Ex-Apple Employee Slams Company

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Ex-Apple Employee Slams Company!

On the eve of a big reunion of Apple employees, a former Apple marketing director is blasting his former co-workers for failing to make the company a success. In an open letter to the Apple Computer History Weblog, former marketing director Michael Mace calls his ex-colleagues "the Keystone Kops of computing."

Ouch!

 

[ViRGE]

I wouldn't worry about this fellow too much; he's from the "old regime"(the pre-Jobs era), everything he says is right, but also ancient.

 

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'97 isnt too old

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

"I was trying to get people's attention, but I wasn't exaggerating," he said. "I stand by my description of how Apple worked in the late 1980s and early 1990s, 100 percent."

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In his post, Mace notes that these days Apple is a very different company from when he worked there. He writes that co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs, who returned to the company in 1996, "had to burn the old company to the ground in order to salvage something viable out of it."

"Maybe the new Apple he's building will someday have the same authority and heft as the old one," Mace writes.

 

[BoberFett]

Originally posted by: ViRGE
I wouldn't worry about this fellow too much; he's from the "old regime"(the pre-Jobs era), everything he says is right, but also ancient.

Do you mean the post-Jobs-pre-Jobs era?

 

[ViRGE]

Bah, technicalities! I wasn't born until after the Macintosh, as far as I'm concerned, there never was a post-Jobs era.

 

[wicktron]

Originally posted by: BoberFett

Originally posted by: ViRGE
I wouldn't worry about this fellow too much; he's from the "old regime"(the pre-Jobs era), everything he says is right, but also ancient.

Do you mean the post-Jobs-pre-Jobs era?

:beer::beer:

 

[BoberFett]

Originally posted by: ViRGE
Bah, technicalities! I wasn't born until after the Macintosh, as far as I'm concerned, there never was a post-Jobs era.

Good lord man, how old ARE you?

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: BoberFett

Originally posted by: ViRGE
Bah, technicalities! I wasn't born until after the Macintosh, as far as I'm concerned, there never was a post-Jobs era.

Good lord man, how old ARE you?

Apparently 19 or under