Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 16th Jan 2006 12:55 UTC
When Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997, Micheal Dell was asked what he would do to fix Apple. Dell replied: "What would I do? I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders." Following Friday's news that Apple had surpassed Dell's value of $71.97 billion, Jobs wrote an email to his staff: "Team, it turned out that Michael Dell wasn't perfect at predicting the future. Based on today's stock market close, Apple is worth more than Dell. Stocks go up and down, and things may be different tomorrow, but I thought it was worth a moment of reflection today." Who said capitalism is humourless?
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2005-08-11
1) arrogance: congratulating employees for beating Dell is not arrogance; it is buliding team spirit.
True, but I think he was talking about other instances.
4)MacIntels: Apple MUST improve marketshare.
I think the grandparent post missed the mark here a bit. People aren't going to buy Macs because of the internals of the hardware; they'll buy Macs first for the software and what that can offer for getting work done (or play, or whatever), and second for the design of the hardware and nativeness of the iPod. People aren't going to say, "but I can get the same machine for cheaper as a PC!" The PC uses the same hardware, but it's an entirely different machine.