Where does Quark fit into the picture? They sold a Mac-like shell program for Apple //e and //c called Catalyst at least two years before there was a Mac. I used it. Given the way it bogged down the //c I ran it on, it was more novelty than anything else. But it was an interesting glimpse of things to come.
Paul via phone > On Aug 17, 2016, at 7:04 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> On Aug 17, 2016, at 3:47 PM, Gonz <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Cool story, interesting players. Could be made into a movie! > > Sadly, all the movies made about SJ tend to focus on his personality defects > and overdramatize his capriciousness and emotionality … because that's what > sells, not the fact that he was an amazing, brilliant person with a fantastic > sense of the market and an obsessive drive that built success out of his > massive hard work, with intense personal cost. > >> The only things I find that don't fit my understanding are that Xerox >> didn't own any Apple stock but instead was given options to buy Apple >> stock in return for a peek at their PARC facilities. Plus Apple >> didn't give out dividends until the 90's then they stopped and resumed >> much much later. > > That's correct, thanks for the correction! … It was by promising Xerox that > they would become a majority player in Apple's success, and reap the > benefits, that Steve convinced them to make the investment and grant him > access. If nothing else, he was an amazing salesman. Xerox most likely made a > fortune from Apple stock before dividends were ever handed out. > > Microsoft did too … When they "loaned" Apple $150M in 1999 or 2000, it was > really a discounted stock transfer that they reaped more than double the > money they'd put in within three or four years, and (btw) saved their Mac > apps division and kept it very profitable. So MS made out on their > 'assistance' to Apple like a bandit. All power to them for that one; at least > that was above-board business dealings, not underhanded horsepucky. > > G > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
