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To: Cesare J Marini who wrote (2947)	4/27/1999 5:05:00 PM
From: soup	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5843

Apple Computer and Ben & Jerry's promote April 27 as "Free Cone Day". benjerry.com C'mon, who'd you rather have as a partner; Associated Press or Ben & Jerry?

To: Cesare J Marini who wrote (2947)	4/27/1999 9:37:00 PM
From: soup	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5843

Cesare; Much of your post comes under the heading of "we'll see." And since neither of us owns a crystal ball ... we'll see. >AAPL, on the other hand, can't seem to keep a partnership together if it were running a lemonade stand.< [Good God, Dorothy I think we're back in the AAPL thread!] OT, but to respond: Your information might be dated. AAPL has alliances/product linkups/partnerships with IBM, MOT, HWP, COMS, SNE, SUNW, INTU, ORCL, etc. Not to mention the Great Satan MSFT. Add in PIXR/DIS + George Lucas on the content creation side (plus thousands of suppliers/vendors/developers/distributors/resellers) and I think you'll find no shortage of allies. AAPL may just be evolving from the Cuba of the computing industry to its Switzerland. >Their own developers are constantly pissed at them.< At January MacWorld, Jobs announced over 1500 new apps created for the Mac since the iMac debuted. [What, and MSFT developers are in a constant state of bliss?] >The staffing merry-go-round is legendary here in Silicon Valley -- AAPL is a great provider of talent to the industry.< Again, in January, Jobs mentioned with pride that there there had been virtually no turnover at Apple in the prior 12 months. The reports I'm hearing is that overall morale and productivity are now quite high. [Maybe they didn't want to miss out the opportunity to exercise their options.] >MSFT has done everything they can to try and stamp out RNWK.< Is that "everything pre-DOJ" or "everything post-DOJ"? [I'd like to hear some specifics on this, if you can post/link.] To sum up, much of what I see is that RNWK trying to do is maintain a de facto monopoly on the seemingly limitless market for streaming video. And, in doing so, create some pricing power with which to generate revenue. However, I think the stakes are too high for RNWK's competitors, MSFT and AAPL to stay on the sidelines and let this happen. And frankly, I'm not sure which I'd be more worried about.

To: Cesare J Marini who wrote (2947)	4/27/1999 11:44:00 PM
From: soup	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5843

Off Topic>The staffing merry-go-round is legendary here in Silicon Valley -- AAPL is a great provider of talent to the industry.< To answer your point that AAPL can't retain talent, I just caught this: Steve Jobs' job for life (or the interim) via ZDNet >'The pied piper' Perhaps of equal note: Apple has ceased to be a round-robin soap opera marked more by executive intrigue and back-stabbing than by strong product development. Jobs was brought on board to replace Gil Amelio, who was ousted in July 1997 amid growing worries that the company was redemption. Since taking the helm in September of that year, Jobs has assembled and retained a strong management team that in turn has been responsible for turning out well regarded products, such as the fruity colored iMac and the Power Mac G3 line. "Steve's a pied piper. The best I've ever seen in terms of being able to pull in executive resources," said Wes Richards, a managing partner at the executive recruitment firm, Heidrick & Struggles. "People want to work for him. One of the great attributes that few executives have that ability to recruit -- which is usually dependent on the name of the company or on its brand."< dailynews.yahoo.com