> “I thought it was essentially game over for Apple,” 
    > Silverberg told me, recalling his thoughts about 
    > Windows 95 at the time. “I didn’t see how they 
    > could compete.”
    > 
    > Fortunately for us, he couldn’t have been more wrong.

I guess the author assumes the reader understands that Apple did, in fact, nearly go out of business before...

    > Two years later, Steve Jobs was back at the helm 
    > and the rest, as they say, is history!

Without Steve Jobs and an entirely new OS, it’s hard to see how Apple would have carried on building computers past 2000 or so.