Star Gil Amelio's Reign at Apple, and his Eventual Ouster
Linked by Thomas Hormby on Wed 17th Nov 2004 19:43 UTC
Apple 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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by Anonymous on Thu 18th Nov 2004 01:36 UTC

"I agree. I think part of the point was that Apple has not persued the busniness market(only recently do they lean that way with xserve, open directory, etc). NT is only now(XP) being pushed into the consumer market, so it is really two operating systems designed for opposing markets (NT for business/servers, OS X for desktops/artists) that are now mature enough to switch markets. An interesting approach and phenomenon to watch."

How does that make it 10 years obsolete though? Go back 10 years from '94 and we're in 1984! The Mac had just been introduced and Windows was a piece of sh!t. So how is it 10 years behind in 1994?

That seriously needs revised.

"Didn't some of Apple employee's in the mid 90's move to Microsoft after being laid off at Apple?"

Apple has had thousands of employees since the 70s. People have always come and gone, and yes, this includes Microsoft. What's the point? Apple people have founded companies like Palm, Eazel (short-lived), OQO, and many, many others I can't recall at the moment. People left MS for Apple in the 90s too. I'm curious what you were leading towards by asking this question.

"Only recently (Mac OS 9.0) do I think that Mac OS has caught up feature wise with NT, and not until Mac OS X 10.1/10.2 do I think they have beaten NT stability/performance wise."

Umm, 9.0 is hardly different from 8.1. It's differences are updates to Carbon and compatibility updates for dealing with OS X. And OS 8 came out in '97. NT wasn't very good until service pack 4, which I beleive was in '99.

"At only 1.8 % of the marketshare, Apple is still declining. The only thing that is keeping it alive is the iPod sales and the fact that no one really has a comparable product."

No, it's not. It's got more users and more developers. The only relevant factors for judging the viability of the platform. Apple does't have to compare itself to the whole PC hardware world. And even if it did, it's Dell, HP, and then Apple is right there in the mix with the Toshibas and such.