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...managerial flow chart is simple: Jonathan Ive runs the design group. Avi Tevanian runs software. Jon Rubinstein runs engineering. Tim Cook runs manufacturing. And senior vice president of worldwide sales Mitch Mandich--perhaps the company's true secret weapon--pulls it all together. Result? Apple, according to Charles Wolf, a senior analyst at Warburg, Dillon Read, has become a model of manufacturing efficiency, reducing inventory from $2 billion in early '96 to $17 million today...
...Justice didn't put Gates on display just to make him look bad. The video set up Boies' third witness, Apple senior vice president Avadis Tevanian. Apple says Microsoft threatened to withhold a key piece of software--Microsoft Office for Macintosh--unless Apple joined Microsoft's war on Netscape's Internet browser. But Gates offered Boies no help on this point. Presented with what seemed to be a smoking gun--an e-mail to Gates from Microsoft executive Don Bradford saying that "Mac Office is the perfect club" to get Apple to take actions that "significantly/materially disadvantage Netscape"--Gates claimed...
Justice's own witnesses have been more forthcoming--and have shown far better recall. Tevanian recounted a sinister moment in which an Apple executive, surprised by a Microsoft demand that his company drop a promising software application, asked, "Do you want us to knife the baby?" Yes, the Microsoft executive reportedly replied, "we're talking about knifing the baby." During Tevanian's testimony, Judge Jackson showed his first flash of anger, tearing into a Microsoft lawyer for his overly technical and at times "misleading" questioning style...
...hour video deposition shown in court Monday, the Microsoft chairman appears unable to recall anything about critical e-mail messages he sent to subordinates concerning Apple, Sun and other competitors. Antitrust prosecutors used the tapes to prep the court for Wednesday's appearance by Apple exec Avadis Tevanian, hoping that Gates's performance will cast a shadow over his corporation's motives: "A lot of this trial comes down to the perception of whether or not a monopoly played within the rules and used its market share in an appropriate way," says TIME correspondent Adam Cohen. "The video testimony hurt...
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