[OT] Market Share

[Rob Cozens]

Jin,et al:

>For my money, Jobs is a true visionary...

As a disgruntled HyperCard evangelist, I see him in a different light:

Steve Job's sole contribution to the technical side of computing was 
his insight as to how the mouse device under development at Xerox's 
PARC research center could drive a GUI.

Having brought this technology to the marketplace, Jobs chose to 
compete on the basis of technology when buyers had shifted focus to 
price (or were, at least,  beginning to?  Perhaps this was an early 
indicator of the coming wave of "Wal Mart mentality"?)

Too bad he totally didn't get it when it came to HyperCard or 
QuickTime Interactive. Having established Apple as a leading 
innovator in computer technology, promotion of HyperCard as Microsoft 
promoted VB and/or (as Gil Amellio [sp?] was committed to) bringing 
QTI to market would have built upon and enhanced that position.

Instead, Jobs' second coming brought us colored computers.


Rob Cozens
CCW, Serendipity Software Company

"And I, which was two fooles, do so grow three;
Who are a little wise, the best fooles bee."

from "The Triple Foole" by John Donne (1572-1631)