What you don't realise is that like Microsoft, we have also been running a competition to see who can make the biggest headline promoting our computers.
This was a close one to call, but Mr. Otellini has beaten out the new Pope for the prize - dinner with me and Steve tomorrow night!
Once we'd bought the GUI from PARC and started to develop it, loads of Xerox engineers started to jump ship and move to Apple - we were where the action was at. This was a hard time for most of us old timers, the PARC engineers were smelly, had facial hair and a tendency to work naked (a very confronting sight).
Acceptance of the new engineers did slowly grow though. I remember the turning point was when in a weekly meeting where we showed off the latest advances in ASCII porn - a vital part of Apple's plan to get computers into every bedroom - the PARC guys demoed a system of multiple 'windows' containing 4-bit Grayscale photorealistic porn!
It took a minute to get over the fact that they had used themselves as models, but Steve immediately saw the potential and that won us over they quickly.
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This was a close one to call, but Mr. Otellini has beaten out the new Pope for the prize - dinner with me and Steve tomorrow night!
Congratulations to all contestants.
Acceptance of the new engineers did slowly grow though. I remember the turning point was when in a weekly meeting where we showed off the latest advances in ASCII porn - a vital part of Apple's plan to get computers into every bedroom - the PARC guys demoed a system of multiple 'windows' containing 4-bit Grayscale photorealistic porn!
It took a minute to get over the fact that they had used themselves as models, but Steve immediately saw the potential and that won us over they quickly.