Word: jobses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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And the winner is? We're so conditioned to Hollywood's underdog victories that it came as a shock last week for Commerce to whip Art, hands down and forevermore. The end came at the MacWorld Expo in Boston, with what will surely go down as one of our era...
The lesson? Art may cast a brighter light in the short term, but Commerce generally wins big in the final tally. The high-tech world had spent the past month wondering which Apple-preserving rabbit Jobs would pull from his hat during his MacWorld speech. Now we know: the plan...
The faithful's reaction to the Gates-Jobs duet was pretty much what anyone conversant with the Apple cult would have expected. "Mass suicide planned tonight in Silicon Valley," read a typical posting to the newsgroup alt.destroy.microsoft. And the MacWorld crowd booed Gates' image even more than Jobs' turncoat words...
Wall Street, by contrast, showed little concern over Apple's dire predicament, bumping the company's stock up by more than half in the days following Jobs' canny capitulation. What change in Apple's circumstances justified this startling re-evaluation? Besides buying stock, Microsoft propped up the tottering Macintosh platform...
What now? Microsoft's bear hug buys Apple a few months' breathing room, and replacing most of the company's reviled board of directors with bold-faced techies like Oracle's Larry Ellison and Intuit's Bill Campbell was a necessary--and possibly helpful--housecleaning. Now Jobs must recruit some...