11 Oct
2011
11 Oct
'11
10:21 a.m.
Eric writes:
Al Kossow wrote about the 1984 ad:
This quote
from the article was especially interesting:
I continued working on Apple until 1994, when it became
clear that there wasn?t a single person left at the company
who understood or appreciated the Apple brand. IBM was
more interested in being Apple than Apple was, and I found a
better audience in Armonk than I did in Cupertino.
I certainly never was an Apple employee unlike others here.
It's interesting that Apple was away from Jobs from 1985 till 1996 and how this
overlaps some of the dates others write, or I have implied in the past.
The 1985 to 1996 period certainly had a lot of solid incremental advances in the Mac. The
PowerBook and System 7 certainly blew away anything available on a PC-clone at the time.
But at the same time there were NeXT's popping up in offices around me too.... :-)
Tim.