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Yeah, the Apple board would never push out Steve Jobs. Well, not again.

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Exactly, they won't make the same mistake twice.

History is foremost in everyone's mind right now.

Unfortunately they haven't learned the other part of their history that got them almost bankrupted.

Care to elaborate? I don't know Apple history too well, but I thought their near-bankruptcy was just because their products weren't very good and Microsoft was dominating the PC market.

That part was about allowing Mac clones and having too long line of the products. Exactly the things Jobs abolished.

No, that part was a strategy to save themselves that didn't work so well because it was too little, too late. Not to mention that they did made a nice profit from that scheme.

You should get your facts checked. How much did Performa help? If that was part of the strategy and you claim it was working, how come, that Jobs returns, does exactly the opposite—gets rid of the clones and drastically trims product line–and Apple starts climbing up again.

Ironically, if Jobs wasn't pushed out in 1985, Apple would have gone bankrupt even faster. Jobs' perfectionism is an asset now that he's let it be ever-so-slightly compromised by market necessities, but the Mac wouldn't have been a viable platform into the 1990's if, as Steve continued to insist, they not include a hard drive or any fans. His same perfectionism over the NeXT cube (and over such details as which shade of gray to paint the factory) nearly ran NeXT into the ground.

I think Jobs learned from those failures, but the history is a lot more complicated than "Jobs gets pushed out from Apple, Apple starts floundering, Jobs comes back and Apple succeeds."

> Jobs' perfectionism is an asset now

You know that "too much of a good thing" thing, right?

I would say that's the central message of my post.

And that's a shame. Jobs is brilliant, but he needs adult supervision.

NeXT was the best thing to happen to Apple. The NeXT OS was miles ahead of anything else at the time, and it has been probably the thing that helped Apple survive. I'd go so far as to say if Jobs had of returned when he did, but Apple hadn't picked up NeXT OS, it wouldn't matter what Jobs did, Apple would be a shadow of what it is now.

I'm sure they've learnt their lesson from last time. We all know how that went. lol..

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