[stylin19a]

In the mid-late 90’s, Apple was dying until it got propped up by Bill Gates.

[MASS-2 FAC]

I work in Silicon Valley and have for many years. In the early 80’s a friend of mine set a lunch meeting with Jobs at a TGI Friday resturant. We spent about 90 minutes with him. I wanted to just get up and walk out of the meeting. The entire time, Job’s had to be the one that was speaking. Every sentence he said started with “I” or “Me”. I was so sick of him I never wanted in the same room with him again.

Don’t forget, also in the early 90’s (I don’t remember the exact time), the Apple Board fired Job’s and he went off to Palo Alto to start a competing platform to Apple. The Apple Board hired Gil Amelio to run Apple and also get their product strategy back on track. Gil couldn’t manage the engineers because they were all a bunch of whiners. They wanted Jobs back. Gil made a major mistake and brought Jobs back to consult (placate the engineers). Job’s stabbed Gil in the back and convinced the Boaard to fire Gil and he would run the company. Gil ended up as a VC in San Francisco. Steve Jobs is for Steve Jobs. From all I read in the traade press about him, he hass not changed in the past 30 years. Semper Fi

[Aquabird]

“In the mid-late 90’s, Apple was dying until it got propped up by Bill Gates.”

Not true. Microsoft was caught red-handed stealing code from Quicktime. Part of the court’s punishment was for Microsoft to buy Apple stock.

[Richard Kimball]

That’s incorrect, and has been debunked on Apple threads multiple times.

[Swordmaker]

In the mid-late 90’s, Apple was dying until it got propped up by Bill Gates.

That's false. Apple got a $150 million in a patent and copyright lawsuit settlement from Microsoft. At the time they received it, Apple was operating in the black. Although they had experienced a single quarter where they posted a $67 million dollar loss, at the time Apple received the $150 million, they had a cash reserve of almost $2 billion, were reporting profits, and received other valuable concessions from Microsoft in the settlement. This is easily documented as I have frequently done to others who have posted the same myth.

[antiRepublicrat]

In the mid-late 90’s, Apple was dying until it got propped up by Bill Gates.

Wow, battling these false rumors is like playing whack-a-mole.