Interview with John Scully

worm eater writes "CNet news has an interesting interview with John Scully, CEO of Apple back in the day. He talks about problems and potential in the computer industry, and expresses regret over the opportunities Apple missed with some key technologies -- such as HyperCard and the Newton."

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phttttttt

[Anonymous Coward]

he ruined apple..

he's junk..

if ya dunt know why.. don't worry about it...

Re:The newton....

[NFNNMIDATA]

Ummm... the poster is joking, not being "interesting".

SPELL THE FUCKER'S NAME *CORRECTLY*

[Anonymous Coward]

I love how stupid both the posters and the mods are.

It's *Sculley", not "Scully", you fucking retards.

Michael, get Taco's cock out of your ass and proofread your goddamn stories.

Why pay for this shit?

Re:It'ScullEy

[Anonymous Coward]

Wow!
You must masturbate HEAPS!

Missed opportunities

[ctour]

Lowering the prices of Macs and porting the OS over to x86. I can buy a Dell with hyperthreading and a DVD burner for less than I can get a Powerbook, that makes me sad. If they had ported Mac OS X I would have bought it along time ago, it would have saved me all this time trying to figure out how to keep RedHat from crashing. I could have been happy...

Re:Not tech related but...

[Umrick]

Back in the day when Commodore and the Amiga still roamed... I looked at a Mac Quadra with video ability. The Apple store in Norfolk wanted just under $10,000 for a no-harddrive floppy only machine. They even came right out and told me if I payed list they'd support me, they'd haggle over price, but wouldn't offer support.

The combination of hideous behavior from dealers in the day (snobbishness?) combined with insanely high prices kept me away from Apple.

Pricing now is right in line with equivalent hardware, and I've had much better contacts with Apple Minions.

Incredible Joke

[Anonymous Coward]

WOW! I just came up with a FANTASTIC joke! Here it goes: "John Scully... Any relation to... DANA SCULLY??" HAHHAHAAAHAHHAAHAH!!! Don't ask me how I came up with it. Just a moment of pure genius I suppose.

Heh

[Anonymous Coward]

I'll take o'll Scully any day over that skanky Steve Rim Jobs