Re: [NTLK] Jobs rocks? (was Re: New iPod...)

From: Stainless Steel Rat (ratinox_at_peorth.gweep.net)
Date: Wed Oct 24 2001 - 11:08:55 EDT


* rminton_at_commscope.com on Wed, 24 Oct 2001
| Because at that time they had already spun the Newton off independently
| so they could focus on their core business only to bring it back and kill
| it?

Jobs did not have Apple absorb Newton, Inc., to kill Newton, he did it to
pillage it of developers for the iMac project. That Newton died in the
process was probably a bonus for him.

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