[net.micro] Jobs versus his child

ksb@houxs.UUCP (K.BANDES) (10/10/85)

> Personally, I wish Mr. Jobs all the luck in the world.  Apple was started to
> get computers to the people, and now they're just a business, like everyone
> else.  Too bad.

You mean it wasn't a business before Sculley took over?  Steve Jobs is
the Mother Theresa of personal computers?

Boy, are you naive.

Ken Bandes
@ AT&T IS
Holmdel, NJ
...ihnp4!houxs!ksb

kucharsk@gumby.UUCP (10/15/85)

> 
> > Personally, I wish Mr. Jobs all the luck in the world.  Apple was started to
> > get computers to the people, and now they're just a business, like everyone
> > else.  Too bad.
> 
> You mean it wasn't a business before Sculley took over?  Steve Jobs is
> the Mother Theresa of personal computers?
> 
> Boy, are you naive.
> 
> Ken Bandes
> @ AT&T IS
> Holmdel, NJ
> ...ihnp4!houxs!ksb

I'm not trying to say that Mr. Jobs is a saint, and by no means is he the
demigod many people purport him to be.  True, Apple was and always has been
a business, but it's the type of business.  Pre-Sculley Apple was more relaxed,
a quasi-family atmosphere.  Post-Sculley Apple is identical to really any other
company.  I know that for any business to stay in business long it has to act
like a business.  This fact is indsiputable.  All I'm trying to say is that
without people like Jobs around every so often, the computer world would be
a stale and boring place indeed.

I apologize if my comment about Jobs came out as something other than it was
intended to be.