[DoodleDawg]

Only 5?

[illiac]

Business Insider is a little late with this story.....has been known for years....:)

[Gaffer]

They were the world leader in the best instrumentation, bar none. Somewhere along the line (maybe around the time that brilliant Carley Fiorina became CEO?) they decided to “frack instrumentation!” “Them ink cartridge sales on cheap-sh!t cheap printers will make us a goddam bundle!”

And so they went. Sold instrumentation to Agilent; they still sucked on their computers, but they made a bundle on HP Inkject supplies! I had one of their printers. Wirelesss, oh boy! Didn’t work with Apple at all, scanner software was bug-ridden and it was a POS...trashed it and bought an Airprint EPSON....seamless joy!

Screw HP....

[Mr. K]

And apple could have been Microsoft

but Bill Gates is The Borg

[Old North State]

One thing to remember is that Wosniak was trying to upset a world dominated by big iron computers like IBM and CDC. Even the entrepreneurs of the day saw little market for personal computing. I remember hearing Ken Olsen, founder of DEC, saying he could not imagine why anyone would want a computer in their home. He was telling the truth.

[Red Badger]

I call it ‘Big Company Syndrome’

The man who invented the photocopy process that eventually became Xerox was turned down by Eastman-Kodak, RCA, IBM and some others, basically telling him, “You’ve got a nice little trick, there, but we know what our customers want and they don’t want that.”..........

[Moonman62]

Jobs didn't say, "Oh my gosh, let's start a computer company," Wozniak recalls. "He said, "Let's start a company to build one little part — a printed circuit board, so people can assemble a computer. Let's build it for $20 and sell it for $40."

According to Obama, they didn't build anything.

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

Not to mention Xerox.