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  • How Steve Jobs saved Apple with the online Apple Store

    Lou MLou M
    macxpress said:
    Tim Cook was pretty much with Apple the entire time. He joined Apple in 1998 after meeting with Steve Jobs (at the request of Steve) and Tim was quite phenomenal at fixing Apple's inventory issue(s) and I think that still continues today. 
    "...the entire time."  Ah, youth.  Apple started in 1977.  Tim joined in '98.  Apple was successful when it started, and then it wasn't.
    More has been written about that than is known.  When Steve returned, Compaq was killing it in the PC space and Tim was the brains
    behind their logistics operations.  Steve poached him from Compaq, and the rest we know.
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  • How Apple's dramatic rise in computing flipped an OS myth

    Lou MLou M
    Windows won in part because of Microsoft's, shall we say. shrewd, dealings with IBM and other manufacturers.
    By keeping the rights to DOS, and then by getting contracts that got them paid FOR EVERY PC A MANUFACTURER MADE,
    REGARDLESS OF OS, Microsoft basically closed the market for competing Wintel OSes for PC cloners.

    Then bake in the economies of scale drive by an 'open' (thanks to COMPAQ's lead) architecture, and the explosion of
    Wintel was inevitable.  As stated, a cloning economy for MacOS was wrong from the start.  Apple needed to change the
    game, which they did starting with the iPod, then iTMS, then iMAC...and the rest is history,

    Just remember, Android may gave 95% unit share of the phone market, but Apple has 95% profit share.
    Which would you rather have?


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