Philippe; I do not think he would be a good CEO. No persistence, no manegament skills, all he wants to is run with the old boy network and gather glory. So give him that role, as some kind of figurehead he can serve. I feel his vision is dated, as was shown by the next fiasco. He lacks the flexibility to change horses in mid stream. Gates can change horses in mid stream, witness the browser turnaround Microsoft made in jig time. Jobs will stay with a losing horse and ignore what the market tells him. Scully and all the rest did the same, clung to the proprietary monopoly long after it was seen to be doomed, IBM also clung to it's dead horse. Apple stayed loyal to it's clients, why? to drown them all at once?. They should have changed to a cloned system way back in the mid 80's when they were doing well. They could have squashed IBM/Wintel aborning if they had gotten a critical mass of Apple fabbed goods and cloned goods under the off the shelf licence I proposed a day or so ago. Do not laugh, it was a viable option, and it may still save the day, maybe?, Wintel is far ahead, and as they say a stern chase is a long hard chase. But Apple must chase or die, and the only way to get the numbers up is open style cloning analogous to the Wintel clones, just go and buy it all from the retail store.
Bill |
