Bill,
IBM was in so much trouble everyone thought they were going out of business, not that long ago, remember? And then they did so great for a while, and now they're flagging again. But even when IBM was thought to be failing, their PLATFORM was not, because of the clones. So Apple has a much tougher row to hoe, carrying the whole platform. But it looked like Apple was going to make it, in the past, and now it might be even harder to come back, but they are doing it. I think that Jobs has to stick with the company LONG TERM for it to work, though. He can't just give Apple two or three good quarters and waltz away. This is just too difficult a job and not too many people could do it.
Linda |
