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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (6927)	12/21/1997 5:42:00 PM
From: Eric Yang	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213173

>>The best place for Jobs is on the far side of the moon, where all there can give him their undivided attention and we will not hear a squeak from him.<< Bill, I don't know exactly why you're so pissy at Jobs. The stock is down right now but blaming everything on Jobs is not only unfair but also unrealistic. I simply don't think naming a new CEO guarantees that Apple's problems will suddenly go away. We've been down this road before when Amelio took the helm. Everyone seem to agree that he was the man for the job; however the result falls well short of the expectation. Amelio did take actions to turn Apple around but the execution was poor. It took much longer than we all had hoped and Apple paid dearly both in restructuring charges and in the truck load of bad publicity. Who is to say that Ed Zander can do better? No one seems to be comaplaining when AAPL shot up to 29 when Jobs negotiated with MSFT. Now people are bitching because AAPL is down near 13 for a variety of reasons. There are several reasons why AAPL is down right now few can be blamed on Jobs. The asian turmoil and Apple's lack lustered Q4 result rank 1 and 2 on my list. Having only been as the intrim CEO for the last few months I don't see how Jobs could have prevented the poor Q4 result and who can you blame for the financial troubles in asia? Once Apple can show a profitable quarter we'd be back in the 20s and possibly 30s. Jobs is a brilliant man. Few can match his ability to get things done. He has a passion for Apple. I know not all of you will agree with me but I believe the actions that Jobs took in the last few month has been in Apple's best interest. There have been many positive changes at Apple in terms of technology, marketing and production. I don't think Steve Jobs can take the credit for all of these because changes in these areas take a while to implement. But lets look at some of the things Steve has done or brought to Apple. In the few short months Steved assembled a new board, crushed PowerComputing, revamped compensation package for executives, brought executives from NeXT to develop Rhapsody, made alliance with MSFT and CompUSA, with ORCL deal still in the works, launched a new marketing campaign with G3, Think Different and AppleStore. You might not agree with any particular one or even all of the above. I don't think any of them is responsible for the drop in AAPL. Eric