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cactus Mail Starting 7/13/97

From: Scott_Cook@intuit.com (Scott Cook);
Sent at 7/10/97; 5:23:59 PM;
Re:The Ken Olson Question

I agree and credit your'94 piece with real prescience that I would have totally agreed with. There's not a role for blame; only a role for credit, great credit, to MS for changing so much so fast while already at the top of their game.

From: jfaria@hudsonet.com (Jeff Faria);
Sent at 7/13/97; 5:39:13 PM;
Re:Two Crazy Days

Actually, your trenchant analysis of the recent Amelio firing left out the most poignant factor of all, whiich occurred to me (and then I saw echoed in the Wall Street Journal). Which is: who the hell HIRES these losers? The Apple board.

From: fredb@compuserve.com (Fred Ballard);
Sent at 7/12/97; 3:07:27 PM;
Re:"A Microsoft/Apple Partnership? [Braincell Burners]"

You wrote, "There are so many braincell burners going from Mac to NT."

I could be wrong, but "braincell burners" --however irritating-- might be good for your brain. Over time, if you just keep doing what you know over and over again, you may start losing the capacity to learn new things. That doing new things that take you out of a rut, no matter how sensible or trivial, I believe builds brain cells.

Yes, I'm at... No, I'm well past what I really know about these matters. But I do remember a friend of mine telling me that he had read if you just lead off with a different foot than usual when stepping off a curb or going up or down a flight of stairs, you could increase your IQ!

Or, as I said, I could be wrong.

From: deruiter@iafrica.com (Evert de Ruiter);
Sent at 7/12/97; 10:42:21 AM;
BE OS?

Being a little out of touch with the market out here in Africa, what's the low-down on the Be OS? Is there sufficient interest from the developer community to make one take this OS seriously, or is it just more hype, built on the declining market share of Apple. I will give Mr Gassee credit that he is evangelizing his stuff in a way that Apple used to; his energy and excitement is tangible, and most of his rhetoric does not rely on too much Apple bashing. Also, he also hates Steve Jobs' guts ("For God's sake, don't compare us to Next. We want to be a better tool for developers, not to be tasteful. We don't cost $10,000. We have a floppy drive. We do not defecate on developers."

http://www.herring.com/mag/issue37/bait.html

From: steve@woz.org (Steve Wozniak);
Sent at 7/11/97; 11:55:41 PM;
Re:A Microsoft/Apple Partnership?

Consider that only about 5 companies in existence, including Apple, have their own class A network. That's what a country like France gets. Yes, Apple did have influencial people involved with the internet.

From: mrk@hippocampus.com (Michael Kaplan);
Sent at 7/11/97; 10:47:59 PM;
You got it right.

I just read your piece The Sure Road to Bankruptcy, and I just wanted to tell you that it is the most accurate, succinct, and correct interpretation of the situation with Apple that I have every read. So far, I think you are the only columnist to get it right.

Too bad the people at Apple don't get it. They didn't get it when I was there (for about four years, I started the Rosetta and QuickDraw3D projects), and they don't get it now. Or perhaps they are spending so much time trying to suck the last executive perks out of a dying company that they just don't care.

From: roy@sundahl.com (Roy Sundahl);
Sent at 7/11/97; 4:50:44 PM;
A bigger bite of the Apple.

I've been saying some of the same things that Loren Lovhaug is saying for years.

For example, Apple has allowed the printer business operate much more autonomously than any other division and look at it, a business unit that makes great products for both platforms and makes money too. They didn't think that GX would make it so they chose not to create a GX based printer. But that's because they were allowed to make good business decisions for themselves.

Smaller, focused business units work much better. I think that Apple should cut the hardware division loose. Let them make PC's. Let them make GREAT PC's! Look around at PC's. Most of them are nothing more than cheaper-faster versions of the one before. How much innovation have you seen in PC's lately? Wouldn't you want to buy an Apple PC? Plug and play might actually work! I can see Apple working closely with Microsoft to set the standards for computer all platforms.

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