Linked by Thomas Hormby on Wed 17th Nov 2004 19:43 UTC
According to many economists, Gilbert Amelio is the savior of businesses in trouble. With this in mind, the board of directors at Apple decided to appoint Gil Amelio to the board after reporting another huge loss in 1994. At the time, Michael Spindler was the head of Apple, and sales in every division. The board accepted Spindler's resignation and appointed Gil Amelio to the helm of Apple.
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I think Spindler and Amelio's near destruction of Apple was probably good for the company. It bought back Steve as a humbler visionary, with many lessons learned in failure. This I think makes for a much better and brighter future outcome for Apple then Microsoft, where Bill has never had to learn any such lessons. This shows in all his statements for the future of the PC. He still believes the PC as way too central. While this is currently true, as various functionalities of PC emerge and become standardized, these will move off the PC as they mature and become appliances, with much simpler interfaces and much better focus. Look at the MP3 player, basically a computer with hard disk , customized I/O, lcd screen, basically a pocket PC without Microsoft Office, Notepad and all the useless functions for a music player. Most of the things the general public wants will migrate to wireless phones or other wireless handheld or wireless photo frames. Then the PC will become invisible and nobody will really care about Microsoft Windows and MS Office.