John Sculley On Steve Jobs, Apple and Microsoft

John Sculley On Steve Jobs, Apple and Microsoft(blog.archit.in)

12 points by Archit 15 years ago | 6 comments

My god this is poorly written: "he beats to a different drummer." I didn't know it was possible to mangle a cliche so thoroughly. Also, regurgitating jobs' best quotes and attributing them to "legend" is not informative in the least. Next time anybody thinks of voting a story like this up ask thyself "what would jon Gruber do?"

Archit 15 years ago | |

Well just for your info, these texts were written by Sculley himself and published on Bloomberg Businessweek as attributed in the post. I guess everybody would agree that every word in it went through a good editorial. And besides, he is using beautiful combinations of simple English words to describe Jobs. I don't find any problem anywhere.

As for the "legend" quote, I ask you to kindly read the line again. It says "What Steve Jobs said to make Pepsi executive John Sculley defect to Apple, according to legend." and it is truly written as that is what Steve Jobs said but but it has never been verified by either Steve, or Sculley himself.

So now who is being just a hater?

rbanffy 15 years ago |

Loved the “If I asked someone who had only used a personal calculator what a Macintosh should be like, they couldn’t have told me. There was no way to do consumer research on it, so I had to go and create it, and then show it to people, and say now what do you think?” quote.

Now I have something to go along with Henry Ford's one.

michaelcampbell 15 years ago | |

Create it? Didn't Xerox PARC "create it"?

Archit 15 years ago | | |

PARC just created the user interface which later greatly influenced future developments not only at Apple, but at Microsoft and Sun Microsystems too.

More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_graphical_user_i...

rbanffy 15 years ago | | |

Star is very different from Macs (and Lisas). It has things-on-a-desktop, overlapping windows and black-on-white text, but it feels completely different.