so you ve just bought your first personal computer, you ve brought it home from the store, you re unpacking it, and then comes the moment of truth. if you ve just bought your first personal computer, this show is for you. computers were in 1990 a disconnected device. it was a brick, right? that sat in your house and let you do amazing things that you d never been able to do before, but it was essentially a productivity tool. now that we have all these very powerful tools, we re still islands, and we re still not really connecting these people using these powerful tools together. apple was in a period of decline. steve jobs quit in kind of a temper tantrum in 1985. and he went off and started a company called next. after he left, there was a sequence of pretty boring, unimaginative corporate leadership that followed him. so why did you leave apple? well, why did i leave apple? i was asked to leave. yeah, i was asked to leave apple. i was planning on spe
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gates game plan was world domination. these guys can be taken. but the only way we re going to take them is by studying them. know what they know. do what they do. watch them, watch them, watch them. take every one of their good ideas and make it one of our good ideas. microsoft came down and essentially said to netscape, hey, you know, we can be friends, or we can be enemies. and if we re going to be friends, that s great. you ll get all the advantages of working with microsoft in a million ways, and you ll be on the home screen of a lot of computers. or we can compete. and if we compete, we ll do basically whatever is required to kill you. some people believe you have an infinite appetite for power, that you re the embodiment of a button in the 1980s that said, i want it all and you want to eat up your competitors. is that unfair? it it doesn t ring any bells with me.
and if we compete, we ll do basically whatever is required to kill you. some people believe you have an infinite appetite for power, that you re the embodiment of a button in the 1980s that said, i want it all and you want to eat up your competitors. is that unfair? it it doesn t ring any bells with me.