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...demand for the new line and failing to produce enough to meet orders. Apple expected growth for its computers to peak at 23% a year, a few points higher than the industry average for computers; demand growth, however, turned out to be a stunning 35%, says Tim Bajarin, a Silicon Valley computer marketing consultant. Says he: "Demand for Macintoshes is running higher than it's ever been." The company now has $1 billion worth of unfilled orders. And Wall Street doesn't like that. Nor do customers...
...Doubtless the Russian fixation on rank impressed him; in any case, he began to insist quite early in his life that he was no prosaic Yankee, but a Southern gentleman from Baltimore, Maryland. He enrolled at West Point, but was flunked in 1854 for his cluelessness about chemistry. "Had silicon been a gas," he would say later, "I would have been a major-general...
Young and his second wife Pegi live in soothing isolation on a ranch near San Francisco, a few miles from Silicon Valley. Their 16-year-old son Ben has cerebral palsy, and Young, who is fascinated by technology, has started a company that makes devices for the disabled, as well as high-tech toys. The firm is working on an improved wheelchair that Young helped design. Ben tests every device his dad's company makes. Says Young proudly: "He's a cool...
...editor Joshua Quittner, who contributed the accompanying essay. Together they form a cybersavvy team that has shaped dozens of Time stories on information technology and the computer culture. "I don't know what we'd do without Dave Jackson," says Elmer-DeWitt. "He's our eyes and ears in Silicon Valley...
...fact, Microsoft's business practices are not that far out of line with most of Silicon Valley's. "I don't think they have done things we wouldn't do ourselves, or that the people who have complained the most wouldn't do either," says Gordon Eubanks, chairman of the Symantec software company, based in Cupertino, California. Even companies that have submitted evidence against Microsoft are deeply ambivalent about inviting the Justice Department to police the industry...