Re: [RUMOR] Apple for sale?

Gregory Alan Bolcer (gbolcer@elysees.ics.uci.edu)
Sat, 12 Jun 1999 18:26:42 -0700


I got it. Similar to how he sold NeXT to Apple when
he went there, he sells Pixar and Apple to Disney. Major
swindle. What do you think?

> 1. Steve Jobs has never worked for anyone in his life. I find it hard to
> believe at 45 or whatever, he suddenly wants to have a boss to answer to.
>
> 2. Steve is a hardware guy. He gets off on it.
>
> 3. Steve settled for a company that sold what, 150, 000 units in it's
> history? Apple is selling that many a week.
>
> 4. Steve still has Pixar AND has leverage with his reality spin distortion
> field to attract content providers. http://www.apple.com.quicktime
>
> 5. A merger of Apple and Sony, or Disney isn't going to upset Microsoft in
> the marketplace. So what is the point?
>
>
>
> Tim
> --
>
> If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed...
> oh wait, he does.
>
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