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To: research1234 who wrote (3135)	1/3/2022 10:37:14 AM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10623

The problems we are discussing are intertwined. If Jobs had not been such a control freak and so greedy and opened up the Apple ecosystem, then someone would have made Apple a business friendly machine. In the late '80s I had a stint as a buy side IT product strategist. My job was to evaluate various computers and write position papers on what the future holds for them so that upper management could make the right bets. Every company was clamouring to have me look at their system. Even Jobs' next gig, the NeXT sent me a system to play with...ehm evaluate <g>. And in those days you had to be a university to get your hands on one. My point is that I didn't just grow up with the IT industry, I was immersed in it both personally and professionally. Various business and design decisions affected their futures in profound ways as companies struggled to balance between taking a smaller piece of a bigger pie or a bigger piece of a smaller pie. In hindsight, the best model would have been being a "benign dictator" who could set the standard but was not too greedy and allowed others to flourish. This is what Google did with Android. It is what Apple could have done, except that it was not in Jobs' DNA to do such a thing.