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...Sculley Out at Apple In a not so unexpected move, John Sculley stepped down as chairman of Apple Computer after 10 years with the company...
...Somebody who was drunk said, ‘I hate that thing,’ and just took it down,” proposed Joseph F. Medioli ’08, citing the frequent weekend parties in Currier as perfect opportunities for inebriated art thieves. Wellington W. Sculley ’08, another Currier resident, claimed to know whodunit but refused to reveal any names. “It’s like Currier’s DaVinci Code,” Schmitt said. As of yesterday, the case remained unresolved...
Among the casualties of the computer troubles was Steven Jobs, the brash co-founder of Apple who started the firm in a California garage nine years ago. After a bitter power struggle with John Sculley, his hand-picked president, Jobs left in September, taking five top employees with him to start a new computer company. Said he: "I am but 30 and want still to contribute and achieve...
...religion," recalls McKenna, "you had the job." Such absolutism helped give birth to the Mac, but it wasn't exactly conducive to building a stable corporation, and by the mid-'80s Jobs, with strong encouragement from Apple's CEO and designated grownup John Sculley, had hit the highway himself...
...vindicated Jobs must feel, playing savior at the company that canned him back in 1985, dooming him to a drifting decade at his consolation-prize start-ups, NeXT and Pixar, while Apple plateaued and then sank under John Sculley and his successors. And how grateful the Mac faithful must be that the once erratic wunderkind is back in the saddle. "When Jobs returned to Apple," says Owen Linzmayer, author of the new insider history Apple Confidential (No Starch Press; $17.95), "he said he was only coming back as an adviser, and I thought, 'Good,' because the last time...