apple moves (firing Jobs, hassling him afterward)
> >> bigness and dumbness are certainly evident.
> >> 
> >
> >In the category of terminal bigness, dumbness, and arrogance:  Jobs'
> >enthusiasm for closed architecture, and his insistence that the only
> >developers Apple would give the time of day to were the big ones
> >(Microsoft, Lotus, etc.), takes a bigger cake than anything done by
> >the surviving Apple management.
> >
> >According to John Sculley, the man who tossed Jobs, the next generation
> >of Apple machines will have an open architecture, and Apple will be
> >immediately working to improve its relations with, and support for,
> >third party developers.  Sounds good to me.
> 
> Ditto.  However unfortunate the circumstances were that led to Jobs' 
> dismissal, the fact remains that he attempted to target the business 
> market with the Mac without listening to what business users wanted.
> Apple management appears willing now to opening the Mac's architecture,
> a move which will certainly improve the Mac's market potential.
> 
> 
> -----
> 					Stuart Gove
> 					Boeing Computer Services
> 
> "I was a narrator for bad mimes." -- Steven Wright

Personally, I wish Mr. Jobs all the luck in the world.  Apple was started to
get computers to the people, and now they're just a business, like everyone
else.  Too bad.