Hi Ray, I agree completely with your comments below, and I apologise if my reply was taken as showing arrogance or excessive pride. I can remember the dark years of Apple when Steve Jobs was ousted.
I’m very concerned as to how Apple will continue when Steve Jobs does not have the ‘Helm’. Cheers, Ronni On 25/07/2011, at 9:39 AM, Ray Forma wrote: > > The various replies to Carlo's email are starting to sound too much like > hubris to me. That's dangerous. > > My first Mac was a Mac 512, and I started with M$ Word V1 and PageMaker V1 on > that $3600 machine (= to lots of hamburgers in those days). A few years later > I started with PhotoShop V1. I have therefore been around the Mac world long > enough to have lived through the dark years when Steve Jobs was ousted and > Apple was in the hands of the Pepsi-Cola salesman John Sculley, followed by > Michael Spindler, and then Gil Amelio, with Apple producing expensive and > uninspiring product, and extremely low share prices. It was only the return > of Jobs that led to the current renaissance. If his tumour stops Steve from > contributing, will Apple remain what it is? Don't crow too much today or you > may have to eat your words in a few years time. There are still many ex-Pepsi > salesmen and their mates out there. > > On 24/07/2011, at 1:13 AM, cm <cm200...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Wamuggers, >> >> While Apple continues to grow on almost every financial measure, the Windows >> division of Microsoft declined by 2% this financial year. It's difficult not >> to feel just a little schadenfreude. :-) >> >> http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/07/21/microsoft_record_earnings_beat_street_but_windows_revenue_declines_2.html >> >> Cheers, >> Carlo > > Regards, > > Ray Forma > Mob +61 (0) 428 596938 > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
