Comments on: Apple alumni and how they went on to change the world

By: botvinnik

botvinnik — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 05:25:22 +0000

Omission, dipshit, get a library card.

By: DeRS

DeRS — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 03:41:16 +0000

It is not “at least”; everything else is right.

Sorry for the omittion of “e” in the name.

By: krquet

krquet — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 22:04:01 +0000

Three words: Connie Guglielmo.
The first word is unprintable.

By: Jeff II

Jeff II — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 21:31:23 +0000

This looks like a repeat of an article from six months ago. Lots of names left off – Daniel Kottke, Chris Espinosa, Bruce Tognazzi, and many more.

By: Really

Really — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 20:55:14 +0000

He is not an alumni *yet*

By: sculley

sculley — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 20:33:56 +0000

You could at least get his name right — it’s Sculley.

By: botvinnik

botvinnik — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 20:05:44 +0000

that is unfortunate that he is still there.

By: Ballmer's left nut

Ballmer's left nut — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 19:59:05 +0000

You left out one name on the list: John Browett, busy changing the world by demolishing the Apple store experience one brick at a time.

By: botvinnik

botvinnik — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 19:57:59 +0000

uh, you forgot to mention this,DeRS:

’s board had tolerated Sculley because he had consistently delivered on his predictions, but his luck was about to run out.

Sculley had assured the board that Apple would continue growing. The company’s stock price had neared $70 in the middle of 1992, but it was in sharp decline. By the first quarter of 1993, Apple had posted a profit of $4.6 million, a fraction of what the company had earned the year before. The stock lost almost two-thirds of its value in just a few weeks.

By: DeRS

DeRS — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 19:38:07 +0000

Steven Jobs personally participated in job interviews of more than five thousand (!) people.

And, yes, it some whom he later considered to be “mistakes” — like John Scully — went to change the world.

Scully is responsible for two of the biggest three CPU architectures in the world — ARM and PowerPC. Both used in combined quantity over billion devices. Apple under Scully found desktop RISC CPU called Acorn to scale it down to mobile and make ARM of it. And Apple went to scale down workstation class Power CPU from IBM to create desktop PowerPC architecture.

In this aspect, Steven Jobs would probably do the same thing as Scully, if he was not ousted from Apple.