And then Apple released Mac OS X and set the new standard for technological excellence and ease of use. Microsoft will be struggling to catch up for years to come.
"Gates = smart Jobs = Dumb."
It was Sculley, Spindler and Amelio who were dumb - not Jobs. Jobs was not at Apple when they made their marketing blunders which were related to pricing and quality (not backward compatibility with the Apple ][ computer as you imply).
A lot of old geezers will go to their graves running the same Wintel junk they've gotten accustomed to using for decades, but Microsoft has passed their peak of industry dominance and their marketshare is eroding. The era is Microsoft fascism is ending.
UH HUH!!!!!
Right. Things were going so well at Apple that Jobs brought in Sculley to fix what didn't need fixing.
Sculley was brought in because Apple was losing market share big time.
Jobs got in trouble because he spent all the time doing the failed LISA and then was way late bringing out the MAC.
By that time it was way too late. Most of the Apple II people had dunped their apple II machines and gone to Microsoft.
It was 5 long disasterous years after the IBM PC came out before JOBS has anything close to being as good as the PC. When after 5 long years Jobs leap frogged the PC it was way too late in the game. Gates owned the world, and there was no way to win it back.
It was the time wasted on the disasterous LISA and then the long long time to do the MAC that had the whole world tied to the PC before the MAC even came out. The MAC was great but there was no way to amortize a MAC over a PC. Anyone with any business sense should have been able to see that. Jobs is just a poor buisness man compared to Gates.
From 1981 until 1986 Jobs sat with one thumb up his a$$ and the other one in his mouth. The only thing he ever did was change hands.
The Mac OS X was the result of a failure to do an original operating systme. OS X is just one more variant of UNIX based on the old Berkley code. It is not as good as LINUX. And when it was finally released it was just one more UNIX that was nothing special.
The Mac has a tiny share of the market. Mac people are like Liberarians trying to tell the world they are politically important. The MAC and its UNIX clone is yesterday.
Gates is paying many fortunes, He has the best there is... Men like Anders Hejlsburg are doing longhorn. They are coding it with an object oriented paradym that leaves the procedural UNIX in the dust. There is no way for Apple and its depleated inferior brain trust to be in the game tomorrow.
Apple started to lose the game in 1981 when they took years to equal the IBM PC.... It has been all down hill in sales since then.
The Big difference between GAtes and Jobs is both makes dicisions that ar wrong. As soon as it can be seen to be wrong Gates changes paths. Jobs sticks with wrong decisions. JOBS has way too much eqo to win. Jobs is a perfect example of the way companies go from 85 to 3 percent of the market.