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To: RX4PROFIT who wrote (12454)	5/1/1998 8:39:00 AM
From: Phillip C. Lee	Respond to of 213177

Dennis, The entire Intuit event is not logical to me. Porting Intuit's software from PC to MAC is just a matter of months with very limited staffing no matter which language(s) they used. Why does Intuit need to expand the event to this extent? It's a mysterious one to me. At least, I think Intuit was not kind enough to have this happen and it's not an ethical exercise in the business practice. Well, I am very confident that as long as Intuit wants to release their source code of pc latest version to Apple, Apple software team (5-10 seniors) would accomplish porting in a matter of maximum of couple of months. I don't know what's in Intuit's mind and don't understand what's in Jobs thoughts on this matter. The entire event was illogical. Phil

To: RX4PROFIT who wrote (12454)	5/1/1998 9:34:00 AM
From: David Semoreson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

>>So, Jobs being the very intelligent guy that we know he is, what >>benefit could AAPL derive from allowing/staging this dilemma in the >>first place? Here is my conspiracy theory: Jobs need to convince big developers to use the Yellow Box for Mac/Rhapsody/Windows apps. If Intuit says it doesn't make enought $$$ from Mac, the developers shake their heads in agreement. Jobs then says that its Apples fault for not being "in their face"; again the other developers nod in agreement. Then if Intuit suddenly sees the light and buys into Yellow, the developers need to reconsider. On the other hand, Intuit has a ton of problems since the advent of the net. And the management was just coasting. It is more likely that they will have Apple users play guinea pigs for a new mode of net-based apps. ** David

To: RX4PROFIT who wrote (12454)	5/1/1998 7:17:00 PM
From: Linda Kaplan	Respond to of 213177

Dennis: I think that you may be assuming that Jobs engineered this as a public event. I see it differently. I think it slipped through his fingers, that he minimized the possibility that this would happen, that he was told but dismissed it, maybe got too busy and forgot it, maybe underestimated what Campbell would do. Maybe he tried to resolve it, offered a deal that Campbell rejected, and then lost his temper and walked away from the bargaining table so then Campbell announced the termination of Quicken Mac. Then Jobs had to suck up, so he took poblic responsibility for it. It probably WAS his fault but I don't believe that the fault lay with his not telling Campbell the future plans in the consumer market. No, no. Campbell knew those plans because he's on the BOD! Jobs did screw up but didn't tell the world the truth of how. Then he had to scramble to offer a big enough bribe to Campbell and boy, this cost him! What a sweet position Intuit was in, that day! All this is my reconstruction, of course, but I'm fairly confident in this reconstruction of the events. Linda