On 4/30/02 2:20 AM, Jerry Erbesfield <jerbesfield@mindspring.com> wrote:
>I don't know about the numbers you are using but virtually everybody in the
>computer industry knew that Apple was reeling during this period, having
>marketing and sales failures after marketing and sales failures and on the
>verge of giving up the ghost. If it hadn't been for Bill Gates intervention
>and his very public support, in many areas, not just the cash, Apple almost
>certainly would have folded in those times. His support added the legitimacy
>that Apple HAD to have to survive. Only pure die hard Mac fans have disputed
>this in the past. Gates pulled out Apple just as the government pulled out
>Chrysler and just as British Leyland did NOT pull out MG (the required LBC
>content).
At the risk of extending this off topic thread, I can back up Max's
numbers. I am an Apple stockholder, and had the annual report during
those times. I'm not positive about the 4 billion number, but it was
several billion. Apple's sales at the time were higher than dozens of big
name well repected businesses as published in Time or Newsweek or
something.
I am also a Microsoft stockholder, so I am unbiased in this matter. I own
Apple computers, but in my job, I've worked on UNIX and WinNT OS machines
over the last 20 years.
Steve
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